Hickory Hill Recordings

		The First Fifteen Years - (Released November, 1995) Old and Gray Glendale Train The James Boys and Me No Longer A Sweetheart Of Mine There She Goes Dancing Kentucky Home If I Lose Black Mountain Rag Road With No End Coyote Night Amie Angel Band Bad Company Old Man At The Mill Gertha Pickin' For My Family It's About Time Dream Of A Miners Child Simple Love Song Through The Morning, Through The Night Hoedown Lowlands Little Old Lady
Hickory Hill’s early years are chronicled here with 23 songs chosen from their first four recordings. Partial reviews from those albums, Coyote Night, Special Historical Edition, It’s About Time and Reminiscin’ follow below.

"Hickory Hill remains one of the great show bands in bluegrass music…some fabulous material, perfectly suited for their approach" -- Bluegrass Unlimited

"...chock full of creative lyrics and instrumental high points." -- Bluegrass, Canada

"Hickory Hill is a cross between Poco gone grass and a Dirt Band that bathes, with a splash of Bill Monroe...if Poco's 'Good Feelin' To Know' made you smile, this one will too." -- Dirty Linen

Return to Recordings

Following are summaries and reviews from Hickory Hill’s first four albums, now out of print.

Old And Gray     If You're Ever Gonna Love Me     Through The Morning, Through The Night
S. T. Breakdown     Gertha     Just A Little Talk With Jesus     One Bullet Hunt

Ole Slewfoot     Song For The Life     If I Lose     Angel Band
Train Leaves Here This Morning     Cripple Creek / Old Joe Clark     Rindercella

"I've rarely heard a band that could project themselves in their music as well as these boys. Hickory Hill has found an identity and have expressed it well here..." -- Bluegrass Unlimited.

Hoedown     Simple Love Song     Kentucky Home     Mare (Take Me Home)     Bad Company

Glendale Train     There She Goes Dancing     Salt Creek     Road With No End     It's About Time

"Six of the ten selections are original, previously unrecorded material... clean, clear, full sound… If all the albums produced sounded like this, bluegrass would be at the top of the record charts." -- Bluegrass Newsletter

I Wish You Knew     Pickin' For My Family     The Christian Life     Hillbilly Fiddle     Amie
Why You Been Gone So Long     Bleepin' Sleauty

Huckleberry Hornpipe     Lowlands     James Boys And Me     Will You Miss Me
Thank You Lord Medley     Little Old Lady     Them Poems

"Hickory Hill, one of Texas' most popular bluegrass groups, gives us another bluegrass gem with this, their second album, and they do it by taking the fine sound and infectious humor they bring to the stage, and somehow transfer it to the record, a feat almost impossible to do in bluegrass music." -- " Houston Chronicle.

"...they play and sing well, effectively communicating a band identity, and that makes them a recognizable unit instead of just another bunch of pickers...it's a well conceived, well played, and well produced album..." -- Bluegrass Unlimited.

Coyote Night     No Longer A Sweetheart     Good Morning Country Rain     Midnight Moonlight
Old Time Feeling     Black Mountain Rag

These Old Blues     Old Man At The Mill     Love Of The Mountains     Dream Of A Miner's Child
Bluegrass Breakdown     Tears In Peaceful Valley     Will You Be Ready To Go Home

"Coyote Night” proves to be an adeptly produced effort showcasing some first-rate musical talent that readily blends into one common purpose...a convincing debut album…Hickory Hill is going to be around for quite a while." -- Bluegrass Unlimited.

"Something that is difficult, if not impossible, to capture on record is a group's personality on stage, their rapport with an audience. Hickory Hill can lull you with their...East Texas good ol' boys demeanor and then blow you out of your seat with their music. You'll have to go and see them in person for that." -- Bluegrass Newsletter.