The time has come, and we couldn’t be more excited! Our new album is in the manufacturing stage and is set for arrival May 22, just in time for our CD Release Party at the Club Fox in Redwood City on Friday, May 24!

Our second album, Lonesome Garbage Man is a collection of 18 songs, 16 of which are written by the band. We couldn’t be more happy about how it turned out; it has a very distinct sound given our original songs, and the analog recordings give it a much different texture than most contemporary bluegrass CDs. The arrival date is close to two years since our first album Let’s Go to the Fair came out. We can’t wait for you to hear it!

Lonesome Garbage Man is one of the songs on the album written by Thomas. It seemed a good fit for the album title, as a lot of our songs are on the lonesome side. Ryan and his brother Kellen had a lot of fun coming up with the cover.

Lonesome Garbage Man will be available at all of our upcoming shows, as well as iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon, etc. Keep an eye out for it!

See you soon.

~WH

Hey everyone,

We are back from a great trip to Lake Havasu for the Bluegrass on the Beach festival. Our van, Wendy, got us there in good time and without any trouble. It was a privilege to meet so many great people and in general to be part of such a great festival, hosted by L & S Promotions.What a great way to kick off the festival season.

We are excited to announce that we’ve finished mixing the album! Now we just have to put on the final touches and it should be here in a month!!! We are very excited to get the new music out to you. It will feature 19 songs, 18 of which are originals. We think you are really going to like it!

We’ll keep you posted as the details unravel and we have a set date for the arrival of the CD!

Lastly, check out the video below of us on the Lake Havasu news!

~WH

The first weekend of March we will take our first trip to Lake Havasu, Arizona for Bluegrass on the Beach! Larry and Sondra Baker put on a great festival (they also host Plymouth Bluegrass Festival) and we can’t wait to see what they have in store this year. Joining us will be some of the hottest bands in the country, including the Lonesome River Band and Junior Sisk and Rambler’s Choice. We are really looking forward to it!

In other news, we are making the final strides towards finishing our second studio album! We still haven’t come up with a title yet, but we are really looking forward to finalizing all of the details and getting the CD out to our fans. We are really proud of the music on this album and can’t wait to have it out. Look for it to be released in the beginning of April.

Thanks for stopping by our site, and stay tuned for updates on the album!

~WH

The San Francisco Bluegrass and Old Time Festival (SFBOT) begins this Friday, Feb. 8 and runs through Sunday, Feb. 17. While it is largely in the shadow of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, SFBOT is an unheralded bluegrass festival that hosts some of the best bands on the West Coast and beyond. Like Hardly Strictly, you can find a lot of different types of music represented.

We’ll be holding it down for bluegrass fans, playing shows on Thursday, Feb. 14 at the ol’ Lucky Horseshoe in San Francisco and Saturday the 16 at the Starry Plough in Berkeley.

Joining us at the Lucky Horseshoe on Valentine’s Day will be an old-time band, the Knuckleknockers, and our good friends with the Lucky Horseshoe House Band will add the honkytonk flavor. Saturday at the Starry Plough we are really looking forward to teaming up with western swing band The West Coast Ramblers.

Thanks for swinging by the site and thanks for staying patient…our album is coming out soon!!! Details to follow.

~WH

After a few really great years, our mandolin player Henry is moving East with his fiance Ella. We’ve accomplished a lot with Henry and we wish him the best on his adventures with Ella and the Larry Gillis Band.
At this time we’d like to introduce Logan Ledger, our new guitar man. Logan is a rock-solid guitar player and singer who recently moved back to California from the East Coast. Thomas will be switching from guitar to mandolin. We are really excited to have Logan on board and we’re looking forward to making some great music together in 2013.
Windy Hill coming to a town near you. Thanks as always to our friends, fans and family for supporting our band.

Hello everyone, and thanks for visiting our site. We want to wish all of our fans, family and friends a happy new year and the best of luck in 2013, the year of the snake.

We are very excited about making 2013 another best year yet and we have a lot of big things in store. We will be finishing up our second album in the studio this weekend and will finally move on to the mixing, mastering and designing stage before it goes into production. Look for it to be on sale in March.

In other news, on Wednesday, January 9, we will be at the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz, and joining us will be newcomers to the area, The Water Tower Bucket Boys. These guys are a top-notch band, and we are excited to join them in welcoming them as a new Santa Cruz band. Later this month, Thomas and Ryan will be traveling to Ohio to play a string of shows around the Dayton and Springfield area. This is really exciting, and it will be sort of a bluegrass pilgrimage. More details to come about their trip and the venues where they’ll be performing.

Best of luck to you in 2013. We hope to see you at a show soon.

~WH

Hey Everybody,

We are getting to the end of 2012 and we have just a few more shows left. This year has been a great time with our touring and new recordings. The new CD should be out in early 2013, so keep an eye out.

On Monday the 17th we will be back at Amnesia in San Francisco. Come see us slam it! As always it’s FREE. Then on New Year’s Eve we are playing at The Plough and Stars in San Francisco to ring in the NEW YEARS. Gonna be a fun rest of the month.

Hope to see everybody.

WINDY HILL

Exciting news: This Friday we will be back at our hometown Club Fox in Redwood City for a post-Thanksgiving party! We are really hoping to see a lot of our old friends and fans from the Bay Area at this show. The last two of our shows at the Club Fox have been nothing short of legendary, so we’re anticipating another great night!

The show will start at night and we will be playing all night, so make sure to come and party with us! If you are home for Thanksgiving and have other friends who are back for the weekend, make sure to spread the word that it’s going DOWN at Club Fox.

See you then,

Windy Hill

Welome back to our site, and thanks for checking in.

We’ve had our first time off in a long time, and now we really can’t wait to play some shows! First up is Friday, Nov. 16 at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz with locals North Pacific String Band and our friends from the north, Left Coast Country. This really will be a bluegrass powerhouse show with some of the best young acts on the West Coast, so if you are in the area, come get down.

We will also be returning to the Club Fox in Redwood City on November 23, the Friday after Thanksgiving. Club Fox has really turned into our true hometown venue, and without a doubt one of our favorite places to perform. We hope to see a lot of old friends there!

In other news, we are continuing work on our second album this month, and we think our fans are really going to be stoked on it. We can’t wait to show off all of our new tunes on a new CD!

Thanks as always for checking in, and we’ll be sure to keep you updated more frequently now that band vacay is over.

~WH

We hope everyone is enjoying the fall and everything that comes with it — it sure is a beautiful time to be in Northern California. We have been busy lately working on our upcoming studio and live albums, and also working on some great shows to finish off 2012 on a strong note. Stay tuned for info on our first New Years Eve show!

Coming up next we have a fun show this Friday, October 12 in our hometown of Portola Valley, CA at The Sequoias. It is free and open to the public, and it is one of the best music halls in the Peninsula. We hope to see some of our hometown fans there!

On Sunday, October 14, we will be teaming up with one of the hottest young bluegrass bands in the business, the Henhouse Prowlers, at Moe’s Alley in Santa Cruz. We are excited to get back to Moe’s Alley, and this double bill with the Prowlers will be one not to miss in Santa Cruz.

Lastly, next Monday (Oct. 15) make sure to stop by Amnesia in San Francisco for the best Monday part in the Bay Area! We’ll continue to keep you updated on future shows and WH happenings. Thanks for stopping by, as always.

~WH