Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Billy Eli
Billy Eli

2 Followers

Home

About

Mar 1, 2021

Windfall

“Trying to make it far enough, to the next time zone, Few and far between past the midnight hour, never feel alone, You’re really not alone” — Son Volt In his alt-country classic Windfall, Jay Farrar describes an all-night drive and finding a radio station that sounds like heaven. Those…

3 min read

Windfall
Windfall

3 min read


Sep 4, 2020

Sympathy for the Devil

“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. But what’s puzzling you is, the nature of my game.” — The Rolling Stones “Hi. I’m Billy. I’m Griffin’s dad.” I took a sweeping glance at the faces of the people in the group. They were sitting in folding metal chairs…

Musicians

10 min read

Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil
Musicians

10 min read


Aug 5, 2020

A Honky Tonker Staring Down Sixty

In his wistful song “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” Jimmy Buffet describes in vivid detail the life and attitude of an aging smuggler. The subject of that song laments that he was born too late to practice his true calling of being a pirate. He misses things that he’d never…

Music Business

3 min read

A Honky Tonker Staring Down Sixty
A Honky Tonker Staring Down Sixty
Music Business

3 min read


Aug 5, 2020

Return of the Grievous Angel

“Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels, and a good saloon in every single town” — Gram Parsons “If you’ve got time, there’s a diner just a couple of miles from here. We could get breakfast.”. We were just pulling into Kevin Maul’s driveway after playing…

Musicians

7 min read

Return of the Grievous Angel
Return of the Grievous Angel
Musicians

7 min read

Billy Eli

Billy Eli

2 Followers

Songwriter, musician, road dog, thinker

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech