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Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardA Kaleidoscope Heart Christmas Card to My Friends and Listeners 2022 with Bruce HilliardHey to all the Better Each Day Listeners, this is Bruce and welcome to episode 251. Welcome to the show but most importantly welcome to the first annual year end Christmas party where we feature a special theme.Now keep in mind that I am, and apparently always will be, a hopeless romantic love song writing fool. One thing we can all agree on is that some songs just need to be written. And some people need to be written about.This year the vote was unanimous to introduce some songs you may have heard on...
2022-12-0433 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJohn Oates on Band Names and Abandoned Luncheonette Plus "To Love Somebody" with Bruce HilliardHey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. This is a special episode with the ghost of John Oates past. I was reflecting on a conversation from a while back where we talked about band names, the Beatles and Hall and Oates being two of them, and the famous Abandoned Luncheonette.So here are a couple of covers starting with one from an album called Help! It’s by that band with the name that catches on after a while, the Beatles.I ju...
2022-11-1223 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardNew "Runaway" Song Plus a Collection of Originals By Request with Bruce HilliardHey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. We had a storm here in Mukilteo WA that knocked out our power yesterday. I was reduced to a pencil and an acoustic guitar, two of the best inventions ever.This song was the result.RunawayThinking again of leaving it all behindPacking my things and wondering why oh why I feel this sometimesYou and I will runaway, taking our time, let the whirlwinds blow...
2022-11-0626 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardOur Mr. Wines Aberdeen High School Music Instructor Passes At Age 97 with Bruce HilliardBruce Hilliard speaking. The leaves are falling, times are a-changin’ and I heard Mr. Wines took the coda. My most influential band director Mr. Wines passed away a few days ago. In music, a coda is a passage that brings a piece of music to an end. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section. This guy was an entire opus, an epic rock opera for me and many others. Mr. Wines, one of my personal influences and motivators of my music career, passed last Sunday October 23rd 2022. He was 97. A lo...
2022-10-3026 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardFrom the Happenings to Author "Rock and Roll Warrior" with Bruce HilliardWhen I was a little kid I watched American Bandstand because I liked the songs Dick Clark and company selected for his top hits it’s what the kids want countdown. Based on what I heard, I walked downtown to Aub Schmidt’s music store with a dollar in coins and bought a 45.Being a fan of vocal harmonies, Beach Boys and Four Seasonsy stuff, I heard this version of “I’ve Got Rhythm” by the Happenings. I had the honor of speaking with David Libert, the baritone and arranger of the Happenings a couple days ago and he sai...
2022-10-1633 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAberdeen High School Class of 1972 Tribute with Bruce HilliardHey everyone! And welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show…the show that features recording artists and their work. That’s what we usually do but this episode is all about a party I’ll be playing in a week. It’s taking me back home to Aberdeen Washington or Warshington for the washing impaired.Aberdeen, the town that put the Gator on the Animal House movie via Bill Murray who watched in person our hometown ritual dance, the Gator, performed at the Rocker by our beer soaked Schmenges flailing on the dance floor like freshly...
2022-09-0421 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardTommi Tikka Speaks Up For Born Free Climate Change with Bruce HilliardHey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s guest Tommi Tikka with a message to go to the Born Free Foundation and he and several generous and concerned musicians have donated time and music to the cause…cause that’s what we do.Please kick back and listen to our chat and music from the Born Free climate change project.Born Free Climate Change Contributions Welcome Here!
2022-08-0631 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"From Womb To Tomb" Band Lillian Axe Songwriter and Guitarist Steve Blaze with Bruce HilliardHey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s most excellent guest Steve Blaze, lead guitarist in of one of the hottest rock bands I’ve heard in years, Lillian Axe. Their latest album From Womb To Tomb will be released on CD on August 19 by Global Rock Records. This is the band’s first new album in ten years and it comes ahead of their first UK headline dates in 29 years.Coming up, a few cuts from the LP written by our guest Steve Blaze and a chat with Steve!
2022-07-3134 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardUncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards--Guitarist/Songwriter Silvano Ancelotti with Bruce HilliardHey it's Bruce and come see me in concert at the Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett WA on Saturday July 23rd (that’s 2022) at 8:00. And please welcome today’s guest Silvano Ancelotti…From Italy, its Uncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards and some of the best Irish pub music you’ll ever hear. Folk/Rock music, spiced up with Irish Trad! Based in the north of Italy (weird, innit?) and made up of lads who, in one way or another, lived or spent too much time in Ireland! Too rock for the Folk...
2022-07-2227 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHave You Used the Internet Dating Apps? with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Flood Dud, yes me, to talk about blind dates. You can say what you want about them, or even worse….go on one. This can be a marathon event to locate someone you like but with the right amount of perseverance I’ll be finding a mate.There’s no better defining moment between artificial intelligence, in this case the dating app on my iPhone, compared humanoids, in particular your friends that know what you like, than the blind dating process. The blind dat...
2022-06-2026 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardQuiet Riot's Chuck Wright: New Solo Project "Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky" with Bruce HilliardChuck Wright is today’s guest. When Chuck is not fighting crime by night, he is best known as the bassist from Quiet Riot! Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Chuck Wright, to talk about his new and first solo album, or project as he refers to it, Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky.Chuck is proud and excited to release his debut solo album, Sheltering Sky, on Los Angeles-based Cleopatra Records, on May 20. The album features guest appearances by several of Wright’s musical peers including keyboardist Derek Sherinian (Dream Theater/B...
2022-05-2837 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJames Carr Rides Again with the James Carr Band and "Goddess Reborn" with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard telling you they tattooed her in darkness. That is a line from Goddess Reborn, a song we’ll hear and hear all about from guest and rockin’ it James Carr. James is the front for the James Carr Band. If you get a chance, check them out. Very good. James Carr plays some kick ass guitar and what a great vocalist! Okay, I’m back with a couple minutes to play this by request. A song I wrote about a promise made by a little girl to a little...
2022-05-2123 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHappy Birthday Hannyta! Now 18 Singer/Songwriter and "Wildflower" Chats with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard. I’m here all week, tip your waitresses and for all your painting needs? Welcome to my day gig. Please select a color from your favorite food groups. Raspberry red, avocado or Huskie purple , and how shiny you like your sheen. We have Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and even washingma sheen.It's a DYI project for you alone, “do-yourself-it”, FYI. Today’s guest just turned 18 on Monday May 9th 2022. She is Hungary born and Scotland raised beautiful young Hannyta. Her original debut song Wildflowe...
