This World Billy Thompson

• 1 This World 04:19
• 2 Downsizing 2025 05:10
• 3 Like Rain 04:00
• 4 For True 04:49
• 5 Melia 05:10
• 6 Every Single Rider 04:16
• 7 Thankful 04:48
• 8 Batman & Robin 04:06
• 9 Hope Peace & Joy 03:57
• 10 Old Blue 03:32
• 11 Dinosaur Eggs 04:09
• 12 Monkey Back Guarantee 04:51
• 13 Truth Come to Power 04:45
• 14 Of the Angels 04:56
• Total Runtime 01:02:48

Info for This World

Thompson’s eighth release, BT, features longtime musical heavyweights including Mike Finnigan, James “Hutch” Hutchinson, and Grammy winner Tony Braunagel. His 2012 album A Better Man included those artists along with Grammy-winning guitarist Johnny Lee Schell, Little Feat bassist Kenny Gradney, Joe Sublett, and Darrell Leonard, earning a nomination for Blues Blast Magazine’s 2012 Contemporary Blues Album of the Year. In 2023, Thompson appeared at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Great American Music Festival, and the Mendocino Music Festival.

This World includes ten original songs written by Thompson, one co-write, and four additional songs featuring guest lyricist Kirsten Trump. The album opens with the title track, “This World,” written in honor of Thompson’s brother Bruce Donnelly. Joined by bassist Golder O’Neill, drummer Eric Selby, and keyboardist Michael Leroy Peed, Thompson sings, “Look at the headlines, when I work so hard… seems like the good times never last that long… sometimes I wonder, don’t you, what have we done to this world.”

Billy Thompson, guitar, bass, vocals
Bob Campbell, horns
David Myles Curtis, bass
Golder O’Neill, bass
Andy Kravitz, drums
Eric Selby, drums
Eddie Christmas, drums
Doug Belote, drums
Lionel Batiste Jr., percussion
Michael Skinkus, congas
Michael Leroy Peed, keyboards
Luciano Leaes, organ, Wurlitzer
Kirk Joseph, sousaphone

Billy Thompson
has performed throughout the U.S., Europe and Canada. His songwriting, singing and guitar playing feature a unique amalgamation of blues, rock, funk, second line and soul.

Since 2022 Billy has toured with Zydeco great CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band and has backed legends such as Little Milton, Albert King, Earl King and Art Neville, while opening for the likes of Robert Cray, Sonny Landreth, The Neville Brothers, Joe Cocker, George Thorogood and Jimmie Vaughan. He has performed on Barbara Walter’s The View, with the San Diego Symphony, and for the grand opening of L.A.’s House of Blues.

Billy has guested with musical icons the Doobie Brothers, Bill Payne of Little Feat, John Mooney and more. He also played lead guitar for award-winning playwright Keith Glover’s Bluesical, Thunder Knocking on the Door and served as musical supervisor / guitarist for Geva Theatre’s 2019 production, Revival: the Resurrection of Son House.

Billy’s 2012 release, A Better Man, produced by Braunagel, featured Mike Finnigan, Grammy winner Johnny Schell, Kenny Gradney (Little Feat), “Hutch” Hutchinson, Lenny Castro, Joe Sublett and Darrell Leonard, was nominated by Blues Blast Magazine for 2012 “Contemporary Blues Album of the Year “ and was "Bluesbreaker of the Week" on Dan Aykroyd's Elwood's House of Blues Hour.

Billy’s eighth release, BT, boasts familiar sonic shapes by an "A Team" of luminaries such as Mike Finnigan, James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Grammy winner, Tony Braunagel, Daryl Johnson. James East, Michael Leroy Peed, Eric Selby, Danny Campbell, Gene Monroe and Michelle Lucas.

His latest album, This World, features Dr John alum David Barard, Derek Trucks alum Doug Belote, Nola standouts Kirk Joseph, Tom Worrell, Michael Skinkus and DC bandmates Eric Selby and Golder O’Neill. Also contributing are Michael Leroy Peed and Brazilian artist Luciano Laeas.

Appearances of note include the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Great American Music Festival, the Minnesota State Fair, Antone’s 48th Anniversary, the Mendocino Music Festival and Le Festival de Acadians et Creoles. BT also played in the BB King’s Nola All Stars, 2017-2018, on NPR’s Mountain Stage, and Humphrey's Concerts and Gator By The Bay (San Diego).

This album contains no booklet.