FROM PATSY CLINE TO GRETA VALENTINE

Well, here it is, the first post on the new Dill Records blog! Not quite sure what "Dill Records" is? Allow me to clarify. Ten years ago, after decades of playing pedal steel guitar on the road with some of the best and most respected country and gospel musicians out of Nashville, my father, Ralph Dill decided to settle down in Jesup, Georgia and start his own recording studio. In the ensuing decade, my father's dream of offering other musicians and singers a place in which they can express themselves artistically without going broke in the process metamorphosed into a reality. Not only that, but after over twenty years apart, my father and I have reconnected and are working together to make this all happen. And as Dill Records continues to evolve and expand over the coming weeks and months, I'll be posting updates as well as sharing selected anecdotes about my father's long, fascinating journey down the back roads of country music onto the sunlit stretches of highway that wind through the southern gospel land. It's been quite a trip for a native Mainer who bought his first guitar when World War II was still going on! I hope you'll keep checking back to hear more about it, and to stay informed of the goings on here at Dill Records. Because, if you love music, you're already one of us!