Always do your very best to live a life you’re proud of, and if it falls short, have the strength to start over again. I used Better Each Day as my mantra. In the words of 19th century psychologist and pharmacist Emile Coue: “Everyday in every way, I’m getting better and better.” So here’s the spoiler. I moved to Mukilteo WA based on a gut feeling …

Hey to all the Better Each Day Listeners, this is Bruce and welcome to episode 251. Welcome to the show but most importantly welcome to the first annual year end Christmas party where we feature a special theme. Now keep in mind that I am, and apparently always will be, a hopeless romantic love song writing fool. One thing we can all agree on is th…

Hey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. This is a special episode with the ghost of John Oates past. I was reflecting on a conversation from a while back where we talked about band names, the Beatles and Hall and Oates being two of them, and the famous Abandoned Luncheonette. So here are a cou…

Hey folks and welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show with your host, Bruce Hilliard. We had a storm here in Mukilteo WA that knocked out our power yesterday. I was reduced to a pencil and an acoustic guitar, two of the best inventions ever. This song was the result. Runaway Thinking again of leaving it all behind Packing my things and wo…

Bruce Hilliard speaking. The leaves are falling, times are a-changin’ and I heard Mr. Wines took the coda. My most influential band director Mr. Wines passed away a few days ago. In music, a coda is a passage that brings a piece of music to an end. It may be as simple as a few measures, or as complex as an entire section. This guy was an entire opu…

The weather is changing, the leaves are too, here are my songs just for you. Ahh, to be a brilliant master of rhyme. Rhyme’s disease. And now…from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Toccata in D minor to my Roses and Strawberry Rain in D major. Roses and Strawberry Rain Just To Know You Sweetest Thing Kerri Pollyanna Endless Rain Thanks for listening!…

When I was a little kid I watched American Bandstand because I liked the songs Dick Clark and company selected for his top hits it’s what the kids want countdown. Based on what I heard, I walked downtown to Aub Schmidt’s music store with a dollar in coins and bought a 45. Being a fan of vocal harmonies, Beach Boys and Four Seasonsy stuff, I heard t…

Thanks for listening. I've had a few requests for some original music...and maybe a new one. Here it is, Polyanna: Pollyanna You don’t even know me , so how can you show me what to do You don’t even need me, if only for less lonely night You shouldn’t go on thinking we’ll be someday And turn that darkness into day? I don’t know (Chorus) Pollyanna w…

Me and my buddies from shop class sang this at the junior high talent assembly. Our band was the Beach Balls, vetoed by the elder teacher with glitzy cat-eye glasses that hovered over the production and basically censored our really good work. The word “balls” was too radical so I suggested instead of Beach Balls, how about the Sons of the Beaches?…

Hey everyone and we have a surprise in store for us. I, while looking through my memorabilia for a Johnny Quest outdoor horizons adventure club card (made that up) I ran across an old brown box full of 45s. So, randomly, here are ten or eleven 45 r.p.m. records played on a 1972 turntable I found while looking for my retainer. I was into Santana/Pag…

We don’t smoke and we don’t chew, we’re the class of ‘72. I was honored to play at an Aberdeen High School class reunion 1972 and had a great time and I’m not surprised. The acoustics in the party venue well…as big boomy rooms go, the sound wasn’t optimum so to those who couldn’t hear the troubadour, this is for you.…

Hey everyone! And welcome to the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show…the show that features recording artists and their work. That’s what we usually do but this episode is all about a party I’ll be playing in a week. It’s taking me back home to Aberdeen Washington or Warshington for the washing impaired. Aberdeen, the town that put the Gator on the …

Hey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s guest Tommi Tikka with a message to go to the Born Free Foundation and he and several generous and concerned musicians have donated time and music to the cause…cause that’s what we do. Please kick back and listen to our chat and music from the Born Free climate change project. Born Free Climate Change Contribut…

Hey, it's Bruce Hilliard with today’s most excellent guest Steve Blaze, lead guitarist in of one of the hottest rock bands I’ve heard in years, Lillian Axe. Their latest album From Womb To Tomb will be released on CD on August 19 by Global Rock Records. This is the band’s first new album in ten years and it comes ahead of their first UK headline da…

Hey it's Bruce and come see me in concert at the Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett WA on Saturday July 23rd (that’s 2022) at 8:00. And please welcome today’s guest Silvano Ancelotti…From Italy, its Uncle Bard and the Dirty Bastards and some of the best Irish pub music you’ll ever hear. Folk/Rock music, spiced up with Irish Trad! Based in the nor…

It’s a Thursday edition of the Better Each Day Podcast Radio Show and here’s the reason. The Zombies are in town. Live at the Historic Everett Theater tomorrow night at 7:00 PM, tickets are still available. And next week Saturday July 23rd I’ll be at Black Lab Gallery and Bar in Everett…two blocks away from the Zombies’ show the week prior so you c…