2022-05-1427 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardPhil Tittle Chats Songwriting, His Lyrics, What It's Like In The Music Business with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with guest Phil Tittle.Phil Tittle is a singer-songwriter based out of Pensacola, Florida. His music has traces of blues, country, rock, and singer-songwriter influences that fit nicely into the Americana genre. Phil's first studio album, “All Over the Map” was released in 2019 under his band's name "Colt Weston" and he released "The Roadhouse Hymnals" the following year. Phil now regularly plays solo throughout the SE region under his given name. He released his first LP using his given name, appropriately titled, "The Truth in Me" in A...
2022-05-0837 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardSongs About Relationships by Dean Backholm and Bruce Hilliard with host Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with a warm spring day and actually you don’t need to point out that you’re not “being here” with me. But in spirit with ears to listen and enjoy a few original songs. Many of the Better Each Day shows are musician interviews with the famous or the hopefuls. I love em all but here’s some of the music listeners have been asking for and I’m happy to deliver in under a half hour or you get a free pizza or something of equal value. A true...
2022-04-2433 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardGuitar Talk with Southern Rock's Greg Martin and Two Originals with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, and my guest, guitar man Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters. As I'm looking out my studio window (the studio that’s my kitchen and bedroom too) I see a coyote. I live on the Harbour Pointe Golf Club’s ninth hole where sometimes I see people stopping off in the bushes to drain their veins but other than squirrels and Easter bunnies ya don’t get all that much wildlife.For wildlife I turn to my day gig at the Home Depot paint department, where doers get more do...
2022-04-1830 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce's Dark Songs, a Country Cover and I'm Going Home with Bruce HilliardThank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, friend of those who want no friends and part-time dressmaker’s dummy. I’d like to thank DJ Richard Dee from Aberdeen radio for that tag and a shoutout to KOSW Ocean Shores for playing my show every Saturday morning. We’re doing a couple of my darker songs, Pawn Shop Boulevard and Endless Rain followed by a country cover and a surprise. Don’t freak out, it’s not a new car. And I’m not depressed about my string of pitiful failures and I’m not going into a sh...
2022-04-1020 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce's Super Saturday Six Song Set EP and Song Notes Show with Bruce HilliardI’m Bruce Hilliard, born in Seattle and raised by wolves and gorillas in a small timber town called Aberdeen Washington. Not Aberdeen Scotland, Maryland, South Dakota or any of the others. The Aberdeen that’s best known for logging, fishing and mills. It has a huge correctional facility, more than their share of the homeless population and dead end thinking…and musicians.There was and always will be music in River City. I’m hopelessly hopeful. I became interested in the singer/songwriter entertainment industry before kindergarten. It was the musical fun in bl...
2022-04-0328 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMontana Rocks Thank You Bruce Anfinson Sings Scott Builds and Paul Drives with Bruce HilliardHello from Mukilteo and hey it’s great to be back home where it’s warm. My buddy Paul from Aberdeen asked me to take a road trip to Helena Montana and I just returned to the warmest place I’ve ever known. My apartment on a St. Patrick’s green golf course.Bruce “The Snow Blower” Hilliard here and not since my winters at WSU have I witnessed cold like Montana cold…four below…bitter fricken fracken cold and in March! I packed lightly and don’t actually own skiing or North Pole exploration gear. Instea...
2022-03-1432 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMusic From Your Youth Sticks, Dates, Dances and Real Romances by Bruce HilliardHello my little belly buttons and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Hilliard, the best looking face you’ll ever hear. This is the podcast where musicians talk about their music and backstories. But due to the influx of comments and suggestions for more tales with tunes and not so many interviews with top notch celebrity rock stars, here’s a story about the 60s and 70s dance scene in small town America, Aberdeen and Hoquiam Washington.But this could be anywhere there are boys, girls and rock’n’roll. It started with lame sch...
2022-03-0632 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard90th Birthday at the House On Hoo Humper Hill in Aberdeen with Bruce HilliardHello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Andrew Hilliard. Andrew came from my grandpa Andy Hilliard. He could chew Copenhagen all day without spitting, put horseradish on everything and drank Listerine. Last week I was invited to a 90th birthday party for a man that was a second dad to me. He was actually my best buddy’s dad, the guy I ran with from first grade into high school and beyond. And when things weren’t good for me at home, I was over at their house bugging them, a family of Mo...
2022-02-2628 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce's "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" Beatles' 58th Ed Sulli Anniversary with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ share their backstories and their music and any embarrassing moments they care to share. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here.The '60s — an era when television was still a modern marvel, and viewers only had a few channels to choose from — TV variety shows were one of the most important influences of pop culture. Thus, Beatles fans were especially eager to show their support for their favorite boys by watching them on the small screen whenever they scored a televi...
2022-02-0629 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMid 60s: A Montage of Memories ~ Story Song...Something Dad Said with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here.I’ve had the pleasure of producing this show for over five years without the use of sponsors. Why, you ask. Because I’m not selling out for anyone I tell you! That’s why I eat: (multiple ads for 60s food and deodorant).That was Love Potion #9, the home game...
2022-01-2929 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardDale Bozzio Autobiography: Missing Persons, Frank Zappa, Prince & Beyond with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here.Today's guest, Dale Bozzio is the co-founder and lead singer of Missing Persons, one of the 80s most distinctive bands…set apart by her distinctive, flat out sexy looks that MTV drooled over. A look that led her to the cover of Hustler Magazine.Dale has just released her autobiography, entitled Life is So Strang...
2022-01-2329 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardKaren Carpenter's "Echo" Carla Williams and A Tribute To The Carpenters with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here.The opening minute was me inappropriately flirting with today’s guest.Carla Williams wanted to be a country music singer from the beginning. She put her dreams on hold to raise four kids and grow a successful business. Well here we go. Carla morphed into the late Karen Carpenter and now she's back at it…and...
2022-01-1633 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe High School Yearbook Show with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here.It’s heading into even more short days and long nights in Aberdeen. The rain always lives up to its reputation at the foot of a national rain forest that gets up to 150 inches in the west side. Roughly 90% of that crashed down on the kids without their jackets on in the elementary school playgrounds during recess.Since it’s a new...
2022-01-0927 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThree Dog Xmas Night at the Aberdeen Animal Hospital with Bruce HilliardHello hello and Merry Christmas to all. There’s been a generous response from our listeners regarding hometown nostalgia material on the show. Being from middle- everything Aberdeen WA in the early baby boomer years, there are endless small town-everywhere stories for you. I somehow gravitate to stories about my Dad, Dr. Glenn A. Hilliard, DVM. (reverb) Christmas is extra special when your dad is a veterinarian. A vet is the guy you call on Sunday night because your kid, a human kid, has a fever. The reason the callers would call the vet and not...
