He is a keyboardist who was born and grew up in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He later moved to Muscle Shoals, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville and currently resides in Northern Mississippi.
He has played keyboards for many artists including Ace Cannon, Waylon Jennings, Al Green, B.B. King, Jimmy Buffett and Glenn Frey and has appeared on more than 200 albums.
He has been a member of the band Amazing Rhythm Aces since 1972 on keyboards, piano, marimba, accordion and guitar and still plays with them. When the band split in 1981 he went to play for Hank Williams Jr & The Bama Band and has won several awards while playing with them.
He is a lifetime member of the Country Music Association and the Hank Williams Appreciation Society. June 28th 1985 was pronounced Billy Earhart Day in Memphis.
Amazing Rhythm Aces recordings
Lipstick Traces (On A Cigarette) (Noomi Neville )
ABC 12454, 45-00783 – M/S ( US promo 45)
Mystery Train (Sam Phillips /Herman Parker )
ABC 12078, 45-16733-S ( US promo 45)
Third Rate Romance (Howard Russell Smith )
ABC 12078, 45-16732-S ( US promo 45)
Two Can Do It Too (Howard Russell Smith )
Here’s the Bama Band with “White Lightnin'”…
Sources:
- http://www.billyearheart.com/bebio.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Earheart
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Rhythm_Aces
- www.weht.net/WEHT/Amazing_Rhythm_Aces.html
- https://www.discogs.com/artist/870857-Billy-Earheart