I know a lot of you have heard me talk about Bill Dees. Bill is a true original, one-of-a-kind piece of Rock and Roll history. He is best known for his work as a co-writer with Roy Orbison on big songs like “It’s Over” and “Oh, Pretty Woman”. His songs have been recorded by [...]

Earlier today, I was over at Dave’s place, Sans Direction, reading his post, “Alt-Country: The Missing Years”. Dave pointed out that Gibson Guitars has published a list of the “Top 5 Essential Alt-Country albums” and coming in at number four was Wilco’s “Being There”. By cosmic coincidence, as I was reading the post, my good [...]

This is nice. Congratulations to my friend Bill Dees and his old songwriting partner Roy Orbison. According to Variety, Roy’s 1964 recording of “Oh, Pretty Woman” (Bill co-wrote the song and sang harmony on the record) has been added to the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.
Twenty-five selections were added to the National Recording Registry [...]