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Sons of Bill

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Charlottesville,USA

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Alternative Country

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Born

2005

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2005 to Present...

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Brand New Paradigm	5,922	4 users
Road to Canaan	15,141	4 users
Santa Ana Winds	9,020	4 users
Big Unknown	4,037	3 users
Broken Bottles	7,456	1 users

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Bad Dancer	Higher Than Mine	Santa Ana Winds
Siren Song	Lost in the Cosmos (So...

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"Sons of Bill" is a five-piece rock and Americana band from Charlottesville, Virginia. founded by brothers Sam, Abe, and James Wilson, along with bassist Seth Green and drummer Todd Wellons. The band took their name from the Wilson brothers' father, Bill Wilson, a musician and professor of philosophical theology and southern literature at the University of Virginia where the band initially formed.
The seeds of Sons of Bill formed in 2005 when James Wilson graduated from Deep Springs College in California and moved back to Virginia. On his way home he visited his older brother Sam Wilson who was living in Brooklyn, NY playing guitar in a rock band and free-lancing as a jazz guitarist. The two brothers spent an evening in Sam's apartment playing old country songs that their dad had taught them, as well as some new songs that James had recently written. Upon returning home that summer James began playing those same songs with his other older brother Abe Wilson at parties and open mic nights around Charlottesville and the idea of forming a band was hatched. Abe was currently home for the summer from architecture school at the University of Maryland. Childhood friend Seth Green was recruited to play bass and Todd Wellons, who had independently played in bands with both Seth and Abe, was brought in to play drums. The band played their first formal show on December 23, 2005 and within several months both brothers had moved home to Virginia to pursue the band full time.