2021-12-2329 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHilliard's Wild Christmas Trees, "Hello", "Snow Angel" and "Happy Christmas" with Bruce HilliardHello hello hello and merry Christmas from the corner of Christmas Street and Better Each Day. Come on along and take a walk with me.You're here just in time for an eggnog and my Christmas 2021 song Hello Hello Hello. It's about being committed to the Christmas fruit cake boom boom room for believing in Santa. “I believe in Santa Claus and giving.” Christmas Street can be anywhere, anytime. It doesn’t need to be a street. It can be in a Victorian home or visiting the mother ship. In this story it’s down a gravel...
2021-12-1829 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAberdeen-Hoquiam Thanksgiving Football Classic Story Of Bruce Hilliard with Bruce HilliardWhen I was 2-years-old the Hilliard family, in accordance with my life plan as dictated by me as soon as I was potty trained, moved west from Bellevue, Washington, to a small timber town twenty minutes from the coast. While in Bellevue we lived in a neighborhood that is a chip shot from Microsoft campuses today. Maybe we should have stayed there but we migrated west to a small town called Aberdeen, Washington. Aberdeen, Washington, is at sea level.This meant, to you inlanders, that when it rained 40 days and 40 nights (which isn’t at all that Bib...
2021-11-2532 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce Hilliard Songs By Request with Host Bruce HilliardWelcome times a trillion to the 10th degree. I’m the familiar voice of Bruce Hilliard and today’s show is Bruce Songs By Request. These are selfie recordings, all written, performed, recorded, mixed and blessed with fairy dust by me. Be sure to click in on Thanksgiving: Bruce’s High School Football Adventure this Thanksgiving. It’s a fun look at my childhood, football and the glory days of the Aberdeen/Hoquiam Thanksgiving Football Classic.Don’t miss it. It’s made more headlines than a corduroy pillow. Find a time to break away...
2021-11-2135 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardWhere Lyric Ideas Hide with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day podcast from me to you, episode 199. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard and I hope your everything is ducky.I like to write. I’ve written for business, pleasure, grocery lists, short stories, incredibly informative texts, speeches, advertisements, and my favorite thing to write since I can remember, songs.Some of my songs are completely made up and some are based on experience. This next song is both. When I was in my early twenties I still had my high school sweetheart. My band was playing smokey taverns and I did...
2021-09-0125 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce's Sunday Night Requests Only Originals With One Cover Set with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day episode 198. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard and I hope your world is a wonderful place.I spoke with a friend today that told me to play a bunch of my songs. Here they are. Something old, something new, something borrowed...
2021-08-2328 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe California Sound, Burrito Brothers' Chris James with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day episode 197 with 138 days until Christmas and 365 days until this time next year. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard and I hope your world is a wonderful place.My hand surgery went well--it’s been about three weeks--and I won’t be playing guitar worth a damn for a while but the time off doing the prescribed exercises and pretending I’m right-handed has inspired me to do things set aside for showing off my penguin flipper dexterity: mix and release a new single called California. We’ll get to that as soon as we...
2021-08-0926 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe Show Must Go On with Bruce HilliardHow much of a copyrighted recording can I play without an internet algorithm detection system banning yours and my free non-profit production?Welcome to the Better Each Day free non-profit production podcast. I’m your host free non-profit production podcast Bruce Hilliard with three of my songs I hope you’ll enjoy. If you play more than a few seconds of a copyrighted song, through some coding system and artificial intelligence, or AI for the acronym lovers, it gets eliminated from whatever platform, be it social media or a podcast. If it happens too often the c...
2021-07-1821 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardSaho Yamashita, "Back In Time" and Her Guitar Teacher's Hand Surgery with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day podcast. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard with a very special guest. Well actually she’s not here to be interviewed because she left her guitar lesson and recording session to go to the Mariner’s game with her family today. So I’m leaving you hanging for a few minutes.2021, what a year it’s been for many of us. And as for me, no exception. Since Valentine’s Day I’ve worked for three different major league paint shops, played 17 solo gigs, released three singles, published 20 podcast interviews, gave about 75 guita...
2021-07-1220 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardDoogie II--The Rest of "As Yet Untitled", The Album and the Man with Bruce HilliardThe intro music you just heard The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen featured the guitar of Richie Blackmore, probably best known for his work with rock band Deep Purple and the vocals of today’s guest, from Scotland, the great pipes of Doogie White.Welcome to the Better Each Day podcast. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard with a very special guest.Sometimes there’s an interview where I could go on talking to the guest for hours. This is one of them. The dinner bell rang and Doogie had to run. His album, As Yet Un...
2021-07-0331 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardDoogie White "As Yet Untitled", Cool Covers and More with Bruce HilliardThe intro music you just heard was the guitar of Richie Blackmore, probably best known for his work with rock band Deep Purple and the vocals of today’s guest, from Scotland, the great pipes of Doogie White.Welcome to the Better Each Day podcast. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard with a very special guest.Sometimes there’s an interview where I could go on talking to the guest for hours. This is one of them. The dinner bell rang and Doogie had to run. His album, As Yet Untitled, the topics, everything else.D...
2021-06-2732 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThank You KOSW 91.3, "I'm Going Home", "One Man Band" and "I'll Find a Way" with Bruce HilliardYou’re listening to radio station KOSW-LP 91.3 in Ocean Shores WA and this is the Better Each Day Podcast. I am DJ Bruce of Hilliard, there’s no traffic today if you stay home and enjoy your company and pop open a can of here comes a summer to remember.I did a short stint as a classic rock DJ at a small Ocean Shores radio station. It was some of the best times ever. For me, it was a break from actually writing, performing and producing the music to just announcing and playing songs from other reco...
2021-06-1318 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard3 Song Set: Sam, 34th and Vine and Better Each Day with Bruce HilliardWelcome to episode 188 of the Better Each Day Podcast and all sunny spring day. All is how they pronounce oil in Texas, all is good, all is ducky, and its and all request...it’s a Jimmy crapped corn and I don’t care show.This will be a short listen featuring three of my songs. Sam, 34th and Vine and the intro/outro song for this show...and it’s namesake written in 1980 Better Each Day.First up, Sam. Sam was the name of the young woman that used to book interv...
