Billy Edd Wheeler

About

American songwriter, composer, performer, artist, and writer known for Jackson and other Grammy Award-winning songs.

Before fame

He attended Warren Wilson College and Berea College and briefly worked as a student Navy pilot.

Trivia

His work included musicals, plays, humor books, and a folk opera in addition to folk and country-genre songs.

Family life

He married Mary Mitchell Bannerman and had two children.

Associated with

He wrote songs for such famous folk singers as Judy Collins.