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ORIGINALLY FROM: San Marcos, Texas
INSTRUMENT: Drums
ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: Guitar
PERSON WHO MOST INFLUENCED YOUR MUSIC CAREER: Lefty Frizzell, Bobby Lord, B.B. King.
FAVORITE SONG: “A Song For You” by Leon Russell
FAVORITE ARTIST: Buck Owens, Leon Russell
FIRST ALBUM PURCHASED: ”Meet The Beatles”
WEBSITE: www.artfoundango.com
When approaching catering & asking yourself "What am I going to have for dinner" what do you always hope won't be the answer? Lima Beans and Beets.
What have you lost on the road that you would most like to retrieve? An old leather lunch box I found near a coal mine in Wales.
Were you ever in a school play? Almost. In grade school I was supposed to come on stage and kiss a girl during the play but chickened out.
What type of music do you dislike the most? Death Metal.
Favorite pizza topping? Jalapeno
All time favorite Saturday Night Live character? “Two Wild and Crazy Guys!”
File your taxes at the beginning of the year or wait until April 15th? I always get an extension so I can put off the pain as long as possible.
Do you have a pre-show ritual and if so what is it? I look in the bathroom mirror and question my sanity.
Favorite song to karaoke to? “Stand By My Woman Man.”
Dance halls or County Fairs/Festival? Festivals. No, fairs. No, I’m pretty sure it would be dance halls.
If you were to rename the band, what would you name them? Something with the word “Molalla” in it. I love the name of that Oregon town.
If you were to choose another profession what would it be? Archaeologist
Jessica Simpson or Britney Spears? Neither. I a one-woman man.
Who makes the best hamburger in the Willamette Valley? I haven’t found it yet.
If you could choose the TV channel on the bus – what channel would everyone else be watching? Jerry Springer reruns.
If you could star in a movie who would your female (or male if you're a girl ;) co-star be? Ann Margaret
If they were to make a movie about your life who would you wish they would cast as you? Boris Karloff
Biography
Oregon Valley Boys bandleader, drummer and lead vocalist Randy Hill is an Austin, Texas native who moved to Oregon with his wife Dawn in 2004 to “escape the heat, humidity and roaches the size of armadillos.”
Hill started playing drums as a young boy growing up on a central Texas farm approximately 30 miles south of Austin. During that time period, he was introduced to a variety of music via a stack of old 78s that belonged to his grandfather; artists like, B.B. King, Smiley Lewis, Bobby Lord, Gene Autry and the Old Smoky Twins. Trips to the Club 21 dance hall in nearby Uhland, Texas on Saturday nights with his parents sewed the seeds of a lifetime love of classic country music and the blues.
Through the years of performing, Hill has shared the stage with some of the legends of country and swing music; Johnny Rodriguez, George Strait, pedal steel legend Jimmy Day, Texas Tornado’s Augie Meyers, Terri Gibbs, Stan Perkins (son of rockabilly legend, Carl Perkins) and Hayden Vitera (Asleep At The Wheel).
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