Steve Hill

In the fall of 2016 I went to California with some friends to attend the Desert Trip Festival in Coachella. I had an amazing time while I was there and decided to hang around L.A. a little longer. After a couple of days in the city I felt an urge to move and a need to explore.

I rented a camper van and criss-crossed the state for about 3 weeks, bought a guitar and wrote some tunes in it at night while camping in Death Valley, Big Sur, Yosemite, San Rafael and many other wild places.

These are the songs I wrote, along with a few vamped-up oldies of mine that fit right in as if they had been written on the same trip.

Fast forward four years. As I write this, the world has become a very different place. Somehow these songs make more sense to me lately, a journey through my state of mind at the time, and maybe a foretelling of the way I feel now.

I hope they can bring you a little joy and comfort in these troubled times.

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News

November 9, 2020 Desert Trip – Press Release

Multi-Award Winning Blues Man Steve Hill Goes Off-Road in New & Eighth Album, Desert Trip Adding to His Millions+ of Streams Across Platforms, New Full-Length & Single “Rain” Available Now! Watch “Rain” via YouTube Here One of Canada’s most prolific guitarists Steve Hill is taking audiences along on his Desert Trip with the release of...

October 10, 2018 Canadian Beats Interview

Steve Hill‘s first live album has been two decades in the making – this year he released The One Man Blues Rock Band – comprised of 14 rousing rock, blues, and country blends. Hill’s career spans over two decades. The Juno award-winning rocker has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music,...

May 15, 2018 Steve Hill New Album Reviews

Liverpool Sound And Vision – Steve Hill – Citadel St Helens gig review (Sunday May 13, 2018) “It’s one thing to listen to Canada’s Steve Hill via the medium in which he strides. It’s quite another to witness it in action, to see the Blues played with deftness and spirit, the smile and the stare...

May 15, 2018 Another 5-star review for Steve Hill’s new album

“The One Man Blues Rock Band. Recorded live in La Chapelle, Quebec, if ever there’s a title that says exactly what the tin contains, then this is surely it. A powerhouse CD crammed to the gills with gut wrenching style.” Read full review »

May 9, 2018 Metal Discovery – Album review

“This album would be a pretty solid one if it was released by a band, but for one man to produce a show of the quality which is conveyed via this recording is nothing short of astounding.” Read full review »

May 7, 2018 Rock and Blues Muse – Album review

Out Friday May 11th, The One-Man Blues Rock Band is the first live album from multi-instrumentalist Steve Hill. The 14-track live recording was captured at La Chapelle, Quebec in November of last year at one of Hill’s headline shows. Punctuated by some impressive support slots, Hill’s headline roadshow has taken the French Canadian virtuoso all...

May 7, 2018 Rawramp : Album review

STEVE HILL, the one-man blues rock machine, will release his new 14-track live album “The One-Man Blues Rock Band” on Manhaton Records in the UK on Friday 11th May 2018. To support the release, Steve will tour the UK in May supporting King King and Danny Bryant. Steve is the true definition of a one-man-band:...

May 7, 2018 Fabrications HD – Album review

Canadian musician Steve Hill could well be in the running to add another award to the JUNO and Maple Blues awards he already owns – for the most accurate, self-explanatory and straight to the musical point album title of the year. That said while The One Man Blues Rock Band tells you all you need...

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Biography

Widely considered one of Canada’s most prolific guitarists, Steve Hill has never stopped delivering wildly ambitious performances and satisfying original albums. Heralded wherever he goes, the guitarist, singer, drummer, harmonica player, songwriter and accomplished producer is a musical force to be reckoned with.

Forget the fact that he has won a Juno award, played concertos with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, won enough Blues awards to fill a bathtub and walked the boards of too many stages to count throughout his 27-year career, when you stop to hear his music you know you’re listening to the real deal.

A guitar stylist with a wide musical vocabulary, he has performed over 2,500 concerts in many configurations. For the past 8 years he has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe in support of his critically acclaimed Solo Recordings albums trilogy and one man band show. Steve got his start as an 18-year-old sideman in 1993 and released his first album in 1997. Since then he has shared the stage with many of his heroes, like Ray Charles, B.B. King and ZZ Top, to name a few, and has played at some of Canada’s biggest music festivals. With 11 albums of original songs to his name, he has explored everything from Rock, Country, Folk, and all kinds of music, while continuing to fuse it all with his first love, the Blues.

1 JUNO AWARD
Blues Album of the year (2015)

MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL BLUES CHALLENGE
Best self-produced CD (2013)

8 MAPLE BLUES Awards
Electric act of the year (2000 – 2014 – 2015)
Entertainer of the year (2014 – 2015)
Guitarist of the year (2014 – 2015)
Album of the year (2014)

Discography

	Song name	Time
1	Evening Star	03:24	Buy on iTunes
2	Rain	04:17	Buy on iTunes
3	Days	03:52	Buy on iTunes
4	Out of Phase	4:20	Buy on iTunes
5	Gotta be Strong and Carry On	02:53	Buy on iTunes
6	Coming Back to You	01:40	Buy on iTunes
7	Nothing New	04:08	Buy on iTunes
8	Long Road	02:37	Buy on iTunes
9	Tough Luck	04:06	Buy on iTunes
10	Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	4:57	Buy on iTunes
11	Slowly Slipping Away	3:27	Buy on iTunes
12	Troubled Times	4:23	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Rhythm All Over	3:51
2	Go on	5:09
3	The Collector	3:50
4	Damned	3:46
5	Tough Luck	4:24
6	Never Is Such A Long Time	6:36
7	Hate to See You Go	5:22
8	Emily	4:08
9	Nothing New	4:22
10	Out of Phase	4:20
11	Still Got It Bad	5:29
12	The Ballad of Johnny Wabo	5:21
13	Dangerous	3:56
14	Voodoo Child (Slight Return)	7:31

