This song had the perfect producer…Tom Petty. In 2017 this album (Bidn’ My Time) by Chris Hillman was released. CB sent me a link to this song and I liked the jangle and the song. The next day I listened to it some more and it suddenly dawned on me…I’ve heard this song before.
After I looked at the title again I knew I’d heard it. It was a Byrd song written by Gene Clark. It was a B-side on the single with Turn, Turn, Turn. Clark was an excellent songwriter and his songs included Eight Miles High and I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better.
Chris Hillman joined the Byrds as the bass guitarist without ever having played the instrument. With his background in country and folk music, he picked up playing the bass with no problem. He brought country music to the Byrds. After David Crosby quit…Gram Parsons was recruited and Hillman found another member to share his love of country music with. They made the Sweetheart of the Rodeo album in 1968 which still serves as inspiration for musicians.
Parsons quit the Bryds after that album and Hillman brought in the great guitarist Clarence White to replace Gram. Soon after that Hillman quit and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons.
In the 1980s, Hillman formed The Desert Rose Band which had some success in the Country charts.
Hillman thought he was done making albums but Tom Petty and Desert Rose Band remember Herb Pedersen had other ideas. Pedersen convinced Hillman to make one more album and Tom Petty wanted to produce it. The album is very rootsy and also contains the Byrds sound. A couple of Byrds help with out with the album…David Crosby and Roger McGuinn. Petty brought Heartbreakers Benmont Tench, Steve Ferrone, and Mike Campbell.
I listened to this album and it’s a combination of jangle, bluegrass, country rock, and folk. It’s a nice melding of all of these styles.
I’m going to add this video which is a very short story about the album.
She Don’t Care About Time
Hallways and staircases everyday to climb
To go up to my white walled room out on the end of time
Where I can be with my love for she is all that is mine
And she’ll always be there, my love don’t care about time
I laugh with her, cry with her, hold her close she is mine
The way she tells me of her love and never is she trying
She don’t have to be assured of many good things to find
And she’ll always be there, my love don’t care about time
Her eyes are dark and deep with love, her hair hangs long and fine
She walks with ease and all she sees is never wrong or right
And with her arms around me tight I see her all in my mind
And she’ll always be there my love don’t care about time
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Very pleasant.
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I think you nailed it with your assessment and these are all names I like. Was not familiar with this album and I’ll be sure to queue it up.
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Quite likable. It definitely has a bit of a Petty sound coming through but then again much of Tom’s catalog was sounding quite Byrds-y so that seems appropriate.
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Yes that is why I said they had the perfect producer for this. I think it’s cool that Crosby and McGuinn helped out.
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Hillman is just smooth. He was there at the beginning of this style and he hasn’t lost it. Petty knew it.
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I appreciate that link CB. It took me to the next day to realize…hey I know this! I dig B sides and this one was a great one originally and Hillman did a better job of it than the original to me. It’s like you said…smoother and more focused.
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Hillman in my opinion is a hidden treasure of a piece of American music. Quietly flying under the radar making great music. For a long time.
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Well when you get Petty asking…..you do it! Man I miss that guy…
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I do also Deke…I still don’t think of him as gone.
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One of the Byrds’ best IMO, up there with the big hits. This is pretty faithful to the original- has the Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring solo.
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I liked the song also…I knew I knew it but couldn’t place it at first. I want to check out more of the later Clark songs.
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I went right through his solo catalogue a few years back. White Light and No Other are his best albums IMO.
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Definitely a Byrdy flavor. I hear a classical sampling in there (not sure if Bach or Beethoven) that is just plain sweet. Can’t help but notice that all the line endings are long “i” but it doesn’t sound overbearing.
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I listen to his music sometimes ever since I saw Clockwork Orange. I’ll listen at work mostly.
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I heard this melody of Bach’s “Ode to Joy” too in one of his guitar riffs.
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Glad you heard it in there also, Jeff.
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I think they did a good job of it….I like The Byrds version also but this one is a little clearer.
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Do we know about the Desert Rose Band here? Their take of John Hiatt’s She Don’t Love Nobody is so good… And John Jorgeson? So great!!!
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This weekend I happened across Hillman talking about his career in a video on YouTube. I’d post it but it is more than an hour in length and that would blow Max’s blog up. Hillman is very polite and there is a lot of stuff I didn’t know, such as Tom Petty and Roger McGuinn were very good friends. It makes sense, and I’m not surprised, but the video has all sorts of trivia worth the hour investment.
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I read where Roger first found out about Tom as he was riding down the road and heard American Girl…it sounded so much like Roger.
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