Sun Halo (2023)

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As I have said before, sometimes, incredibly after all you've done, I think your greatest work is yet to come, or coming now. It's weird, when you're a prodigy, which you were, to discover so rich and unexpected a vein in midlife. And it leads to a humbling gratitude for all the elements, so many of them difficult and unlooked for, that have led

As I have said before, sometimes, incredibly after all you've done, I think your greatest work is yet to come, or coming now. It's weird, when you're a prodigy, which you were, to discover so rich and unexpected a vein in midlife. And it leads to a humbling gratitude for all the elements, so many of them difficult and unlooked for, that have led to that seasoned expression, and an urgent, workmanlike desire to be worthy of it, to just get it out. I'm reminded of a passage from Laozi: "Great talent ripens late." Here's to never giving up, never letting go, finding the deeper journey, the true way, the path of worship and true expression no matter what. I'm just thrilled for you, and jazzed to hear the rest. - Ethan Dunn

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Marching Through Georgia (2022)

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Presented by the popular podcast, Addressing Gettysburg, "Marching Through Georgia" features ten Civil War era ballads reimagined as contemporary rock songs.

Performed and produced by Billy Webster Lead Guitar by Carl Basler Recorded at the Jersey Dream, 2022

*Special thanks to Matt Callery for his patience, support, and encouragement.

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Presented by the popular podcast, Addressing Gettysburg, "Marching Through Georgia" features ten Civil War era ballads reimagined as contemporary rock songs.

Performed and produced by Billy Webster Lead Guitar by Carl Basler Recorded at the Jersey Dream, 2022

*Special thanks to Matt Callery for his patience, support, and encouragement.

Please visit www.addressinggettysburg.com for more information and don't forget to subscribe to "Addressing Gettysburg" wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Nothing New Under The Sun (2021)

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This deluxe edition includes "Nothing New Under The Sun" and "Frenemy", rockers written and recorded during the sessions for The One Thing You Need album in 2020, as well as brand new recordings of "Vampire Girl" and "Beautiful Game" which were featured on the original The One Thing You Need album back in 1999. Rounding out the set are "The Daddio

This deluxe edition includes "Nothing New Under The Sun" and "Frenemy", rockers written and recorded during the sessions for The One Thing You Need album in 2020, as well as brand new recordings of "Vampire Girl" and "Beautiful Game" which were featured on the original The One Thing You Need album back in 1999. Rounding out the set are "The Daddio Anthem" - featuring Daddio himself - and an extended version of the meditative chant, "OmManiPadmeHum."

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The One Thing You Need (2020)

Billy Webster

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You never forget the first time you hear certain rock-and-roll voices – Robert Plant, Janis Joplin, Axl Rose – the way the human instrument viscerally connects your body and heart, calling your emotions to the surface and transforming them into something universal, transcendent, and ultimately, cathartic. Such was the case when I first heard Billy

You never forget the first time you hear certain rock-and-roll voices – Robert Plant, Janis Joplin, Axl Rose – the way the human instrument viscerally connects your body and heart, calling your emotions to the surface and transforming them into something universal, transcendent, and ultimately, cathartic. Such was the case when I first heard Billy Webster, some two decades ago. A friend had a friend who was in a band, and I had to hear him sing, blah blah blah. But when she dropped that cassette and his angelic strains muscled forth, I froze, utterly stilled. How was it possible he hit such otherworldly heights, rounding them out with such guttural and animal orotundity? Often with the great voices it’s a matter of range, a technical instrument with vast and supple reach, but there is always that extra, ineffable element of emotional immediacy, the alchemic ability to transfer sweetness and soulfulness and animal rage mainline to your core. It’s what you want out of rock, and you can never get enough.

Over the ensuing years, as a fan and then as a friend, I’ve seen Billy Webster perform a dozen times, and enthusiastically followed every one of his albums through his many iterations, in bands and as a solo artist. As a performer, he possesses the effortless charisma and risk-taking showmanship of the greats. As a musician, he brings to his God-given instrument an almost effortless pop sensibility, like David Bowie or Tom Petty, the ability to pen deceptively simple songs that convey great substance. He is literate, and possesses that rare and elusive ability to straddle matters both secular and spiritual in the way that the Irish band U2 have; indeed, he renders such robust and integrated concerns natural, as they should be. For Billy, the personal is spiritual, and that implicit creed infuses his music, which careens like his voice from the earthly to the celestial and everything in between in a single instant. Billy sings the whole of being, the entirety of loving, and the illuminating joy of music, especially rock and roll.

