Wade Hill Radio Land

Wade Hill - Radio Land

The Girl From West Virginia

Requiem For Sally Bales

The Day Sally Died

Back In The USA

Foxfire

1957 Coffeyville

Reunion In Hazard

As a banjo journeyman, ink, marker, and collage artist, raw poet and songwriter, and DIY TV star, Wade Hill has spent forty years mastering categories and genres in order to defy them, always with cool force. The son of a play director and dentist, Wade took on bluegrass music with a theatrical flair and rough bite. Before he was twenty years old, Wade, as teen prodigy, had recorded four LPs, launched a stage show at the Capitol Theater in Maryville, hosted his own "Saturday Morning Jamboree" Knoxville TV program, and become a mainstay on the growing bluegrass festival circuit, all with his expert group the Bluegrass Professionals. Moving through East Tennessee's now legendary country music and barn dance scene of the 1970s, Wade and band were denizens on stage and in the studios of all of the top spots, whether Ciderville, the Red Speeks and Big Valley Barn shows, the Tennessee Valley Barn Dance, the Cas Walker Show, the Bonnie Lou and Buster Show, or Jim Clayton's Startime. In his twenties and beyond, Wade stretched out into the wider professional music world, becoming a trusted and well-traveled sideman with everyone from Jimmy Martin, to Jimmy Arnold, to Webb Pierce, to Carl and Pearl Butler, to Clyde and Marie Denny, and many more. Settled back in Knoxville for the past decade, Wade has recorded feverishly, anthologizing and reinterpreting his older work and crafting his own new, original Americana soundscape.

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