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Billy Edd Wheeler

real name Billy Edward Wheeler

Billy Edd Wheeler is credited on 2,678 releases across 631 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,678

Credits

631

Albums

8

Decades active

754

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Biography

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Songwriter, performer, writer and visual artist born at the 9th of December 1932 in Boone County, West Virginia, USA.
Wheeler was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2001, the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2007, and the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2011. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his two alma maters: Berea College in 2004, and Warren Wilson College in 2011.
He also received 13 awards from ASCAP, the Best Appalachian Poetry from Morris Harvey College, and Billboard Magazine’s Pacesetter Award for Music and Drama. In June, 2005, Country Music Television voted Jackson one of the Ten Greatest Love Songs of Country Music. BMI lists 197 songs for him.
Wheeler died September 16, 2024, in Swannanoa, North Carolina, USA.

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Credited work

2,678 releases · 631 albums · active 1958–2025

  • Performance · 2,833
  • Other credits · 97
  • Production · 37
  • Engineering · 5
  • Mastering · 1

Studios: Sound Emporium · Folsom Prison · Sixteenth Avenue Sound · Town Hall, New York

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