Bill Myrick [SEP] place of birth
Bill Myrick
Billie E. Myrick, known as Bill Myrick (August 6, 1926 – March 12, 2011), was an American country musician, originally from Simpson County in south central Mississippi but a long-time resident of Odessa in West Texas.
Family.
He was one of ten children of James Martin "Jim" Myrick and his wife, the former Allie Artimissa Parker, tenant farmers who moved their family to West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, where they purchased their own farm shortly before the Great
Depression. He was the brother of Louisiana State Senator W. Spencer Myrick (1918–1991).
Life and career.
Spencer and Bill Myrick both at times worked for Governor Earl Kemp Long. Bill Myrick joined the United States Army directly out of high school at the start of World War II, and as a combat medic in the Pacific with tours of duty in Japan and the Philippines.
Myrick returned to Louisiana after the war. His first professional singing job came by chance. He sat waiting to begin a temporary