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Tattoo Billy
Tattoo Billy was founded on the vocals of Hurstel Begley. Hurstel a true country boy was born in a rustic log cabin, in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Hurstel Begley was raised by his aunt Dorothy ”seals” Begley, she taught him his first chords on the guitar & she learned from her brother in law Govan Begley who learned from best friend Jimmy Rodgers. Ed Begley was a fighter & fought as a amateur out of Winton terrace in Cincinnati, under Arnold Bush & later fought & trained as a pro under Junior welter weight champ Aaron Pryor. The name Tattoo Billy was Hurstel Begley’s idea, Ed the only member in the band with tattoo’s, the name was picked since no one else had it. In 2007 Ed had a audition in a vampire movie ”Immortally yours” he got the part & passed off there first album to Joe Torntore & Bob Nielsen the director & editor of the movie & James Garret location manager. They loved it & put cutting loose in the movie. The bands sound had already developed into there own sound & got the attention of outstanding records who signed them, but it was short lived.They got some buzz from there low budget music video black hearted lady…people started teasing them calling them country Goths. Ed thought of the idea of video because no one ever has filmed a country music video in that style, we don’t want to do things that’s been done a million times, that’s why our second album was called ”Ghosts of outlaws” like Waylon where trying to do things our way, the outlaw way.
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