Bill Colbert - Caliche Music

Singer/Songwriter

Bill Colbert is a singer/songwriter in Austin, Texas.  Some of Bill’s accomplishments through the years include winning the Austin Songwriter Competition, showcasing two consecutive years at SxSW, performing three times as a Finalist in the Kerrville New Folk Competition, and showcasing at Nashville’s Bluebird Café and the much maligned and missed Austin Aquafest. He has signed numerous publishing contracts with a variety of Texas and Nashville publishing firms, including Bug Music and Bluewater Music. "That Sudden Stop" was picked up, recorded and released on Steinar Albrigtsen’s #1 CD in Norway, Bound to Wander. Steinar also recorded "Fool Moon" in 2007 on his latest CD, Moment of Peace.  Other songs have been cut and released by other artists, including Stop the Truck, Michael Ballew and the Almost Patsy Cline Band.

Bass Player

  Besides writing songs, Bill has also backed other performers as a bass player and harmony singer throughout the years. He currently plays with Donn Adelman, Carl Hutchens and Michael Ballew. From rodeos, to honky tonks, to festivals, to the occasional dive, he has played in a variety of Texas Country Dancehall bands that have traveled many a mile down funky Texas highways and backroads to open for the likes of the Bellamy Brothers, Pam Tillis, Ray Price, Johny Bush and Gary Stewart. He did a 2 ½ year tour of duty with the Loy Blanton Band, which culminated in appearances at Stars Over Austin and the Houston Livestock Rodeo. As the bassist in Michael Ballew’s Damn Good Texas Band, Bill has gone on overseas tours through Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the UK. While a member of Amy & the Bullets, the band opened for the Kentucky Headhunters & Hank Williams Jr.. His favorite one night pickup gigs as a bass player include playing a gig with the legendary Johnny Gimble (he smiled and was very encouraging!) and another gig with Jimmy Day (he did NOT smile and never said a word!) and in an impromptu band with Lucinda Williams & Mandy Mercier at the long departed Hector’s Taco Flats on a night far, far away.