Anne Hills
Anne Hills is an American folk singer-songwriter.
Hills was born in October, 1953, to a family of missionaries in Moradabad, India and grew up in Michigan. She studied at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, where she played in a band with Chris Brubeck and Peter Erskine. In 1976, she moved to Chicago and was a co-founder of the record label Hogeye Music. After releasing a few records on Hogeye, the label was bought out by Flying Fish Records in the mid-1980s. In 1984, Anne briefly was a member of a trio (along with Tom Paxton and Bob Gibson) known as the Best of Friends. In 1988 she began collaborating with Cindy Mangsen, with whom she released two duo albums. Together with Priscilla Herdman the three singers recorded as a trio in 1990 and again in 1997. In 1998, she contributed renditions to tribute albums for Pete Seeger and Phil Ochs. The 2000s saw her collaborating with Tom Paxton and singing in a fourpiece called Fourtold with Steve Gillette, Mangsen, and Michael Peter Smith.
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ALBUMS
- Beauty Attends: The Heartsongs of Opal Whiteley released: 2006
- Best of Friends released: 2004
- Never Grow Up released: 1998
- Bittersweet Street released: 1998
- Angle of the Light released: 1995
- Never Grow Old released: 1994
- October Child released: 1993
- Woman of a Calm Heart released: 1988
- At The Turning of the Year released:
- Under American Skies released:
- Voices of Winter released:
- Voices released:
- Don't Panic released:
Best of Friends
Released 2004- Sing for the Song
- Best of Friends
- Did You Hear John Hurt?
- Home to Me (Is Anywhere You Live)
- Poltical Writing (intro)
- The Death of Stephen Biko
- Bob and Tom's Collaboration (intro)
- And Loving You
- While You Sleep
- She Sits on the Table
- Let the Band Play Dixie
- Pilgrim Song
- Texas
- Panhandle Wind
- Reagan Ecology
- Something's Wrong With the Rain
- Ramblin' Boy
- Lawyers (intro)
- One Million Lawyers
- Bottle of Wine
Never Grow Up
Released 1998- Kitty Alone
- Now He's Sorry That He Spoke
- The Thinnest Man / Alice
- Froggy Went A-Courting
- Hudson River Steamboat
- Wait 'til the Clouds Roll By
- Chickens They're A-Crowin'
- The Dummy Line
- Where Did You Get That Hat?
- The Colorado Trail
- Hopalong Peter
- Master of the Sheepfold
- I've Got Rings on My Fingers
- Old Blue
- Watch the Stars / At the Gate of Heaven
Never Grow Old
Released 1994- Where We'll Never Grow Old
- Curtains of Night
- Richmond on the James
- Lost Jimmy Whalen
- Master Kilby
- Bill Morgan and His Gal
- Wolves a'Howlin'
- McKinley's Rag
- Lone Pilgrim
- Mary Anne
- The Housewife's Lament
- Light of Red and Green
- Pretty Sylvia
- Oh My Little Darlin'
- Railroading on the Great Divide
- Evening Shade
- Where We'll Never Grow Old
Voices of Winter
- Wintergrace
- Snow in the Street
- Raise the Dead of Wintertime
- Witch Hazel
- Serving Girl's Holiday
- Hanerot Halalu
- A-Roving on a Winter's Night
- Joy, Health, Love, and Peace / The Wren
- Unto You This Night
- The Frozen Logger / Proper Cup of Coffee
- Voices of Winter / Red and Green
- Hot Buttered Rum
- Mister Santa
- Chickadee
- More Wood
- Lo, How a Rose
Don't Panic
- Two of a Kind
- Rusty Old Red River
- Hound Dog
- Donna From Mobile
- Rye, New Hampshire
- Last Day of Pompeii
- Don't Explain
- John's Wife
- East Kentucky Mountains
- Johnson
- A Shadow Crossing the Land
- Long Time Travelin'
- The Water Is Wide/Wild Geese
- Dear Companion
- Mole in the Ground
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- While You Sleep
- Over the Mountain
- Hush Little Baby/Father's Lullabye
- The Panic Is On
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Where Have You Been
by: AnnualsThey call holidays an option for a reason
I heard you're coming back to life just for the fourth
I've been catching all your ghosts for every season
I pray to god you won't come back here anymore
do you pray with him, too?
They should deliver all my blessings
in small brown paper handbags near the porch
I wished I'd known that you were bleeding while I sat
and watched you reading with the lord
I read with him, too
Cause when you look at me
I'll be digesting your legs
cause I can hardly see
what's in front of me these days
and those days, too.
I've got to take what I'm making
and make into something
I've got to take what I'm making
and make into something
for you
I've got to break what I'm making
and turn it into nothing
I've got to break what I'm making
and turn it into nothing
for you