Recently inducted into the National Traditional Country Music Association Hall of Fame and receiving Album of the Year from the Rural Roots Commisssion, Billy Chernoff delivers a new single, “Can’t Sing Gospel Music In A Bar”. You can hear Billy talk about this song on his new DVD, but you can stream it below.

Billy Chernoff is as real as the wide open spaces of the American west. His music could be described as “Asphalt Western”, and the songs he writes today, are contemporary country and cross-over Gospel standards.

A native of Grand Forks, British Columbia, Billy draws from a rich background of experiences – grooming and exercising race horses, rough-necking in the Alberta oil fields, riding bareback horses, clowning and working barrel in Oregon and Nevada.

Billy is more than a studio musician/artist, and his music can adapt readily to a guitar-vocal around the campfire. He writes about rodeo cowboys, circuit-riding cowboy preachers, singing evangelists and songs about the human condition of love won and love lost. His music evokes images of our higher inner-selves, and can be like a cool calming breeze on a really hot day.

Sometimes the music business can take the music right out of an artist. But for Billy Chernoff, the music is an element so vital to who he is, that he continues to perform his art for the music’s sake.

Billy W. Chernoff didn’t bury his talent, nor did he make it dependent on money or business deals. His art is a true expression of the gift God gave him, and it only gets better as time and life weave their stories into the heart of the music.