Billy Crockett is a songwriter, recording artist, music publisher, amateur astronomer and the creative director of Blue Rock Artist Ranch and Studios. He has recorded nine solo albums for Word, Urgent Records and his own label, Walking Angel. Billy has toured extensively over the past 20 years and continues to perform concerts in his trademark style, weaving storytelling, humor and original songs into memorable encounters. He has been a featured songwriter on the BMI panel at Austin’s SXSW Music Festival, Artist-in-Residence at the Academy of Gospel Music Arts, and a guitar clinician for Yamaha International. He holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from SMU and a Bachelor of Arts in Music Engineering from the University of Miami. At Blue Rock, Billy is initiating a program of artist development and collaboration, an acoustic concert series, and, of course, tours of the night sky. Billy and his wife, Dodee, live in Wimberley, Texas.