Asher began classical violin training at the tender age of 2 and had already performed with the Buffalo philharmonic by age 13. Asher’s expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to a career as a soloist in demand, performing at venues such as Madison Square Garden, Carnegie, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continent…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Flood Dud, yes me, to talk about blind dates. You can say what you want about them, or even worse….go on one. This can be a marathon event to locate someone you like but with the right amount of perseverance I’ll be finding a mate. There’s no better defining moment between artificia…

Chuck Wright is today’s guest. When Chuck is not fighting crime by night, he is best known as the bassist from Quiet Riot! Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard and today’s guest Chuck Wright, to talk about his new and first solo album, or project as he refers to it, Chuck Wright’s Sheltering Sky. Chuck is proud and excited to release hi…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard telling you they tattooed her in darkness. That is a line from Goddess Reborn, a song we’ll hear and hear all about from guest and rockin’ it James Carr. James is the front for the James Carr Band. If you get a chance, check them out. Very good. James Carr plays some kick ass guitar and what a great …

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard. I’m here all week, tip your waitresses and for all your painting needs? Welcome to my day gig. Please select a color from your favorite food groups. Raspberry red, avocado or Huskie purple , and how shiny you like your sheen. We have Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and even washingma sheen. It's a DYI p…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with guest Phil Tittle. Phil Tittle is a singer-songwriter based out of Pensacola, Florida. His music has traces of blues, country, rock, and singer-songwriter influences that fit nicely into the Americana genre. ​Phil's first studio album, “All Over the Map” was released in 2019 under his band's na…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, with a warm spring day and actually you don’t need to point out that you’re not “being here” with me. But in spirit with ears to listen and enjoy a few original songs. Many of the Better Each Day shows are musician interviews with the famous or the hopefuls. I love em all but here’s some of the musi…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, and my guest, guitar man Greg Martin of the Kentucky Headhunters. As I'm looking out my studio window (the studio that’s my kitchen and bedroom too) I see a coyote. I live on the Harbour Pointe Golf Club’s ninth hole where sometimes I see people stopping off in the bushes to drain their veins but ot…

Thank you for being here with me, Bruce Hilliard, friend of those who want no friends and part-time dressmaker’s dummy. I’d like to thank DJ Richard Dee from Aberdeen radio for that tag and a shoutout to KOSW Ocean Shores for playing my show every Saturday morning. We’re doing a couple of my darker songs, Pawn Shop Boulevard and Endless Rain follow…

I’m Bruce Hilliard, born in Seattle and raised by wolves and gorillas in a small timber town called Aberdeen Washington. Not Aberdeen Scotland, Maryland, South Dakota or any of the others. The Aberdeen that’s best known for logging, fishing and mills. It has a huge correctional facility, more than their share of the homeless population and dead end…

Hey hey hello from Better Each Day Land in my newly adopted hometown Mukilteo WA. The highly anticipated debut album from Riot Act, Closer To The Flame, is sure to please fans of the late 70s and early 80s era of Riot as well as fans of classic hard rock everywhere. There are bonus recordings featuring the final ever recordings of their original gu…

Hello from Mukilteo and hey it’s great to be back home where it’s warm. My buddy Paul from Aberdeen asked me to take a road trip to Helena Montana and I just returned to the warmest place I’ve ever known. My apartment on a St. Patrick’s green golf course. Bruce “The Snow Blower” Hilliard here and not since my winters at WSU have I witnessed cold li…

Hello my little belly buttons and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Hilliard, the best looking face you’ll ever hear. This is the podcast where musicians talk about their music and backstories. But due to the influx of comments and suggestions for more tales with tunes and not so many interviews with top notch celebrity rock sta…

Hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast with me, Bruce Andrew Hilliard. Andrew came from my grandpa Andy Hilliard. He could chew Copenhagen all day without spitting, put horseradish on everything and drank Listerine. Last week I was invited to a 90th birthday party for a man that was a second dad to me. He was actually my best buddy’s dad,…

Hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where you can meet today's guest Greg Martin, musician, radio personality and kindred spirit I came to realize as I edited this episode. Greg and I trailed off several times. I kept most of the chat and hope you find it interesting. The Kentucky Headhunters are an American country rock and Southern r…

UK blues/rock band Bonham-Bullick is going to release its self-titled new album on April 29. Bonham-Bullick is Deborah Bonham on vocals and Peter Bullick on lead guitar. Today’s guest is the Bonham half. recording artist Deborah Bonham, who is the sister of the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham and the aunt of drummer Jason Bonham who is the cu…

Hello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ share their backstories and their music and any embarrassing moments they care to share. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. The '60s — an era when television was still a modern marvel, and viewers only had a few channels to choose from — TV variety s…

Hello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. I’ve had the pleasure of producing this show for over five years without the use of sponsors. Why, you ask. Because I’m not selling out for anyo…

