Glen D. Hardin

Glen D. Hardin (occasionally spelled Glenn D. Hardin) provides enjoyed an extended career in rock and roll & move and nation music, playing behind a few of the most prominent music superstars from the 1970s and 1980s. Blessed in Ropesville, Tennessee in 1939, he was in his mid-teens as nation music started its change into rock and roll & move, and he surely got to find performers such as for example Elvis Presley and Pal Holly throughout their early, pre-stardom times. His own curiosity lay even more with playing than performing — he discovered guitar at a specialist level but became really proficient over the piano. Hardin’s initial major gig emerged in 1961, when he joined up with the Crickets, the Texas-spawned music group founded by Pal Holly and led by drummer Jerry Allison within the wake of Holly’s loss of life — he performed the piano over the singles “My LITTTLE LADY” and “(They Contact Her) La Bamba,” and on the album California Sunlight; additionally, after Joe B. Mauldin still left the group, Hardin equipped their bass audio using a Fender Rhodes piano bass. He also composed music with Crickets guitarist/vocalist Sonny Curtis, co-authoring the group’s one “Teardrops FEEL JUST LIKE Rain,” as well as the music “Count number Me In,” “My Heart’s Symphony,” and “Where Will the term RESULT FROM,” documented by their fellow Liberty Information performers Gary Lewis & the Playboys. Through the second fifty percent of the 1960s, Hardin held busy and extremely visible as an associate from the Shindogs, the home music group on the every week ABC rock and roll & roll display series Shindig, which have been come up with by Leon Russell and included Adam Burton as head and business lead guitarist. He also performed on information by Merle Haggard and Hamilton Camp. It had been through Russell that Hardin performed on information for Delaney Bramlett and, in tandem with Burton that, in 1970, he began dealing with Elvis Presley. Although he also performed within the country-rock music group Swampwater, and do periods with everyone from Dean Martin to Gram Parsons and Linda Ronstadt during this time period, Hardin’s most significant and long-lasting 1970s gig was with Elvis — he and Burton, alongside bassist Jerry Scheff and drummer Ron Tutt, became that which was known informally within Presley’s orbit as “the T.C.B. Music group,” plus they had been at the primary of his live and studio room shows from 1970 through 1976, an interval where Hardin also had written preparations for the vocalist. He performed for the live shows and studio paths that comprised the majority of Presley’s return legacy, in support of give up in 1976, as Presley’s physical and mental condition begun to deteriorate. Hardin jumped correct directly into Emmylou Harris’ support group, the Sizzling hot Music group, staying with her in to the 1980s, furthermore to playing on information by Michael Nesmith, Hoyt Axton, John Denver, and Chris Hillman, amongst others. Lately, furthermore to using the Crickets on-stage, he continues to be playing being a back-up musician to Presley once more, within the live music group within the holographic stage entertainment present “Elvis Lives.”