
Welcome to The Wrinkled Bills website!
The Wrinkled Bills is a punk-rock band, a blues band, and a country-rock band. The band formed in 2025. We are working on recording our first 3 albums of original music, one for each live set. The first album has been released (June 13, 2026), and the Vinyl and CD are ready for sale. Albums 2 and 3 should be done by year's end.
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Everyone in the band is named Bill. (What are the odds of that? We still can't believe it.) Bill Smith on rhythm guitar and vocals, Bill Jones on drums, Bill O'Brien on lead guitar, Bill Roberts on bass, and Billie Doe on vocals. Most of us are old enough to have wrinkles, hence the name.
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We play original music, written by us. Our songwriting mines the rich lode of Blues and its many variants. We made the unusual decision to devote all of our energy to recording these albums before we start playing live. Each of the Bills has been in many bands, and it always seems that there's no time to record properly once a band's calendar fills up with gigs. But we will start stepping out, onto the stage, in 2027. We hope to see you then!

The Bills (listed in the order that they joined the band):

Bill Smith
Rhythm guitar and vocals. Band founder
and most-wrinkled Bill.

Bill Jones
Drums. Jazz-trained local band veteran, frequently seen backing up the blues notables
at the SF Saloon.

Bill O'Brien
Lead Guitar. The O.G. GIT-trained tone master,
notable for virtuosic and joyful playing.

Billie Doe
Vocal and background vocals. College-trained singer. The most outgoing and only unwrinkled Bill.
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Bill Roberts
Bass. Known for rock-solid preparation
and reliability. Most-presidential
appearance.