Billy Bond with Austin Lynn Austin
Billy Bond, Jr. is a singer/songwriter from Prescott. Billy moved to Arizona 21 years ago from Southern Colorado and took 20 years off from his music career. He was a member of the popular trio, Hired Hands, that played the Taos and Santa Fe clubs and resorts for many years.
About 20 months ago, he decided to dust off his guitar, build back his voice and get the calluses back on his fingers. He’s been hard at it ever since playing several nights a week around Northern Arizona. He is a member of The Cactus Farmers, a trio, and performs regularly with Austin Lynn Austin as a duo.
Billy combines his unique guitar style, dobro, Weissenborn and lapsteel instruments with expressive vocals into a wide range of songs from Hank Williams to Prince. But, his specialty is a full catalog of obscure Southwestern tunes and original songs that touch the heart and please the ear.
Austin Lynn Austin spent the early side of the 1990s chasing his musical dreams and took off with a couple bandmates to Europe. They landed in London and signed a record deal with The Cure’s record label (Fiction/Polydor). They toured and opened for acts such as Nick Cave and the Badseeds, Swans, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cramps and many more. Highlights of that time were recording sessions with The Cure and playing many of the large, outdoor European music festivals. In the mid-90’s, life changing events befell one of his bandmates and it all suddenly came to an end, and he stopped playing music.
