Noah Reid Instagram – Driving down to ABQ from Santa Fe for the last day of vocal recording, I had this idea that Billy’s mother Patricia, played by the brilliant Deirdre O’Connell, might be dating some rich old music guy in Aspen. I asked her if she would be interested in providing the opening voicemail, setting up the concept of how this record might have come to be, and she responded immediately “Oh honey I am in in IN!” She improv-ed a bit of magic dust that makes the whole thing come together and fills me with joy and nostalgia. To finish it off, my old friend Stuart Pearce added the perfect album art design, working off a photo I think Josh took of me in Billy’s truck. I love that truck.
Billy’s musical taste is as eclectic as it is unimpeachable, songs arriving within him like weather systems coming across the mountain plains, springing up like Old Faithful and descending like a meteor shower out of that big Wyoming sky. I like to think of his mind like a cosmic radio, coming in and out of static, some great DJ in the clouds dropping the needle on just the right track for the moment. I loved the songs that Brian Watkins and Zev Borow chose for season 1, and I wish I could’ve done them all, as well as all of the songs that feature in season 2. Maybe there will be a Volume 2 someday. For now, I hope you enjoy Billy Tillerson’s first and (quite possibly) only record, “T is for Tillerson”.
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