Billy Roberts

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William Moses Roberts Jr. (born 1936, Greenville, South Carolina) is an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe" (of which the best known version is the hit by The Jimi Hendrix Experience). (For further information on the authorship and genesis of "Hey Joe", see the article of the same name.)

Roberts was a relatively obscure California based folk singer, guitarist and harmonica player who performed on the West Coast coffee-house circuit in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He registered "Hey Joe" for copyright in the U.S. in 1962. Roberts later recorded the country rock album Thoughts of California with the band Grits in San Francisco in 1975, produced by Hillel Resner.

After a severe car accident in the 1990s Roberts was hospitalised in Sonoma County, California for many years.

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  • 1975, Thoughts of California, album

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