Billy Eli

[2] Eli worked on oil and gas pipelines before starting to write and play music in his early twenties.

[3] His musical influences include the Rolling Stones, Steve Earle, Tom Petty, Guy Clark, the Eagles and the Byrds.

[7] His album was among the first wave of music that eventually became known as Americana, but at the time of its release there was no single genre label that fit.

[9] Among the many musicians Eli has had in his band over the last years was bassist Joseph Stack (ca.

Stack is now more widely known for flying his private plane into an Austin IRS office in 2010, killing himself and one other, as well as injuring 13.