James "Billy" Dankert is an American musician from Austin, Minnesota, United States, best known as the drummer, singer and songwriter for Minnesota-based band the Gear Daddies.
Dankert's songs include "Time Heals", "Blues Mary", and "One Voice".
His fifth solo album, Sleep Late, is scheduled for self-release in April 2016, after a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its pressing.
Dankert now resides in St. Paul, Minnesota, playing reunion gigs with the Gear Daddies.
He has drummed for several other acts like Slim Dunlap, Shimmy, and Doug Collins and the Receptionists, and The Reverend Angus Strychn Trio.