Welcome to Bill Hartwell Music ! 

New Shows with the Country Band

  Country Music fans!  I am now playing in a Country cover band, currently named "Coyote Gulch".  We are playing Friday the 19th and Saturday the 20th of June. The last time we played there, they had their biggest night ever!  The place is called Dons Cocktail Lounge and the address is 13321 Highway Business Rt 8,  El Cajon CA.   Come on out and kick up your heels!

My CD 'Better Than Never" is now listed and available for sale at a site called http://cdbaby.com/cd/billhartwell.   This is a great site that handles some of the marketing and all of the payment pieces as well as providing l-o-n-g  clips of the songs to listen to.  You can buy the whole CD or just pay for and download specific songs.  If you feel like it, log in to their site (easy to do) and write a review of the CD.  It always helps to have those testimonials if you liked the music.  I would appreciate it!  Right now only the first CD,  'Better Than Never' is out there but 'American Summer' will be available real soon.  Tell your friends, tell anyone and everyone!  It's a great site for musicians trying to get their songs out to the public.  The other new place is on that internet phenomenon Myspace.com.  I have a site set up there at www.myspace.com/billhartwell.  Check it out and connect in and 'be my friend'!! Please share these 2 links with your friends and help me get some music out there around the world! 

The new collecftion of songs /CD  titled "American Summer" is done...well, it is never really done as there is always something else I would like to do to the songs but I don't want to get caught in the analysis paralysis mode.  You can read all the lyrics in the LYRICS section and there is a little background about the songs in the NEWS section  titled About American Summer

I am still working on the cover but this is the temporary look of the CD...

A 2nd edition of a biograpy of Steve Goodman  titled "Steve Goodman: Facing the Music" has been recently released.  The author , Clay Eals, has included my song "Best Friend I Never Knew" in the 'On The Record' section at the back of the book that lists songs that have been written about Steve.  It is a great book and the definitive biography of Steves life.  You can see the details on Clay's website www.clayeals.com.

Thanks to all who showed up for the video filming concert Saturday night.  Hope to get some clips posted soon!

Well, it's a slow process but I have added a new song to the download section as I continue to work on getting the new collection of songs together.  I don't have a title for the new CD but the songs are coming together.   Thanks for checking it out and let me know what you think.   (1/11/08)

There are 5 songs  from Better Than Never to download...for Free!  The only thing I would ask is, that if you download a song or songs, drop me a note and tell me what you think.  I do appreciate the feedback.  Also, check out the new Lyrics section.  All the words of songs on Better Than  Never

   The CD is titled Better Than Never  and this is the cover