Over the course of their music career, Dillbilly has released nine full-length albums under their birth name. Hindsight is a collection of fifteen remastered tracks from their previous records. It’s an ode to where they came from and a journey across their evolution as a non-binary working class artist from the southern Midwest.
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released September 27, 2019

Re-master by Eric Oberthaler
Painting by Liam Florey @kristheliamleeflorey
Graphic Design by Mika Anami @meekr
Art photography by Jared Swanson @abbotkinney
Original recordings by: Dillbilly, Jason Ellis, and Michael Krapovicky
c/o Waxsimile Productions

Midwestern Tornado [REMASTERED]

Fire Alarm [REMASTERED]

Moth [REMASTERED]

Full Steam [REMASTERED]

Fiction [REMASTERED]

Whatever [REMASTERED]

Focus, Focus [REMASTERED]

Keep Your Eyes On Me [REMASTERED]

Chameleon [REMASTERED]

Dillbilly (pronouns: they/them) is a genre-queer alt-country singer-songwriter based out of Oakland, CA.  Raised in a trailer park in the rural midwest near the Ohio River, Dill grew up surrounded by cornfields and grain silos going jug fishing and playing classical piano.  Born to a touring singer/guitarist father, Dill was introduced to the music world at a young age.  At 18, they won a piano scholarship that sent them to Berklee College of Music.  Feeling uprooted and homesick as a transplant in Boston, Dillbilly dropped out and went back to the Midwest to start a band with their high school friends.  Over the past 20 years, they have been performing and touring across the U.S. and Canada releasing 9 full length albums as well as contributions to soundtracks for movies and TV under their birth name, Denise Dill.  Most of those releases were self recorded and released. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2015, they renamed their musical self and chose a name that more accurately embodies where they come from, where they draw inspiration, who they collaborate with, and how they identify as a genderqueer person. Now, in the 2018, they are performing as a band and have teamed up with renowned musician and producer Julie Wolf to create their 10th full length record which will be released next year. 

Whether the vehicle of the song is guitar, uke, banjo, sax, or piano, Dill’s songwriting is “[…] so strong you can taste it. It is sweet, spicy, savory, organic, homegrown, lots of twists, sometimes complex, sometimes so simple, and oh so very delicious! Their albums makes you want to sit in a rocking chair on a front porch in the fall while eating peach salsa, or wander out deep in the woods without knowing were you’ll end up,” says artist and friend Margaret Belton of San Franscisco, CA.

Branching into filmscoring, Dillbilly has composed for two full length films from Roundpoint Movies videomaker, Craig Saddlemire as well as one TV series. Neighbor by Neighbor: Mobilizing an Invisible Community in Lewiston, ME (2009) features a theme song written by Dill. Household: Four Stories of Kinship and Community (2013) features an original soundtrack to the full length documentary.  Finally, My So-called Housing Cooperative (2013), a web TV series features a theme song written by Dill.

Dill’s last full length solo release, Heavy Joi, is ”a sparkling work of thought and labor.  Heavy JOI is evidence of Dill’s growth as an artist showcasing a complete and mature batch of thirteen songs that gives this album both weight and levity, as the album title implies.  Dill’s lyrics and instrumentation are meaningful and complex. Each component is about substance not style. They broach difficult and complicated emotional issues that adults experience but are rarely able to articulate in such a beautiful way. I doubt Dillbillyl has received nearly as much goodwill as other lesser singer/songwriters, and they have certainly received less than they deserve.  For now, I’ll leave Heavy JOI on my list of records which require further inspection. I’ll plan to revisit it frequently and slowly digest all of its brilliant detail.”,” says music enthusiast and critic Elijah True of Lewiston, ME.  To purchase a copy of Heavy Joi, as well as other recordings visit Cdbaby, Itunes, Amazon, or Bandcamp.

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