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	Song name	Time
1	Damned	3:19	Buy on iTunes
2	Dangerous	3:47	Buy on iTunes
3	Still a Fool & a Rollin Stone	5:32	Buy on iTunes
4	Slowly Slipping Away	3:27	Buy on iTunes
5	Rhythm All Over	3:39	Buy on iTunes
6	Smoking Hot Machine	4:02	Buy on iTunes
7	Troubled Times	4:23	Buy on iTunes
8	Emily	2:25	Buy on iTunes
9	Can't Take It with You	3:03	Buy on iTunes
10	Rollin & Tumblin / Stop Breaking Down	5:11	Buy on iTunes
11	Going Down the Road Feeling Bad	4:57	Buy on iTunes
12	Walking Grave	5:39	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Still Got It Bad	04:55	Buy on iTunes
2	Slim Chance	03:03	Buy on iTunes
3	Tough Luck	04:06	Buy on iTunes
4	The Collector	03:45	Buy on iTunes
5	Never Is Such a Long Time	04:30	Buy on iTunes
6	Hate to See You Go	04:41	Buy on iTunes
7	Better	04:24	Buy on iTunes
8	Simple Things	04:52	Buy on iTunes
9	I Want You to Love Me	04:23	Buy on iTunes
10	Go On	03:58	Buy on iTunes
11	Long Road	04:05	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Money (That's What I Want)	03:23	Buy on iTunes
2	Nothing New	04:08	Buy on iTunes
3	Long Road	04:05	Buy on iTunes
4	Go On	03:58	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Ever Changing World	03:50	Buy on iTunes
2	Love Got Us Blind	03:18	Buy on iTunes
3	Out of Phase	04:10	Buy on iTunes
4	Honey Bee	03:24	Buy on iTunes
5	Comin' Back To You	02:47	Buy on iTunes
6	King of the World	04:29	Buy on iTunes
7	Politician	03:04	Buy on iTunes
8	Gotta be Strong and Carry On	02:53	Buy on iTunes
9	Ain't Wastin' Time No More	03:58	Buy on iTunes
10	The ballad of Johnny Wabo	03:43	Buy on iTunes
11	Preachin Blues	03:09	Buy on iTunes
12	Granted	04:52	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	It Ain't Cool	03:48	Buy on iTunes
2	Goodbye Sunshine	04:39	Buy on iTunes
3	Cold Hearts	03:28	Buy on iTunes
4	Whiplash Love	03:43	Buy on iTunes
5	I'll Walk	04:05	Buy on iTunes
6	Running Out of Time	03:58	Buy on iTunes
7	Burnt	03:52	Buy on iTunes
8	I Fall for You	04:10	Buy on iTunes
9	Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line	03:27	Buy on iTunes
10	Let's Get Back Together	03:50	Buy on iTunes
11	Judgment Day	07:05	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	The One	04:14
2	Who Do You Think You Are	03:12
3	Lost Woman	02:56
4	Up Jumped the Devil	03:06
5	Too Much Pressure	04:16
6	Give Your Woman What She Wants	02:50
7	I'm Dying for You	04:10
8	Sarah-Sue	06:01
9	The Mighty	03:17
10	The Terrible One	04:04
11	I'll Be Around	05:25
12	Going Down	03:15
13	The Fire Down Below	06:54

	Song name	Time
1	NASA Made	03:19	Buy on iTunes
2	Devil at My Heels	03:31	Buy on iTunes
3	Gotta Be Strong	03:04	Buy on iTunes
4	Control	03:41	Buy on iTunes
5	Even	04:30	Buy on iTunes
6	Long Road	02:37	Buy on iTunes
7	Roll Away the Stone	03:09	Buy on iTunes
8	Phoenix	01:10	Buy on iTunes
9	Make It Clear	05:48	Buy on iTunes
10	Get Over You	03:55	Buy on iTunes
11	Happy Face	05:21	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Bad Boy (featuring Heavy T)	04:09	Buy on iTunes
2	Run	04:21	Buy on iTunes
3	Home	04:42	Buy on iTunes
4	No Can Do	04:22	Buy on iTunes
5	One Woman Man	04:37	Buy on iTunes
6	Faster	04:30	Buy on iTunes
7	The Fall Of The One & Only John Doe	02:08	Buy on iTunes
8	Les Eaux troubles	04:28	Buy on iTunes
9	Chasin' The Hidden Dragon	03:49	Buy on iTunes
10	Open Your Eyes	03:39	Buy on iTunes
11	Irréparables erreurs	03:34	Buy on iTunes
12	Just Have To Ask	05:06	Buy on iTunes

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	Song name	Time
1	Sizzlin’	03:05
2	Top Forty	02:29
3	You Can Trust Me Now	03:36
4	Patient Man	04:41
5	Overqualified	04:52
6	Darkest Hour	03:37
7	Slave	05:50
8	Wanna Holler	04:07
9	Whooo!	03:09
10	What a Life	02:50
11	Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good to You	04:03
12	Wait on Time (Live Bonus Track)	05:17

	Song name	Time
1	Hit the Bee Flat	02:10
2	Way Down Below	05:06
3	Simple Things	04:52
4	Blues Guitar Man	03:38
5	Belvedere Heights	01:33
6	So Long, Farewell, Goodbye	04:17
7	Peace of Mind (intro)	01:41
8	Peace of Mind	05:21
9	I’m a King Bee	04:20
10	Waiting for You	04:44
11	Clearwater	04:27