Hiland, Wyoming

Hiland (also Poison Creek Station or Wolton) is an unincorporated community in western Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. It lies along the concurrent U.S. Routes 20 and 26, west of the city of Casper, the county seat of Natrona County. Its elevation is 6,004 feet (1,830 m). Although Hiland has no post office (closed in 2014), it has a ZIP code of 82638. Hiland is so named because it formed the highest elevation point within the Wyoming portion of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. As of 2014, the town consisted only of a bar catering to bikers, and an adjacent house.

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Johnny Hiland

Johnny Hiland is an American musician. He began as a bluegrass player, and then went on to play jazz, blues and country.

Early life

Hiland grew up in Woodland, Maine. He was born with nystagmus, a condition of involuntary eye movement.

Career

In 1996, Hiland moved to Nashville and worked as a session musician for country artists including Toby Keith, Ricky Skaggs, Janie Fricke, and Hank Williams III. Meanwhile, he played with the Don Kelley Band at Robert's Western World. Hiland signed with Steve Vai's Favored Nations label as a solo artist. The Johnny Hiland Band has released two studio albums on the Favored Nations label.

Besides guitar, Hiland also plays banjo, fiddle and mandolin.

Other activities

Hiland also works as a motivational speaker as well as a children's author. Hiland's first children's book. Tuff the Special Bear, which he wrote and illustrated, was published in 2006. In December 2010, Hiland became partners with Jason Macedo (guitarist) as magazine partner in The Sound Guitar Magazine.. In, 2011 Johnny signed with Mike Varney's Shrapnel Records.

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