Hello hello hello and welcome to the Better Each Day podcast where recording artists’ tell you the backstories and their music plays a few tales of its own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and thank you for being here. Today's guest, Dale Bozzio is the co-founder and lead singer of Missing Persons, one of the 80s most distinctive bands…set apart by her distinct…

Hello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here. The opening minute was me inappropriately flirting with today’s guest. Carla Williams wanted to be a country music singer from the beginning. She put her dreams on hold to raise four …

Hello hello hello and welcome to a new year of recording artists’ backstories and music plus a few tales of my own. I’m Bruce Hilliard and I thank you for being here. It’s heading into even more short days and long nights in Aberdeen. The rain always lives up to its reputation at the foot of a national rain forest that gets up to 150 inches in the …

Hello hello and Happy New Year to all. Recently I had the pleasure of talking to a couple of former residents of my childhood home on 10th street in Aberdeen WA. They lived there as kids in the late fifties and moved out when their father died in 1960. For years I wondered what had happened to those kids, roughly my age, that lived there before us.…

Hello hello and Merry Christmas to all. There’s been a generous response from our listeners regarding hometown nostalgia material on the show. Being from middle- everything Aberdeen WA in the early baby boomer years, there are endless small town-everywhere stories for you. I somehow gravitate to stories about my Dad, Dr. Glenn A. Hilliard, DVM. (re…

Hello hello hello and merry Christmas from the corner of Christmas Street and Better Each Day. Come on along and take a walk with me. You're here just in time for an eggnog and my Christmas 2021 song Hello Hello Hello. It's about being committed to the Christmas fruit cake boom boom room for believing in Santa. “I believe in Santa Claus and giving.…

Hello hello hello and merry Christmas from the groovin’ with the tunes of Rube Tubin and the Rondonnas Better Each Day toy shop. It's a jolly little shop where each Christmas I write a new song for the occasion. It’s a time when I compare my music to the classics like the number one selling single of all time, White Christmas. If that doesn’t humbl…

You’ll discover: How to effectively infuse emotion into mastered techniques. A unique approach to memorizing a new piece– then overcoming stage fright. Life lessons to rekindle lost inspiration. Three necessary ingredients for honing natural aural acumen and play by ear. The beginners course into a commercial music career. You’ve practiced the clas…

When I was 2-years-old the Hilliard family, in accordance with my life plan as dictated by me as soon as I was potty trained, moved west from Bellevue, Washington, to a small timber town twenty minutes from the coast. While in Bellevue we lived in a neighborhood that is a chip shot from Microsoft campuses today. Maybe we should have stayed there bu…

Welcome times a trillion to the 10th degree. I’m the familiar voice of Bruce Hilliard and today’s show is Bruce Songs By Request. These are selfie recordings, all written, performed, recorded, mixed and blessed with fairy dust by me. Be sure to click in on Thanksgiving: Bruce’s High School Football Adventure this Thanksgiving. It’s a fun look at my…

Welcome to a very special Better Each Day show, with the one and only drummer of one of the original British Invasion bands, a pioneer blues/rock band that gave us Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. Couldn’t they get anybody good? And Jimmy Page just prior to forming Led Zeppelin. Well we’re talking about a Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame band that w…

Hello hello, can you see me one more time? The words of wisdom that open up any conversation, someone summoning you from the Mother Ship: “Hello, anyone home?” Without ever hearing this song (I’ll play it for you eventually, after I fulfill my lifetime goal of explaining my lyrics)...without even so much as a quick listen on your device to this lov…

Is it us or does this Pacific Northwest child of music sound a touch like Jackson Browne? Singer, songwriter and performing artist Ian Jones is releasing a new EP on October 22nd. Being a Pacific Northwest kinda guy, Ian calls his latest work, Evergreens. That’s fitting for fifty-one-year-old Ian Jones who you’ll hear in this interview is young and…

Singer, songwriter and performing artist Ian Jones is releasing a new EP on October 22nd. Being a Pacific Northwest kinda guy, Ian calls his latest work, Evergreens. That’s fitting for fifty-one-year-old Ian Jones who you’ll hear in this interview is young and ever green, like his music. His EP drops October 22nd and in honor of that occasion, Ian …

As drummer for Vanilla Fudge, Carmine Appice set the grooves for the groundbreaking band‘s 1967 psychedelic debut, inadvertently inventing Stoner Rock in the process. The Fudge had no precedent. The band was totally unique. No rock group, up until that point, had ever took poetic license with well known pop tunes like the Beatles “Eleanor Rigby” an…

I have never worked up a full set with a female vocalist. And some of my original songs have never been played outside of the recording studio, and with me doing all the parts. So, why not mortally wound two Byrds with one stone and audition at least session singers based on how well they interpret and perform my songs. Then rehearse well, play liv…