2021-05-2916 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJon Blackstone With More New Music and Rusty Smith? with Bruce HilliardHey to everyone as we slowly gain access to a mask free environment. Bruce Hilliard here at the Better Each Day beat lab...like the one from the movie Step Brothers. Welcome to part two of a super good interview with Seattle recording artists Jon Blackstone. In this episode he even starts off interviewing me.Here's a minute of his song Dear Friend from his new album Survive available on his website jonblackstone.com and any streaming platform. Please listen. I think you’ll like what you hear. Here is Jon Blackstone.And who in th...
2021-05-2250 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThree By Me with Bruce HilliardKerri ~ Bruce HilliardA schoolgirl crushReally didn’t think it would amount to much, they saidSo many years gone by Worn out jeans and tennis shoesGrass is green, sky is blue Small town girl, small town boyMeeting for the very first timeAnd I think I kind of like youAnd I think I kind of love youAnd I think someday you’ll marry me And raise a familyJu...
2021-05-2114 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard7 Songs By Bruce HilliardApril 24th, 2021 and things are looking up my friends! I’m your host, friend of those who want no friends, Bruce Hilliard...feeling your love. Go out there and spread it around.Today marks the one year anniversary of my EP release Pawn Shop Boulevard. I had more than one, okay several, millions of people tell me they haven’t heard the songs. Why? Because they don’t know how to get on Spotify or even this internationally obscure podcast for that matter.So, here we go. Some Bruce Hilliard originals, all vocals and instruments are me...
2021-04-2531 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"Kaleidoscope Heart", Annie and Freya with Bruce HilliardIt’s the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show and once again it’s me, Bruce Hilliard, bringing you Kaleidoscope Heart.Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry, sometimes I let my guard down and let people into my life and my heart. I'm so thankful I’m a songwriter because I can vent my sometimes over the top affection by writing sappy lyrics...and somehow that seems okay. Being too transparent without the guise of a third party doing your dirty work and saying for you “hey, you’re just great” is dangerous.There’s a confusing un...
2021-04-1113 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardPascal Danae and Delgres' New Album "4:00 A.M." with Bruce HilliardIt’s the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show and once again it’s me, Bruce Hilliard, bringing you the power roots trio Delgres and one third of the trio, our very talented guest Pascal Danae. He is a singer/guitar player and songwriter of music that takes on slavery, immigration, workers’ rights on their new album coming out April 9th titled 4:00 AM.The band members include drummer Baptiste Brondy and, in a nod to New Orleans tradition, rather than using a conventional electric or acoustic bass, our guest Pascal chose to anchor the music with a sousap...
2021-04-0325 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardScrapbook ~ Mark Farner, Matt Westin., Ashley Pucket with Bruce HilliardScript: It’s the Better Each Day Podcast Radio with the recurring voice of me, Bruce Hilliard, bringing you clips of past shows. These are pre-COVID so don’t be alarmed by our lack of masks. We’ll hear from country music artists Matt Westin and Ashley Pucket but first off, here’s Mark Farner with a story from his Grand Funk Railroad daysMark has the best stories and this one is about Janis Joplin and her chocolate affair with Mick Jagger.Country artist Matt Westin was on the show in October...
2021-03-2727 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardRobbie LaBlanc Gets It Right ~ "Double Trouble" with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day podcast. I’m your host and bathroom buddy Bruce Hilliard donning my new groovin’ the tunes of Rube Tubin and the Rondonnas stylish, yet comfy, wardrobe courtesy of Freya Fashion Design and Calvin Klein undies. It's been a year since the COVID hammer came down. People. Let’s remain Fauchi-ing until it’s cool to take off our masks and dance like children of the night.I should take a moment and apologize for the late airing of this episode. I, under the close adherence of the State of Washingto...
2021-03-1338 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBruce Hilliard Interviews Bruce Hilliard with Bruce HilliardEpisode 175 and I finally got around to it. An interview with myself. I showed up in time twice and the chat went well. Some of the questions were curve balls and maybe too personal. That's the risk you take.We talked about what's going on as a musician and podcast host and the ongoing need for a "real job" to pay the bills. Then it was three original songs: Hold On, I'm Going Home, Pawn Shop Boulevard and finally Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone. Here are the lyrics so you folks at home can sing along.
2021-03-0324 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMark Mangold of Touch and "Tomorrow Never Comes" with Bruce HilliardTomorrow Never Comes, latest by Touch ~~ Drops March 26, 2021.Hello again and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, your 138 pounds of wild flesh host Bruce Hilliard. I’m excited to introduce today’s guest musician Mark Mangold from an awesome rock band Touch.Touch is an American band from New York City formed in 1978 with Mark Mangold (keyboards and vocals), Glenn Kithcart (drums), Craig Brooks (guitars and vocals) and Doug Howard (bass and vocals). All previously had been in the last version of the band American Tears (releasing three...
2021-02-2231 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardKick Back With Dean Backholm and Bruce Hilliard TunesHey everybody! My musical hometown Aberdeen WA and I welcome you to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show where you are my friends and listeners from all over the world...and me? I get to be the happy-go-lucky host Bruce Hilliard.I mentioned Aberdeen because that’s where both of the guys you’re about to hear on this show hail from. The singer/songwriters I speak of are Dean Backholm and myself. Dean and I have worked together in the past but it’s been a while. To the tune of, oh I’m sure...decades...
2021-02-1828 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard2020 Done--Give COVID Back To The Bats Episode with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the 2020 finale episode of the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show. I’m your host Bruce Hilliard and I hope you had fun. As a special favor to my listeners I’m not going to do a recap on the year. You lived it, that’s enough.But in Better Each Day true fashion, everyday in every way, things will get better and better.I’m optimistic. To kick off this new year, New Year’s Day conveniently falls on January 1st...and we’re off to a good start. People ask me “Bruce...
2020-12-3119 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard'Twas the Week Before Christmas with Bruce HilliardHello and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show coming to you from Mukilteo Washington. For the listeners that don't know where that is, let’s leave it that way. :-)Mukilteo is 25 miles north of Seattle, about a half hour drive via I-5. Mukilteo is one of those four syllable words that I was cautioned about using when I was studying journalism.“Don’t make sentences too long and avoid using too many four syllable words Bruce.”They have a measurement system called, among other things, the Gunning Fog Index.To c...
2020-12-1722 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardWhy Don't You Just Shut Your Big Yapper ~ Halloween 2020 with Bruce HilliardThe script: It’s Halloween 2020, a year to remember indeed. Welcome to the Better Each Day podcast. Trick or treat, from six feet, throw the candy to the street. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I approve this message.Set your clocks back, wear your mask, drink your Ovaltine and wash your junk.This year is fraught with fright. Los Angeles won both the NBA Championship and the World Series but the LA fans weren’t allowed to attend the games. Only cut outs and a select few.Dressing up in costumes was once a way...
