Billy Lister

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Erin's song

Earlier this year, on April 13, Dad received a phone call from our cousin, Erin Patton. During their conversation, Erin mentioned an idea she'd carried with her for years, ever since she was a little girl.

Then she told him, "Write this down."

Dad happened to be out in his shop, and the only thing he could find to write on was a bubble mailer envelope. So he grabbed a pen and started writing down what she said. Erin told him she thought it should be a song.

Dad took her idea, added to it, and eventually sent it to me to put to music. Sadly, Erin passed away at just 46 years old.

What began as a little girl's idea, carried in her heart for so many years, eventually became a song. And thanks to that phone call, a pen, and an old bubble mailer envelope, a little piece of Erin's imagination lives on through music.

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Billy Lister is a genre-bending singer-songwriter from Boerne, Texas, crafting songs that live somewhere between memory, melody and heartbreak. The grandson of Big Bill Lister, a Grand Ole Opry regular and former opener for Hank Williams Sr.—Billy carries a legacy of storytelling into a new generation. His music blends country, rock and indie-pop textures, pairing raw emotion with cinematic detail to create songs that feel like late nights, lost love and the places you can’t quite leave behind.

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