BILL KIRCHEN

Grammy nominated guitarist, singer and songwriter Bill Kirchen is one of the fortunate few who can step on any stage, play those trademark licks which drove the seminal Commander Cody classic Hot Rod Lincoln into the Top Ten nationwide, and elicit instant recognition. Named a “Titan of the Telecaster” by Guitar Player Magazine, he celebrates a musical tradition that embraces rock ‘n’ roll, blues and bluegrass, Texas Western swing and California honkytonk. Nick Lowe describes Bill as “... a devastating culmination of the elegant and funky… a really sensational musician, with enormous depth.”

Bill received his Grammy nomination in 2001. A winner of multiple Wammies over the years, in 2002 he was one of three artists inducted into the Washington D.C. Area Music Association Hall of Fame along with Dave Grohl and John Philip Sousa.

Bill is an architect of what is now known as Roots Rock ‘n’ Roll and Americana, and still continues to be one of its most active proponents, playing, writing and performing throughout the world. In demand on the lecture circuit, he has spoken at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as part of the “Electrified, Amplified and Deified - The Electric Guitar” exhibition and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He was interviewed on the national TV special “Yesterday and Today: Honky Tonk & Western Swing” at the Broken Spoke in Austin, TX, where he performed along with Hank Thompson, Doug Sahm, Don Walser and more.

Bill was a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Elvis Presley in Memphis and currently finds time to lead workshops and instruct at Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch and the Augusta Heritage Center.

Justly famous for his indelible Telecaster sound, Bill Kirchen has been everywhere over the span of a 40-plus-year career: he was a founding member of the legendary Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen; he released eight critically acclaimed solo albums; he toured internationally with Nick Lowe and has performed with Doug Sahm, Gene Vincent, Elvis Costello, Dan Hicks, Emmylou Harris, Bruce Hornsby and Link Wray.

01 - [1993] Tombstone Every Mile (UK)

First solo album, Tombstone Every Mile, for Elvis Costello's Demon label, later leased to Blacktop Records, 1994.

01. Bottle Baby Boogie
02. Tombstone Every Mile
03. Rockabilly Funeral
04. Fool On A Stool
05. One Woman Man
06. Lovin' Cajun Style
07. Think It Over
08. Lover's Rock
09. Cool Lovin' Baby
10. Secrets Of Love
11. Hole In My Pirogue
12. Tell Me The Reason
13. Without Love (with Nick Lowe)
14. No One To Talk To (But The Blues)
15. All Tore Up

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02 - [1994] Tombstone Every Mile (Canada)

Canadian release of the album with only 13 tracks.

01. Bottle Baby Boogie
02. Tombstone Every Mile
03. Rockabilly Funeral
04. Fool On A Stool
05. One Woman Man
06. Lovin' Cajun Style
07. Think It Over
08. Lover's Rock
09. Cool Lovin' Baby
10. Secrets Of Love
11. Tell Me The Reason
12. Without Love (with Nick Lowe)
13. All Tore Up

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03 - [1996] Have Love, Will Travel

01. Womb To The Tomb
02. Which Came First
03. Don't Be True
04. Have Love Will Travel
05. High Snakes In Deep Water
06. Swingin' Teardrops
07. Who's That Who
08. Red Cajun Girl
09. I Heard The Highway
10. Nitro Express
11. The Heart Is A Muscle
12. What's The Matter With The Mill
13. Swing Fever
14. I Don't Like To Work

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04 - [1997] Hot Rod Lincoln Live!

01. Big Mack's Off The Blocks
02. Looking At The World Through A Windshield
03. Too Much Fun
04. Hot Rod Lincoln
05. Secrets Of Love
06. Cold Country Blues
07. Sometimes I Think
08. Swing Fever
09. Womb To The Tomb
10. Tell Me The Reason
11. Rockin' Over China
12. The Finger

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05 - [1999] Raise A Ruckus

01 - Girlfriend
02 - Fly On Your Jacket
03 - Raise A Ruckus
04 - Man In The Bottom Of The Well
05 - Little Bitty Record
06 - Big Hat-No Cattle
07 - Flip Flop
08 - Dreamworld
09 - Let The Fire Burn Out
10 - She's A Yum Yum
11 - My Heart Has A Mind Of Its Own
12 - Livin' Dangerously
13 - True Love's The Treasure
14 - Interstate

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06 - [2001] Tied To The Wheel

01. Truck Stop At The End Of The World
02. Quit Feelin' Sorry For Yourself
03. Roll Truck Roll
04. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
05. One More Hour Of Blues
06. Tryin' To Turn Her Memory Off
07. Hillbilly Truck Driving Man
08. Tied To The Wheel
09. Prison Band
10. Poultry In Motion
11. How Mountain Girls Can Love
12. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

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07 - [2002] Dieselbilly Road Trip

01. Hollywood City
02. Pittsburgh Steelers
03. Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
04. California Cotton Fields
05. Streets Of Baltimore
06. The Promised Land
07. Buckaroo
08. Detroit Diesel
09. Midnight In Memphis
10. Sleepwalk
11. Eight More Miles To Louisville
12. Guitar Boogie Shuffle

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08 - [2006] Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods

01. Hammer Of The Honky-Tonk Gods
02. Rocks Into Sand
03. Get A Little Goner
04. Skid Row In My Mind
05. Working Man
06. Soul Cruisin'
07. Truth Be Told
08. Devil With The Blue Dress
09. One More Day
10. Heart Of Gold
11. If It's Really Got To Be This Way

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09 - [2010] Word To The Wise

01. Bump Wood
02. Shelly's Winter Love (with Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack)
03. Man In The Bottom Of The Well (with Elvis Costello)
04. I Don't Work That Cheap (with Commander Cody on piano)
05. Time Will Tell The Story
06. Husbands And Wives (with Chris O'Connell)
07. Open Range (with Kevin ''Blackie'' Farrell)
08. Arkansas Diamond
09. Word To The Wise (with Dan Hicks)
10. Ain't Got Time For The Blues (with Maria Muldaur)
11. Valley Of The Moon (with Norton Buffalo on harmonica)

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10 - [2013] Seeds And Stems

01. Too Much Fun
02. Tell Me The Reason
03. Down To Seeds And Stems Again
04. Semi Truck
05. Rockabilly Funeral
06. Womb To The Tomb
07. Flip Flop
08. Swing Fever
09. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
10. Truckstop At The End Of The World
11. Mama Hated Diesels
12. Hot Rod Lincoln
13. Talkin' About Chicken

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