2020-10-3114 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardPaint and Songs, "Doesn't Anybody Fall In Love No More" with Bruce HilliardHey there hi there ho there. Bruce Hilliard here with news on my fourth week at my new job at Home Depot. I’m 65 this month, my hair is crap, my butt fell off and my face looks like a catcher's mitt. I can’t play my music live anywhere. But the world of hardware is beckoning me. So the only logical thing to do was work the paint department at Home Depot because it’s not only a great place to walk your dog but a great place to pick up chicks. Everyone knows that.But...
2020-09-0612 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardTeen Angel Featuring Brother Gary with Bruce Hilliard Hi, I’m Teen Angel, Bruce Hilliard here and this is a throwback episode taking you back to the fifties and into the sixties. Here’s what happened in 1955.*Rock and Roll gets its name. Disneyland and McDonald’s open.*Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were born. Albert Einstein died.*Tetracycline and polio vaccine invented.*Rosa Parks was arrested for riding on a bus. All of that in 1955. And onto the the rest of that decade: *Elvis appeared on Ed Sullivan with his first hit Heartbrea...
2020-08-2914 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJohn Oates and the Good Road Band Talks "Live In Nashville" with Bruce HilliardJohn Oates is one half of the best-selling duo of all time, Hall & Oates, as well as an accomplished solo artist. Singing from the time he could talk and playing the guitar since the age of five, John Oates was destined to be a musician. Born in New York City, his family moved to a small town outside of Philadelphia, PA in the early 1950s, a move that would change the course of his life.Soaking up the sounds of the 60s, John was influenced by the nascent folk scene, bluegrass, delta blues, and ragtime guitar styles...
2020-08-1323 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBoard Games, Songwriting and Voodoo Dolls with Bruce HilliardHello with a full tank of coffee, I’m Bruce Hilliard and guess what kids. It’s game night.I just love it when we can all get together and play Pandemic: The Home Game. It can be a riot.I don’t know about you guys but I grew up playing board games. Twister, Operation, Mouse Trap. Monopoly where you crush your opponents by charging them rent, jacking up their utility bills and gouge them for riding your obsolete train. And, you can bribe your way out of jail.Are you still...
2020-07-3008 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAkshay Nanavati, Marine Veteran Talks Making Friends with Fear with Bruce HilliardAkshay Nanavati is a United States Marine veteran, speaker, entrepreneur, ultra runner and author. He served in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom and was later diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. His book Fearvana was endorsed by the Dalai Lama and Jack Canfield. Wikipedia
2020-07-2315 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardBack to the YMCA, I'm Going Home and Momma Won't Let You Go with Bruce HilliardHello and welcome to episode 148. I’m feeling real good and feeling like things are returning to something that resembles normal. Because yesterday and today I went to the YMCA to work out.Atrophy is cousins with quarantine. I made a concerted effort to workout for the four months the gym was closed. But it’s just not the same. During the lockdown I was able to run and use my dumbbells. Abs, pushups...all good. But I couldn’t find anything to chin myself on. The local playground had caution tape all over the jungle gym so I a...
2020-07-1011 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHavilah Rand and The LifeSong Project with Bruce HilliardThe LifeSong Project works to preserve the memories and experiences of our elders and their family and community members in a way that makes an indelible imprint on both the heart and mind. It also strives to acknowledge and honor the voices of our ancestors and their contribution to our rich American history and human experience. By being asked to recount life experiences and having these narratives translated through songs, the individual is given the opportunity to view and acknowledge their life as a purposeful and exciting story of challenges, successes, hardships and joys. The family and greater community...
2020-07-0334 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJoe Louis Walker "Blues Comin' On" with Bruce HilliardJoe Louis Walker, a Blues Hall of Fame inductee and four-time Blues Music Award winner celebrates a career that exceeds a half a century. His new album Blues Comin' On cements his legacy as a prolific torchbearer for the R&B and rock. Looking back on his rich history, Walker shares, “I’d like to be known for the credibility of a lifetime of being true to my music and the blues. Sometimes I feel I’ve learned more from my failures, than from my success . But that’s made me stronger and more adventurous. And helped me create my own st...
2020-06-2531 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardWords of Kindness From Jaime Thurston and 52 Lives with Bruce HilliardToday’s guest Jaime Thurston, is the founder of one of the most incredibly focused charitable organizations I know, called 52 Lives. And I hesitate to call it a charity. It’s a philanthropic cause in that it provides help for people to help themselves. The 52 Lives process directly defines a problem and a recipient via a third party and based on contributions fulfills the need.Jaime says the most important thing we can learn is that being kind doesn’t have to be about making grand gestures, or spending a lot of money or setting up your own ch...
2020-06-2019 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardShirley King "Daughter of the Blues" Talks B.B. King and New Album with Bruce Hilliard
2020-06-1135 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardI'm Going Home ~ A New Song with Bruce HilliardWe published a show everyday for about two months and took a few days off while we watched the inevitable happen. You all have been sacked by the media if not actually in the demonstrations. This is not a politically charged show. I have my personal beliefs regarding politics and religion. There is much room for improvement to advance beyond the dark ages.I will take a second to plug my music on Spotify though. It's free and easy. By going to Spotify and playing the songs, saving them to a playlist, or sharing, or any kind o...
2020-06-0516 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMay the Force Be With Us All on 12-String Rickenbacker with Bruce HilliardWe all have a great big happy decade ahead of us. Let’s get er goin’. Hi, I’m Bruce Hilliard and this is comedians in cars getting coffee. In the immortal words of the Grateful Dead:What a Long Strange Trip It's BeenIt’s been a while since I did an episode that doesn’t feature a guest or a topic that’s not about me. But there comes a time when I’m left with little choice but to answer a few questions and I talk about myself.Arrogant and self indulgent...
2020-05-2612 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardVictoria Lye, Her Song and EP "Child In Me" with Bruce HilliardHi, I’m Victoria Lye. This is how you pronounce my name: |laɪ|. Coming from Novosibirsk, Siberia, I live in Germany since the age of 18.As a child I had no interest in singing at all. I even hated it. Besides I was very bad at it in a music school choir and wasn’t allowed to sing at concerts.Later on I noticed this: when I sing, it’s a magical moment for me. I’m like in a wonderland. My body rejoices because it can produce these voice sounds. I feel like I’m in in the...
