Blues Rock Guitarist Steve Hill Releases New Video ‘Don’t Let The Truth Get In The Way (of a Good Story)’

Acclaimed Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter Steve Hill recently celebrated his 25th year as a recording artist with his 12th album Dear Illusion, released by No Label Records on November 11 plus a Limited Edition Comic Book.

“Don’t Let The Truth Get In The Way (Of A Good Story)” is a smashing blues/rock track packed with cool riffs, a big chorus, and scorching lead guitar work. Hill gets his engine on the pipe from the first downbeat and doesn’t let up for an instant. The music video is a blast, too, combining the story of an Everyman lost in TV fantasies with live footage of Hill and friends performing the song. The lyrics carry a media-savvy message that’s completely relevant to modern life and let the tune function on a deeper level. Hill is always compelling and “Don’t Let The Truth Get In The Way (Of A Good Story)” keeps that tradition alive and kicking.

Watch “Don’t Let The Truth Get In The Way (Of A Good Story)

 
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But that’s not all. To make the new album an even bigger means for celebration, Steve is releasing the limited-edition Dear Illusion comic book. Check out the comic book Here 
The digital edition of the comic is available from Here

“I’ve been dreaming doing a comic book for a long time,” reflects Steve. “Before I got into music, drawing was my passion. I wanted to write comics. I’ve collected them sporadically all my life until five years ago when it became an obsession. I think that comics are a great artform. It’s like song writing, in that they tell a story in a short period of time. I get feelings out of some comics the same way that I get feelings from music. If you’ve read Alan Moore, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, or Ed Brubaker, you know what I’m talking about.

“I got in touch with comic book artist Rob Cannon through a mutual connection. He seemed like a good candidate to draw the cover of my previous album, Desert Trip. He did a fantastic job. I love that album cover. When the time came for Dear Illusion, it was obvious he was the go-to guy. What he did was even better than the one before. From there, the next logical step was the comic. He took the themes from the album, the visual landscape from Desert Trip and made it a metaphoric science fiction story that I could never have thought of, while retaining the essence and the meaning of the songs. That’s art.”

Known over the last ten years as a one-man band, on Dear Illusion, the multi-instrumentalist shares the spotlight with a horn section, The Devil Horns, as well as seven-time UK Blues Awards Drummer of the Year, Wayne Proctor (A.A. Williams, Oli Brown, King King, Ben Poole). Proctor also mixed and mastered the upcoming record.

He spent the next 15 years touring across Canada and Europe, releasing albums with different line-ups, until he became a one-man band in 2012. Following the success of his JUNO-nominated Solo Recordings Volume 1, which also won at the International Blues Challenge in 2013, Solo Recordings Volume 2 won the Juno Award and seven Maple Blues Awards in 2014-2015. It was followed by Solo Recordings Volume 3 in 2016 which has had close to six million streams on Spotify so far. In 2018, he released The One-Man Blues Rock Band. The live album shows an artist at the top of his game. It comes to no surprise that the Montreal Gazette has referred to Steve Hill as “the meanest guitar player in Canada.”

A guitar stylist with a wide musical vocabulary, he has performed over 2,500 concerts in many configurations. For the past 10 years, he has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe supporting his critically acclaimed Solo Recordings albums trilogy and his one-man band show. When it comes to one-man bands, Steve Hill has no limits. Anything goes. He is the true exponent of a one-man band. Steve performs standing up while singing and playing guitar, his feet playing bass drum, snare drum and with a drumstick fused to the head of his trusty guitar to hit the hi-hats and a cymbal. Germany’s Guitar Magazine proclaimed Steve as being “the most spectacular one-man band on the planet.”

Over the years, Steve has shared the stage with many of his heroes, including Ray Charles, B.B. King, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan, and ZZ Top, to name a few, and has played at some of Canada’s biggest music festivals. With 12 albums of original songs to his name, he has explored everything from Rock, Country, Folk, Metal, Jazz, while continuing to fuse it all with his first love, the Blues.

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