User:William Huey

William (Bill) Huey was born in Halifax Nova Scotia Canada on October 14 1951. At the age of one year the family moved to a little town about an hour west called Stewiacke. There he grew up listening to the music of the country artists of that time such as Hank Williams Sr., Carl Smith, Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, and Hank Snow. At the age of eight he got his first guitar for Christmas and this inspired him to learn to play. Although Bill got his guitar at the age of eight he never learnt to play until he was fourteen, being inspired by a Tom T. Hall LP that his father had brought home he bought a chord book for seventy-five cents and taught him-self to play. In 1969 at the age of seventeen Bill made his first stage appearance in his home town to an audience of nearly five hundred. He soon became popular at the jamborees and shows in and around his area. A few years later he formed his own band called "The Country Sounds" and was playing for dances. Over the years Bill played many shows through-out Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick when he played bass and sang vocals for a gospel group "Mike & Moore". In 2007 Bill organized the very first Hank Williams all gospel tribute show featuring songs that Hank had written or recorded the response for this show was tremendous and led Bill to do tribute shows on Jim Reeves titled "Welcome To My World" and Tom T. Hall titled "Ole "T" and Me". In 2010 Bill was made a life time member of the Hank Williams Appreciation Society in Alabama for his work in keeping the music of Hank Williams alive and in 2012 he was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall Of Fame. Some of Bill's high-lights over the years was meeting his musical hero Tom T. Hall in 1971 and playing back up guitar for Country Music Hall of Famer Patsy Montana and playing bass for Jack Jensen of the Canadian singing trio "The Rhythm Pals" Bills style has always remained the same over the years and has earned him the title of Country Bill.