2020-05-2322 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMichael Coleman the Metropolitan Cowboy and See Your Shadow with Bruce HilliardProducer and Songwriter Michael Coleman has been in the creative arts practically his entire life. As the Artistic Director of See Your Shadow Songwriting, Michael has been the driving force behind all the company’s artistic works utilizing the extremely talented vocalists and musicians that make up the See Your Shadow Network of Stars. As a lyricist, Michael’s writing style is filled with imagery and emotion and his lyrics stand alone as pieces of literature earning Michael two nominations as Poet Laureate for the State of Ohio. As a song producer, Michael applies an innovative production style and is no...
2020-05-2219 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMeghan Cary's River Rock Project with Bruce Hilliard“The River Rock Project is a celebration of women and all that we’ve achieved in the 100 years since we fought for - and won - the right to vote. And all we still have to achieve. It is about galvanizing women to get out the vote; to raise our voices and be heard. I sing this song for all the women who have been brave and bold enough to speak their truth, even when society doesn’t want to hear it. This is River Rock.” - Meghan CaryWhat To Do: Make a Video with Your Message
2020-05-1727 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardCarmine Appice, Ozzie and Sharon, Guitar Zeus Albums with Bruce HiilliardThis episode starts off with Carmine's experience working with Ozzie Osbourne and his wife Sharon. A more in depth version of this story is written in Carmine Appice's Stick It--Sex, Drums and Rock'n'Roll book.Appice is also the brainchild behind the Guitar Zeus album series featuring a list of notable musicians you have to hear to believe.Welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I’d like to take a second to remind you that today is the official release of my new EP Pawn Shop Boulevard. You...
2020-05-1634 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHall of Fame Drummer Great Carmine Appice with Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I’d like to take a second to remind you that today is the official release of my new EP Pawn Shop Boulevard. You’re hearing the song Hold On is the background. The additional four songs are available to add to your playlists on about 20 different streaming platforms. I always refer people to Spotify because that’s the biggie.It's free and easy. By going to Spotify and playing the songs, saving them to a playlist, or sharing, any kind of traff...
2020-05-1517 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"Smells Like Teen Spirit", Author Gillian G. Gaar with Bruce HilliardGillian G. Gaar is a Seattle-based author. Her first book, She's A Rebel: The History of Women in Rock & Roll was published in 1992. In addition to her own books, she has appeared in various anthologies, including The Nirvana Companion, Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Guide to Women in Rock, Nirvana: The Complete Illustrated History, Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen: Interviews and Encounters, Goldmine: The Beatles Digest (volumes one and two), The Best of the Beatles Book, The Stranger Guide To Seattle, Music: The Little Black Book, 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Vol 2, A Survey of American Culture, and various editions of The...
2020-05-1438 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"Like a Rolling Stone" Cover by Bruce HilliardWelcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show. I’m still Bruce Hilliard and I’m still waiting to be set free. Set me free, why don’t you babe. That’s a clue for the next guest. I’m meeting with him tomorrow but the episode won’t air for a few more days.He was the drummer of the band that had a hit with You Keep Me Hangin’ On, and he wasn’t in the Supremes. We’ll be talking with him about working with Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart and Vanilla Fudge coming up soon.In...
2020-05-1418 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe May 8th Outdoor Intercourse Day Show with Bruce HilliardMother’s Day is Sunday. I wonder if there will be Corona Day, or month. We could celebrate by running out of toilet paper and avoiding each other. Sounds like a bad camping trip.You’ve heard of social distancing and social intercourse, but have you heard of an outdoor intercourse celebration? Well it’s today and what better time than a global quarantine to go outside and get naked and roll around in the nettles. Wondering why so many people have a mischievous twinkle in their eye today? Could be they’re contemplating how they’re go...
2020-05-0811 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardHe Could Go All the Way, Spotify, and Social Distancing is Awkward with Bruce HilliardI’m Bruce Hilliard and I’m sitting here playing covers and reciting Sir Paul McCartney.Stuck inside these four walls,Sent inside forever,Never seeing no oneNice again like you,Mama you, mama you.McCartney wrote this song in response to drug laws that criminalized him and his friends (including fellow "bands on the run" Eagles and Byrds). "We're not criminals," he explained. "We just would rather do this than hit the booze - which had been a traditional way to do it. We felt that...
2020-05-0313 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardJon Coyne and Teasers From the May 15 Pawn Shop Boulevard EP with Bruce Hilliard[caption id="attachment_3747" align="alignright" width="200"] Jon Coyne the Hoopsmiles man.[/caption]That was I Have the Virus by Jon Coyne. Jon is actually a relative. A first cousin once removed, aka nephew. You can check out Jon Coyne’s YouTube channel and see the most incredible hula hooper ever. It’s probably easiest to remember Hoopsmiles, that’s the name of his show. Jon is also located on Patreon and I’ll include links on my show notes. Just remember Hoopsmiles and check it. Super good.I submitted my five song EP to distribution a few we...
2020-04-2913 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardWalker's Cay, Canada's Rock "Tell Me" and "Why Oh Why" with Bruce HilliardWalker's Cay is an original rock band based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Members include Gary LaBarr, (Vocalist/Rhythm Guitar/Keyboards), Mike Swain, (Lead and Rhythm Guitars), Tim Morrissey (bass) and David, "Dave" Pistilli, (Drums).Gary LaBarr has gold and platinum record status for his work in various original band projects, working as a musician, producer, and arranger.Mike Swain is considered to be the "technical wizard" for the band, due to his 30-plus years as a licensed control technician at a nuclear power plant. Mike is also a professional recording engineer, specializing in the Pr...
2020-04-2533 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe Impersonator's Tom Tikka, "Cloud Nine", "Broken Snow" with Bruce HilliardHaving previously been signed to Sony/BMG with Carmen Gray, one of Finland's finest rock bands, Tom Tikka has formed The Impersonators, a two-man project born out their ashes and designed to cut out the politics and strife which come from the rock 'n' roll carnival of band life. Resolutely studio-based, The Impersonators channel the bejeweled power-pop of The Go-Betweens and the immediacy/worldliness of early R.E.M. to deliver timeless alt-pop melodies. Comprising Tom Tikka and lyricist Antti Autio, The Impersonators are just that: a duo which masquerades as a full band and does everything...
2020-04-2131 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardKOSW 91.3 Ocean Shores Surf's Up Saturday Tommy T Interview with Bruce HilliardPlease welcome Tommy T, a.k.a. Tom Ferguson, KOSW radio 91.3 The Sound of the Shores. Bruce was a guest on Tommy T’s Saturday morning show at KOSW in Ocean Shores WA Saturday April 18th.Tom started at KOSW shortly after Bruce left in 2016. Tommy T did the interview from a remote in his home because the KOSW station is off limits to most of the radio personalities so he did the home version.They talk about Bruce’s journey from KOSW to the podcast and the May 15th release of EP Pawn Shop Boul...