Webster’s new album, The One Thing You Need, revisits six beloved classics, well-known to his followers, often with a harder, driving sound, mixed in with eight bright new offerings. It’s a wonderful and various collection, purposefully genre-bending, effortlessly mixing rock, rockabilly, hard rock, and surprising punk, showcasing not only Webster’s versatility, but also a generous and infectious love for the full range of his medium. He and long-time collaborator Carl Basler, on lead guitar, take us on a headlong sonic pilgrimage through the stations of human love that leaves us breathless, hurting, and ultimately, affirmed.

Billy Webster’s wide-ranging influences resonate through his work with celebratory deference. Rock and roll is a cathedral built by sacrificial geniuses stone upon stone, reaching from the body through the heart and into the freeing heavens. And yet these sounds are lovingly integrated in Webster into a unique, signature voice, an instantly legendary presence, one who places his own perfect stone with stunning virtuosity, playful gravitas, and loving defiance into the towering keep of this sacred upreach. Billy is a restless angel indeed, plying the God-given gift of his holy voice in the earthly realm of the “hear” and now, giving himself over with the gravity of grace wholeheartedly to love and music, and boldly calling creation likewise to account. The One Thing You Need is a human cry for heaven on earth, right here right now, and is that one thing indeed.

Ethan Dunn (December, 2020)

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Eat Your Heart Out (2018)

Billy Webster

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How many times does lightning have to strike for the world to catch fire? Eat Your Heart Out is yet another masterpiece from the seemingly infinite vault of your irrepressible humanity. I never quite imagine it is possible you will surpass yourself, as each offering seems, in the immanent moment of its ambient arrival, absolute, indeed is so. And

How many times does lightning have to strike for the world to catch fire? Eat Your Heart Out is yet another masterpiece from the seemingly infinite vault of your irrepressible humanity. I never quite imagine it is possible you will surpass yourself, as each offering seems, in the immanent moment of its ambient arrival, absolute, indeed is so. And yet your ever astonishing virtuosities are seasoned here, indeed generally since Bold Enough to Say, with a robust maturity in both theme and sound that is more satisfying than ever. There is a sadness, a rich and humble philosophical acceptance, a surrender and yet as well ever that defiant necessity at all costs, burnished now to absolute purity, to sing your song. It is as though through your own discernment of devotional endeavor in love and music, as a husband and father and musical poet, coupled with the crucible of external circumstance, the ongoing frustrations of endeavoring to be heard in a willfully deaf world, a world that punishes its ears and soul with placating insipidity rather then probing inquiry, with banality not beauty, you have become perfected, crystallized to an absolute harmony from the geometries of internal grace and external pressure like a diamond, to the point that every single fractal beam of sonic light that emanates from this spinning disc holds like a sounding sun all the light of creation. - Ethan Dunn

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Happy Ending (2016)

Billy Webster

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Like some of the artists who resonate within your singular voice, most especially David Bowie, I've always thought you to be a consummate creator of the pop song, which I mean as high praise. Writing within the strictures and according to the structures of a finite and recognizable form challenges the discipline of artistic muscle, like composing

