BILLY’S SOUND - A BLENDING OF NEO FOLK/AMERICANA WITH INDIE ROCK AND COUNTRY - IS INSPIRED BY HIS LIFE, HIS LISTENING, HIS BELIEF THAT TO BE HUMAN MEANS TO EXPERIENCE THE UNIVERSE AND OUR WORLD ITS PEOPLE AND TO REFLECT ALL THAT BACK UPON ITSELF THROUGH ARTISTIC EXPRESSION.  HE CAN BE FOUND PERFORMING HIS RESOUNDING ANTHEMIC SONGS EITHER AS A A SOLO ACT WITH AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR, OR AS A FULL BAND SETUP REFLECTIVE OF HIS MOST RECENT ALBUM, TOO MUCH TO LET IT GO (RELEASE EARLY 2022)

BILLY’S MUSICAL LEGACY HAS TAKEN HIM TO FESTIVALS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, AND HE HAS HAD THE HONOR OF SHARING THE STAGE WITH HOUSEHOLD NAMES LIKE: JAMES TAYLOR, YO YO MA, THE GIN BLOSSOMS, BLUES TRAVELER AND MANY OTHERS, AT VENUES AS WIDE RANGING AS MASSMOCA, THE GREENRIVER FEST IN MASS, THE KATE WOLF FEST IN CALIFORNIA, AND VARIOUS OTHER FESTIVALS AND CONCERT HALLS TO LEGENDARY FOLK CLUBS SUCH AS CAMBRIDGE’S CLUB PASSIM, SARATOGA SPRINGS’ CAFFE LENA, NYC’S ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL, LA’S HOTEL CAFE, AND SAN FRANCISO’S HOTEL UTAH.  

IN THE PAST FEW YEARS BILLY HAS BECOME MORE INVOLVED IN ON CAMERA WORK, BEING FEATURED ON CAMERA IN VARIOUS COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS (SIERRA FERRELL’S “IN DREAMS”, JOHNNY IRION’S “TONIGHT”) AND LOOKS FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE FILM/TV AND PHOTOGRAPHY WORLDS.

IN 2014 BILLY CO-FOUNDED THE EVER POPULAR COLLABORATIVE SONGWRITER PROJECT CALLED THE WHISKEY TREATY ROADSHOW (2020 RELEASE BAND TOGETHER FEATURING STEVE GORMAN OF THE BLACK CROWES AND PAT SANSONE OF WILCO).  THE WHISKEY TREATY HAS TOURED NATIONALLY AND RECEIVED WIDE ACCLAIM BOTH FOR THEIR LIVE RECORDS AND STUDIO ALBUM. 

JAMES WALLACE -- singer, songwriter and producer behind Skyway Man -- presents The World Only Ends When You Die, a spinning disc flashing the finest examples of cosmological country and sci-fi gospel blues. 

 The World Only Ends When You Die was conceived as a tragédie lyrique - a cinematic psych-folk opera about a person rendered incapable of coping with an uncertain reality following a near death experience. Under a spell of mixed wisdom by several “trickster guides” hailing from the future, they leap back into the world of the dead only to spend a hero’s journey climbing out, finally returning to the strange American existence of 2020. 

 Few artists take ownership of ‘cosmic country’ as literally as James Wallace. Few artists have as much to say, with such style and substance of sound. The World Only Ends When You Die is a Saturday serial of cosmic import, “...the River Styx as an amusement park that you ride over and over again.” Eerily prescient for these pandemic times, the record offers a kind of relief--a vocalization of the alien realities that ripple under the surface of society through relatable, repeated mantras. Sometimes darkness in the mind, sometimes it leaves us.