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Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome is a Swampbilly-Blues/ANTI-Pop Country/Rockabilly band out of Pensacola, Florida. BB& HBC are stout distillation of rockabilly, country, blues and high-lonesome featuring One-Woman-Band WITH-a-band-style instrumentation and guts-out-gospel vocalization. Betsy hammers down catchy-as-hell, ruthless, low-slung tall-tales with uncommon wit and undeniable humor.
Biography
Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome is a Swampbilly-Blues/ANTI-Pop Country/Rockabilly band out of Pensacola, Florida.

Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome hammer down a stout distillation of rockabilly, country, blues and high-lonesome. The band’s insistence on stripped-down instrumentation and guts-out-gospel vocalization gave birth to a powerful hybrid Americana sound driven by Betsy’s one-man-band -with a band- style. Betsy Badwater sings, plays guitar, and tambourine-topped bass drum all at the same time.

Since 2005, Badwater has been performing with her Hillbilly Chrome, a band of friendly guest musicians from coast to coast that hold it together in a pinch, performing with as many as 8 players on stage at once, right on down to Betsy’s One-Woman-Band performances, some owing to Betsy’s big voice, completely unamplified. Betsy and Lang Hollowman also appear as power-duo HOLLOWMAN BADWATER.

Multi-instrumentalist, Lang Hollowman joined Badwater in the summer of 2009 as a partner, seeking the honesty and passion he felt so deeply in the roots music he’d played in Mississippi church houses and with a string of talented bands along the Gulf Coast of Florida. Hollowman’s gut-wrenching slide guitar style has become the ultimate companion to Badwater’s fearless low-down country-blues vocals and story-song writing, a paring that has been likened to the spirit of Jay Farrar & Mark Spencer, early Hank Williams Jr., and Tedeschi and Trucks. Hollowman was a co-writer, multi-instrumentalist, engineer, and co-mixer on the Betsy Badwater & The Hillbilly Chrome 2009 twenty-song record, “TALES of the WAYWARD.”