Like some of the artists who resonate within your singular voice, most especially David Bowie, I've always thought you to be a consummate creator of the pop song, which I mean as high praise. Writing within the strictures and according to the structures of a finite and recognizable form challenges the discipline of artistic muscle, like composing a sonnet; doing so in a medium so ostensibly accessible is especially challenging; to bring such personal, philosophical, and spiritual depth to the shape is a kind of mastery. I think I have told you that if I could have been anything in life I would have been, not a poet, but precisely what you are, a troubadour, able to sling a guitar over my back, go anywhere, and tell of all the world and life and love and poetry in a single song. It was glorious to experience the robust unleashing of your gifts and hard work in the more valent tapestry of Bold Enough To Say, and the spiritual infusion into your other human concerns was compelling. That was an apotheosis; I know it's difficult to live on in the aftermath of one's personal masterpiece, however it is received, and to continue to work. And yet it's delightful to have that mature authorial voice brought back now into your familiar medium of the pop song, and it is courageous, devotional, and visionary of you to continue forging this remarkable work. I love how you hew to the work no matter the external circumstance, through periods of perhaps both reward and frustration; isn't it wonderful that an impulse once connected to external concerns only becomes affirmed, strengthened, and purified as we move through life, if we are true, and those preoccupations mostly fall away? For myself, now, I crave only enough success to allow me to continue to work, just want to do the work. Calls spawned of our original and essential natures - for I know you are like me, and were born with a song in your head - once connected to ambition and wordily vanities, become increasingly rarefied and spiritual as their adamantine and immortal truth is revealed through our human lives, an essence of divine expression limned within our sinew and souls. I relish your journey, so like my own, and cherish these tuneful revelations that you send my way. I truly feel that through all the permutations of your long picaresque you only get better. While you suffer like so many the irritation of fandom for your early work, as in my love of Castles, the essential gift and this remarkable, epic devotion of its lifelong unveiling reveals but deeper and more profound beauties. Obviously some of the magical electricity of Liquid Bliss derived from the alchemy of you and Earl and Jason and John and Ariel. Great bands need not only great talent but this luck of chemistry, and you all had it. I was thinking about this chemistry while showing a video of Led Zeppelin playing, of all things, Stairway to Heaven to my son the other night. The combustion of those four men, each so talented in his own right, just ignites. But there was never any question for me that you are a solo talent, a signer-songwriter, that troubadour, and though I know the journey has been long and at times difficult, I am certain it is the right path. While I'll never forget hearing those first angelic strains played to me by Johanna McKeon twenty-plus years ago, I equally relish the fuller and fuller range of your expression, with its deep and visceral dimensions as well, and the breadth now of emotions and insights that accompany the formal virtuosity. Another pleasure of maturity and the long road is this inevitable burnishing of youthful conceit into a clarity, discernment, and sincerity of expression; your themes, so deeply heartfelt and salient, resonate with universal profundity. I especially enjoy the spiritual dimension, in both its struggle and affirmation, and of course the elements of romantic love and fatherhood. You possess the courage to let your life and your work entwine like two strands of DNA, and as such and because of the depth of your gift and the faithfulness of your application you are a great artist, one who is forging an epic body of work reflective of all the deepest themes of what it is to be alive. When I think about the story of your life as I know it, it seems almost as though it has unfolded perfectly for you to achieve this mastery, though I'm sure it has not always felt so, and of course that is primarily because of your genius in making of it just that. Even as at the close of this double album, in Dead Plastic Bird, you make your peace about making your music for the deepest reasons and for your most intimate beloveds, through its inherent genius and also through that very sort of religious focus and unapologetic service it attains a universal power. - Ethan Dunn

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Bold Enough To Say (2014)

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The essential conceit of Bold Enough to Say, parsing the Lord's Prayer to its constituent parts and through the lyrical exploration of those fragments questioning, stretching, affirming, and transforming the spiritual truths it represents is itself genius; the gifts of musical, lyric, and expressive talent you bring to bear upon the endeavor are,

The essential conceit of Bold Enough to Say, parsing the Lord's Prayer to its constituent parts and through the lyrical exploration of those fragments questioning, stretching, affirming, and transforming the spiritual truths it represents is itself genius; the gifts of musical, lyric, and expressive talent you bring to bear upon the endeavor are, truly, real genius, the real genius of realized purpose that itself becomes the expression of the divine; these gifts bring your original idea wholly to a life that is radically affecting. Experiencing this work is like loving a person, or like loving godhead: you are challenged, confounded, affirmed, comforted, compelled, embraced, called to account, and finally perfected through that love. You have created a masterpiece of our modern era that not only brings spirituality to the contemporary moment in the language of our time, but compels the spiritualist to the necessity of that call. My own compulsion is that the holy woman or man, which we are all each, must become himself the living fuse of the spirit to which he professes, that he is himself not merely a celebrant but the living incarnation, the sacred keep, of that very faith, that he both recreates it and carries it with him as he goes, with all attendant responsibilities of compassion and grace; to my subjective eye you have expressed a similar notion with tremendous beauty and power in Bold Enough to Say.

With Bold Enough to Say, Billy, you have stunningly achieved this apotheosis. All that astonishing original talent is here, intact after all these years of its harrowing and joyful journey of self-realization: the angelic voice, the literate lyrics, the rock 'n' roll edge. The mojo of your first majesty is as heavy and light and wonderful as ever. Indeed those original capacities have seasoned along with your sense. But there is more here now, a distilling alchemy, the piercing necessity and concomitant perfection of the robust voice of realized purpose. All your considerable capacity is focused with transformative intention on your expressive imperative with an integrated mastery that becomes real genius. - Ethan Dunn

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BillySongs 2005-2015

Billy Webster

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Selected works from the albums Pop Rox (2005), Eschaton (2006), Billy Slap!! (2008), It's All About Me (2009), Wicker Pants (2011), and Bold Enough To Say (2014) - including singles from the years in between and 2015.

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BillySongs 1990-2004

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Selected works from SourPuss, Liquid Bliss, and the albums Billy (2002), Revelation Monkey (2003), Zen Songs (2004) - including singles from the years in between.

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Meditations & Chants

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Ten minute sonic landscapes based on traditional chants, meditations, and rounds created by Billy Webster and Carl Basler specifically to sooth, inspire, and put you in a meditative mood.

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