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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Billy Bob Thorton’s Musical Multiple Personality Disorder



Billy Bob Thortons Musical Multiple Personality Disorder.
Billy Bob Thornton has been playing music since The Grateful Dead were The Warlocks. Billy Bob was a child of Malvern, Arkansas, where the railroads met on the way to Hot Springs. Thornton?s forty-year musical career is sometimes overshadowed by his film successes, but he finds his music no less important than his movies. The two have melded, especially in the jamband world. Thornton?s directorial debut was a film on Widespread Panic. He cast Col. Bruce Hampton and Vic Chesnutt in Sling Blade and has jammed onstage with Dickey Betts. More importantly than the myriad beautiful women, the Oscar, the four solo albums, the greatest portrayal of Santa Claus of all time, and having Johnny Cash cover one of his songs, Thornton has shoveled asphalt and starved to the point of hospitalization.