2020-04-1843 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"We Are Us", "Screamersville"... Two Great Voices, Savannah and Bee with Bruce HilliardThis has been my coronavirus project. To compile five of my songs and release an EP before the end of the decade. FYI if JFK DIY’d an EP ASAP he may not have been DOA and the FBI wouldn’t have said OMG that’s BS he’s MIA BTW. O.K?My dad used to say you can climb the highest mountain but if you do it by yourself it doesn't count. That's what I feel like I'm doing right now. Living out a moment in human history that is unprecedented, I am publishing more internet...
2020-04-1615 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe Pawn Shop Boulevard EP Went to Distribution Episode with Bruce HilliardWe’re all homies now! TP shortages, social distancing and a huge run on Viagra. These things don’t belong in the same sentence. I made the Viagra part up.How much longer? What if we return to the routine too soon and there’s a relapse. You can’t just go to the Betty Ford clinic and hit the reset button. And the virus hair look is getting more and more prevalent. It doesn't matter too much because no one sees me. Trust me, I’m still and always will be the best looking guy on the r...
2020-04-1417 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardLee Oskar, Harmonica, Eric Burdon and War, Talks About the Times with Bruce HilliardOriginally from Denmark, maybe best known for his harp work with bands War, Eric Burdon and War and songs like Cisco Kid, Low Rider and Spill the Wine. It’s an honor and my pleasure to have guest Lee Oskar. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1948, Oskar was six years old when a family friend gave him his first harmonica. "I came from an area where every kid on the block had a harmonica", he remembers. He grew up listening to Danish radio, enjoying all types of music and cites Ray Charles as the biggest influence from that pe...
2020-04-1045 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardSunny and Warm Staycation Day with Bruce HilliardAll is well in Mukilteo USA. Here is an episode dedicated to five songs from recent episodes. I had to wear shades.
2020-04-0921 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThe Socially Distanced Symphony Show with Bruce HilliardThe kids aren't going back to school this year. In Washington state 1.2 million students are making history. The president is busy approving drugs and plumbers are dealing with t-shirt clogged toilets.There has been a concern with the at-home news journalists that you can only see from the waist up and I assure you, I’m wearing pants.I was on the fence with that joke just like I am with this episode, the Social Distancing Episode. I’m seeing a reality show pilot here.I’d comment on that but my job is to...
2020-04-0615 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardFitzsimon and Brogan -- A New Album At Last! -- with Bruce Hilliard[caption id="attachment_2267" align="alignright" width="99"] Songwriter Neil Fitzsimon.[/caption]I’m so happy to have today’s guest, speaking to us from the Isle of Wight in England, musician and songwriter Neil Fitzsimon of Fitzsimon and Brogan. Neil writes the songs and plays the guitars while the love of his life Bee Brogan does the incredible vocals.[caption id="attachment_2268" align="alignleft" width="99"] Vocalist Bee Brogan.[/caption]Neil speaks names like Pat Collier. He’s the engineer/producer/musician that has a huge body of work, probably best known for “Walking On Sunshine...
2020-04-0236 min
Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMore Lost Tapes ~ Amberain Plays "Portrait" and "Stolen Space" with Bruce HilliardThere's a guy outside of my window throwing a knife at a tree. For the love of gaawwwd! Are we watching too much TV? NAAA!!I saw Kelly Clarkson with no makeup (she actually looks better), Jon Bon Jovi singing old and unplugged and news reporters getting a chance to show off their journalistic prowess.Some of the elected officials are showing actual sincere concern and not just lame PR “vote for me” rhetoric. That may be more unprecedented than the outbreak. People are stepping up.The healthcare heroes are truly worthy of our...
2020-03-3019 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardLife Is Like a Box of Chocolates and Original Music with Bruce HilliardHi and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast. I know things will get better each day. We know what to do. I continue to be Bruce Hilliard and I’m up at the usual time, I run in the nearby community soccer area, do my exercises, pet the neighbors’ dogs, then I’m back into my humble apartment.Yep, an apartment. That’s where I record the podcast and all of my music. If you listen closely, you can hear, at least on the podcast, kids screaming, dogs barking, golf balls bouncing off my wall (only once in...
2020-03-2815 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardI Don't Wanna, Swingin' Big Momma and Wink Dinkerson with Bruce HilliardBruce: And I say to myself What a Wonderful World despite the crap for putting up with right now. But hey, not a big deal we've been through worse. And it could get worse. Who knows? I think the main thing to make note of here is that we're all getting along and making it happen. I have confidence that in time we’ll forget about blame and just get on with it. Fix it! Less rants, more dance.But let’s not get confused and social dance rather than social distance. And to commemorate this notable social...
2020-03-2116 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardDJ and Hitmaker Wink Dinkerson with Bruce HilliardI hope all of my friends out there in podcast land are happy and healthy. And thank you all for participating in this reality staycation sci-fi movie with me. It’s going viral...and I’m sitting here by myself wearing a body condom.I had a productive day in my Mukilteo hideout today. I produced some podcast content, wrote a song and watched Tommy Boy...again.Michelle Brock: Listen up, you little spazoids! I know where you live and I've seen where you sleep. I swear to everything holy that your mothers will cry when...
2020-03-2016 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"Better Each Day"--The Song and Backstory with Bruce HilliardHey there Corona survivors, Bruce Hilliard here from the Better Each Day music room wishing everyone the best of health. I’m known to make fun of everything, especially myself, but this is one of those times where humor, although a great power, is superseded with a shroud of “be careful, be healthy, be educated” for everyone. So butter my butt and call me a biscuit, make it better each day. And that’s what episode number 117 is about.And what a brilliant segue here. This episode is about the remake of the intro/outro music I wrote an...
2020-03-1208 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardTeri Wade "Write Yourself Into Your Dreams" with Bruce HilliardHey friends, Bruce here from the Better Each Day library talking about a book authored by today’s guest Teri Wade. It’s been a while since I’ve hosted an author but this topic seems to be fitting, if not required reading in light of not only myself, but a world that needs to be carefully thinking and writing about where we’ve been and where we’re going.Here’s the basic breakdown...and I’m quoting here: "What if the only thing standing between you and your dreams was your old story? The premise of...
