This World

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AN ECLECTIC MIX OF ROOTS-REVERENT MUSIC STEEPED IN BLUES, AMERICANA AND ROCK, FROM THE TOURING GUITARIST IN ZYDECO GREAT CJ CHENIER'S BAND
Billy Thompson has performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada. His songwriting, singing and guitar playing features a unique amalgamation of blues, rock, funk, second line and soul.



Since 2022, Thompson has toured with Zydeco great CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band and has backed legends such as Little Milton, Albert King, Earl King and Art Neville, while opening for the likes of Robert Cray, Sonny Landreth, The Neville Brothers, Joe Cocker, George Thorogood and Jimmie Vaughan. He has performed on Barbara Walter's The View, with the San Diego Symphony, and for the grand opening of L.A.'s House of Blues.



He has guested with musical icons the Doobie Brothers, Bill Payne of Little Feat, John Mooney and more. He also played lead guitar for award-winning playwright Keith Glover's Bluesical, 'Thunder Knocking on the Door,' and served as musical supervisor / guitarist for Geva Theatre's 2019 production, 'Revival: the Resurrection of Son House.'



Thompson's eighth release, BT, which briefly made the Top 25 on the Living Blues Radio Chart in 2018, boasts familiar sonic shapes contributed by long-time musical Los Angeles, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. "A Team" luminaries such as Mike Finnigan, James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Grammy winner, Tony Braunagel, Daryl Johnson, James East, Michael Leroy Peed, Eric Selby, Danny Campbell, Gene Monroe and Michelle Lucas.



His 2012 release, A Better Man, produced by Tony Braunagel, featured Mike Finnigan, Grammy winner Johnny Schell, Kenny Gradney (Little Feat), "Hutch" Hutchinson, Lenny Castro, Joe Sublett and Darrell Leonard, received a 2012 Blues Blast Music Award nomination for "Contemporary Blues Album of the Year " and was "Bluesbreaker of the Week" on Dan Aykroyd's Elwood's House of Blues Hour.

TRACK LISTING

* This World
* Downsizing 2025
* Like Rain
* For True
* Melia
* Every Single Rider
* Thankful
* Batman & Robin
* Hope Peace & Joy
* Old Blue
* Dinosaur Eggs
* Monkey Back Guarantee
* Truth Come to Power
* Of the Angels

Number of Discs: 1

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