Tommy Hill

I grew up in Nashville . My father Tommy Hill Sr., (member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame), was a songwriter and an independent record producer, who worked with the Starday , Stop, and Gusto record labels. This gave me the opportunity to work as a studio rhythm guitarist on sessions with country greats like Red Sovine , Little Jimmy Dickens, Del Reeves, Dottie West, The Coasters, and Johnny Bush, just to name a few. I took off on my own, working the Holiday Inn and Ramada Inn circuit with various bands, playing Top 40 rock and roll. I had an original song cut by The Coasters and another song released in Canada .

Also, I am very proud of my uncle, Carl Smith , for being elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. He was married to my beautiful aunt, Goldie Hill, a Decca Recording artist in her own right.

In June of 2007, I started working on my own classic country CD of songs from my heroes in country musc; Hank Thompson, Roger Miller, Ray Price, and more. I had some really good musicians to work with me on this CD and I’m very proud of how things turned out. This CD is called, My Roots Are Showing , and is in honor of the great music I grew up with as a kid in Nashville.

In late Jan 2007, I finished working on a rockabilly solo CD called, Rough Mix It includes 7 of my own songs that I’d written in the boogie/swing/country vein and also includes a few other tunes that have special meaning for me (meaning I didn’t have enough original songs to fill the CD....heh). I hope you find something on it that you like. From the fall of 2005 to the summer of 2006, I really had fun playing boogie piano with Atomic Boogie in Atlanta, a Rockabilly, Jump Blues, Swing Band. Good guys, good people, and a fun time band.

Thanks for dropping by. Hope to hear from you sometime.