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Hillbilly Vegas
12+ albums
country rockrock
about
For musicians…band years are pretty much like dog years. This stuff ages a mind and body. For the boys in Hillbilly Vegas their ‘band years’ age is about 150. In reality as a band they’ve only been out there trying to make a name for themselves in the beer joints and on just about every flatbed from Texas to Oklahoma to somewhere deep, deep in the woods of Arkansas for almost 3 years now. It wasn’t supposed to be that way though. Hillbilly Vegas started as a songwriting/jam project for Steve Harris and Johnny ‘Ringo’ Reed. The boys never had any intention of starting another band. They just wanted to bring their old music buddies together to have a good time. But…the truth is you can’t put a bunch of musicians in a room without them deciding to start a band. That’s what happened here too and it’s been a non-stop roller coaster ride since that first night at Johnny’s home studio. That home studio eventually became so much more then just a place to rehearse. Every song, every idea and every experience the guys shared as a band and friends happened at Johnny’s place. Sometimes it was just good cookin’ and a good conversation that happened at Johnny’s. Sometimes some of the band’s best songs were written after one of those good meals and conversations. A song like “I Already Know” that tells the story of one of the guy’s hard breakups happened that way. Johnny’s little place way out in the middle of nowhere, Oklahoma became Ringo Manor…the band’s home. In 2009 that hard work
