Anne Hills

OK, if you'd like to know my professional biography and see the more detailed discography you can visit my website at www.annehills.com.This summer (2007) I have released a CD called "Ef You Don't Watch Out!" which features 10 poems by James Whitcomb Riley (the Victorian Hoosier poet) set to song. There's a lot of frailing banjo, guitar, and piano - simple parlor style appropriate to the era in which Riley wrote. Some beautiful fiddle work by Sara Milanovich, back-up vocals by Cindy Mangsen and Priscilla Herdman, as well as, bass, mandolin, lead guitar by co-producer Scott Petito.My 2006 released CD, "Beauty Attends:The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley", was a dream come true for me. I have been in love with Opal's writing since I first read Benjamin Hoff's "The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow" and I hope these songs will introduce more people to Opal's worldview and Hoff's biography (which includes the diary). Michael Smith's melodies are challenging, distinct , and with Scott Petito's arrangements lead the heart toward the lyric, and so, back to 6-year-old Opal's wisdom. That is my hope, of course.