Billy Payne and Michael Deese

Name: Billy Payne and Michael Deese
Start: 2025-04-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 166 W. Doyle Street, Toccoa, GA, United States, Georgia 30577

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Sat, 19 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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Location

166 W. Doyle Street, Toccoa, GA, United States, Georgia 30577 | Toccoa, GA

Billy was raised on the sound of country music, played with his family at gatherings in the West Virginia mountains, Which is still home for him. His first vinyl was of Johnny Cash. His style of singing was a big influence in starting his love affair with the music scene. At 12 years old he started teaching himself how to play guitar and sing the popular songs from Johnny, Waylon, Willie, George, and all the great stars of country music. Playing in clubs and wherever he could the next many years instilled the love of performing.

In 1995, he met Waylon Jennings and they became friends. He has recorded and performed with Waylon’s band The Waylors (Waymore’s Outlaws) for several years.

After winning the national “Star Search” show in Charleston, WV in 1998, the recognition came from the record labels. Billy recorded his first album with Aaron Records in Nashville. He had two top 10 independent country songs and one on the Top 30.

In October, 2014, he was inducted into the world famous “Wheeling Jamboree” as an artist member and has performed there several times with many of the Jamboree stars. In June, 2016 the Academy of Western Artist nominated him in three categories; Artist, Album and Song of the Year with the “Genuine Leather” CD. In October 2017, 2018 and 2019 he was again nominated in the same categories with his latest CD.