Bill Taft is an American rock musician living in Atlanta, Georgia.

His first band of note was The Chowder Shouters, whose instruments included garbage cans.

[2] After the demise of the Chowder Shouters, Taft joined The Opal Foxx Quartet, a group consisting of anywhere from 2 to 14 members at a time.

[4] Around 1988, Taft started An Evening with the Garbageman, a spoken-word open-mic variety show, which he hosted and that eventually morphed into The Jody Grind.

[5] The Jody Grind released two CDs before disbanding following the deaths of half their members.

The accident occurred as the band was returning to Atlanta after performing in Montgomery, AL.[6] After The Jody Grind broke up in 1992, Taft formed Kick Me, with Allen Page (of Opal Foxx Quartet) and Kelly Hogan (of The Jody Grind).

Around 2017, Taft, along with Brian Halloran (cello) and Will Fratesi (drums) (of Smoke) started the band W8ing4UFOs.

September Baby, a cover of a song written by Joseph Arthur Taft played cornet on both these tracks.

Adventure Time "Blue Magic", written by Jack Pendarvis, sung by Kelly Hogan, with guitar performance by Bill Taft.