Tim Bluhm (born July 22, 1970) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the primary singer and guitarist for rock band The Mother Hips. He has recorded as part of the duos Skinny Singers (with Jackie Greene), Ball-Point Birds (with Greg Loiacono), and Tim and Nicki Bluhm (with Nicki Bluhm), and has been a member of Rhythm Devils, Brokedown in Bakersfield, and Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers. He has also performed and released solo material. Born and raised in southern California, Bluhm met the other three original members of The Mother Hips, Greg Loiacono, Isaac Parsons and Mike Wofchuck, while at California State University, Chico. Bluhm's music, as a solo artist as well as with the Hips, his duo project Skinny Singers with Jackie Greene, fronting The Rhythm Devils (featuring The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann), Ball-Point Birds (duo with Hips co-founder Greg Loiacono), and in his wife's band Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers, is a mix of classic rock, Americana, California country, folk, psychedelic blues, and power-pop. Bluhm grew up listening to eight-track tapes of Leon Russell, Jim Croce, Anne Murray, and The Beach Boys. He got his first taste of singing in the church choir and it was Neil Young's Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere that inspired him to pick up a guitar. Captivated at an early age, Bluhm has always been connected to music's spiritual capacity. Although The Mother Hips were courted by major labels and signed to Ri

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