Until recently, singer Tim Bluhm (having released eight albums and played up upward of 2000 concerts) lived in a '95 Chevy Sportsvan. Far from the camera-clicking life of a rock star, he has drifted up and down the Golden State, skiing off of Mount Shasta, free-soloing Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne Meadows, telemark-traversing the Sierras, and surfing the cold Northern California coast. He wanders for days deep in the Grand Canyon and has spent months chasing waves in Hawaii, Costa Rica, Fiji, and New Zealand.

As frontman for the band Mother Hips, Bluhm (rhymes with room) pitched his tent on a plot of California's imagination and has been singing into the roar of the bulldozers ever since. But with a bittersweet yearning for the days of banditos and gold miners, and with a kinship with California's long-gone official state animal, this self-proclaimed "time-sick son of a grizzly bear" has sometimes gone unheard. Despite its fanatical West Coast following, the Mother Hips has never had a hit single, made a video, or got their picture in Rolling Stone.

In 2005, Bluhm releases the most stripped-down (and pure) recordings of his career. Backed only by his guitar, Bluhm recorded 'California Way' in two days. Producer Dan Prothero happened upon the session knowing little about Bluhm, and by day's end had decided to release the disc on his own Fog City Records, won over by the haunting collection of songs that he calls a "love-letter from and about a disappearing place."

- Mark Sundeen, Outside Magazine

Bluhm and Greg Loiacono finished up recording the second Ball-Point Birds record which will come out sometime in 2007. It was recorded at the same studio where 'BACK TO THE GROTTO' was recorded in 1991. In addition, Tim has been recording new songs, which will most likely comprise what will be his next solo album, in his home studio he has coined Pacific Dust. Other than that, you'll find Tim tour guiding in Yosemite this summer or surfing Ocean Beach in San Francisco.

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