2020-03-0426 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAmberain 70s, Buffalo, Hear Me Calling and Sandy's Birthday with Bruce HilliardHey friends, Bruce here from Better Each Day Land on February 27th, 2020. In this episode we’re going to go back in time to 1976 when I had the honor of working with Amberain, a band comprised of the guy who engineered and mixed these recordings, my brother Gary Hilliard...and Steve Tobeck, Rick Fry, Rich Tippet, brothers Dick and Sandy Murchy, and yours truly. And this is a special Happy Birthday Hallmark card to Sandy, the best vocalist ever and my best bud since kindergarten at the University of Alexander Young Elementary School in Aberdeen Washington....
2020-02-2819 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce Hilliard"Hold On" Old and New--Select Your Favorite Version with Bruce HilliardHi, Bruce Hilliard here with an opportunity to exercise your voting rights. On this show we can do anything we want so let’s have some fun. I know that’s a podcasty thing to say but it’s my show and I’ll ride that pony until I’m impeached. [caption id="attachment_3474" align="alignright" width="256"] Bruce Hilliard sporting the funky chapeau.[/caption]But don’t get ahead of me here on the voting thing. We’re voting on two versions of a song. That's all. This has nothing to do with me, save for the fact th...
2020-01-3115 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAmberain ~ In the Morning, Dear Sissy, I Don't Wanna Say Goodbye with Bruce HilliardAmberain! A group comprised of friends, neighbors, work colleagues and brothers. Rick, Rick, Dick, Steve, Sandy and Bruce. Drummer Rick Tippet, guitarist Rick Fry and manager and impresario Rick Burgess are sadly gone. The Ricks are gone. Rock’n’Roll heaven. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Young Street Bridge, now Kurt's memorial park.[/caption][caption id="" align="alignright" width="300"] The rental house/studio up the Wishkah River on 2nd Street.[/caption]These songs were recorded on good old quarter inch reel to reel tape and ended up on a Memorex cassette tape. So, w...
2020-01-2319 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMidnight Arrow, California and Doesn't Anybody Fall In Love with Bruce HilliardHey friends, Bruce here. In this episode we’re going to talk about three of my songs: Midnight Arrow, California and one called Doesn’t Anybody Fall In Love No More.There has been an unbelievably good audience response with prior episodes that featured my songs. Probably because so many of my listeners have followed the show for over two years and heard me interview others and feature their work but not mine...until recently. The first two songs are going to be coupled together like train cars. They’re both in the key of G and...
2020-01-1614 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardAmberain--A Brief History and a Lost Cassette Tape with Bruce HilliardWelcome the 20s with a look back to the 70s. Start out with six guys...the Rockles, add sound engineer Gary Hilliard and manager Rick Burgess, shake well and morph into Amberain.(L-R clockwise) Dick Murchy, keyboards; Steve Tobeck, bass; Bruce Hilliard, guitar; Sandy Murchy, lead vocals; Rick Fry, guitar; and Rick Tippet,drums. Everybody added vocals. Everybody added their love to the original material. Please enjoy songs "Everybody", "It's Only For the Best" and "On the Moon", all rescued from a lost cassette tape.
2020-01-0330 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardThanks To 2019, Welcome 2020 with Songs by Bruce HilliardHost Bruce Hilliard here. I created the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show so there’s a platform and an audience for creative people like you to share your work. It’s the World’s Got Talent Show where everyone wins.I believe everybody can write and writing our thoughts is a healthy thing to do. Writing music is no different, maybe better. Music and songs have a universal way of connecting with people like no other form of sharing thoughts and emotions. I think the backstories about the song and where the writer is coming from enhances t...
2019-12-2712 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardDear Santa, Mrs. Claus and Internet Dating with Bruce HilliardHost Bruce Hilliard writes an audio letter to the sexiest man alive 2019, Santa Claus of course, and asks how he hooked up with Mrs. Claus. Was it Mythological.com? Should internet dating be on Bruce's Christmas list? Here's the real fake news.Also, an encore Jingle Bells from the Flat River Band and a new song from Bruce Hilliard, California.
2019-12-0520 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardWill Black, Family, Health, Rock and Business with Bruce HilliardCanadian singer-songwriter Will Black crafts timeless, high-energy tunes rooted in chord-driven, melodic rock n’ roll. Layers of instrumental harmonies and thoughtful lyrics explore love, lust and heartbreak and honor the classic rock songwriters that continue to inspire him including Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams and John Mellencamp. Through magnetic live performances that channel the power of commanding entertainers such as the Rolling Stones, Prince and Bon Jovi, Will pulls audiences into his rock guitar-infused orbit. His latest album Cry Like Hell is a diverse collection of tunes, which provide personal insight into some of his life’s many plot twists.
Will’s creat...
2019-05-1056 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardGillian Gaar On The Sub Pop Records Story with Bruce HilliardSub Pop Records has released early recordings with bands such as Green River, Nirvana, Soundgarden and more. The label was founded by Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman in the 80's. The new book by Gillian Gaar illustrates the record label founders' journey from music lovers to becoming pioneers of one of the most influential independent record companies to date.Gillian talks about her first-hand interviews and research that went into making the book. She was there as history unfurled and could probably talk all day on the subject but this is a half hour teaser. If you wa...
2018-11-3034 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardRay Dafrico "Tunnel Visions" with Bruce HilliardRay Dafrico - A founding member of legendary Atlanta bands The Nightporters and later Kathleen Turner Overdrive. Guitarist, singer, songwriter Ray Dafrico has been playing original music professionally since April of 1981. He has toured, opened for or performed with artists such as The Clash, The Ramones, The Replacements, REM, Bo Diddley, Joan Jett, Weird Al Yankovic, Peter Tork and more. In the studio he has worked with Peter Buck (REM), Rob Fraboni (Bob Dylan, The Band Beach Boys), Brendan O'Brian (Bruce Springsteen) and Pierre De Beauport (The Rolling Stones).
It sounds like a lifetime of chasing the rock and roll drea...
2018-11-0236 minBetter Each Day Podcast Radio Show with Bruce HilliardMeghan Cary Getting Us Together with Bruce HilliardMeghan's interviews are on top of the standouts of the previous 52 shows. Her positive approach to life and her gift to share it in songs and stories embrace what this podcast is all about. My part is to provide a platform for my guests. The guests do the rest. With Meghan, you just hit record and sit back, listen and feel good.
Melissa Etheridge singing Bruce Springsteen to a Paul Simon groove is what her press kit says. Again, listen, sit back and feel good. She sounds original and authentic. Known for her unabashed willingness to connect with her audience...
2018-10-0529 min