Jack Williams August 26, 2009

South Carolinian guitarist and singer-songwriter Jack Williams has had an amazing career stretching back to a stint as a beatnik jazz trumpeter and poet in 1959. Switching to guitar, he worked with John Lee Hooker, Harry Nilsson, Tom Paxton, and Peter Yarrow, among many others. He played in rock bands, and, around 1970, began writing songs of his own, inspired by the varied likes of Jesse Winchester, Josh White, Hank Williams, Johnny Mercer, and Ray Charles. Williams' music is born at the meeting ground of the traditional and the contemporary. His shows offer original Southern American songwriting and performance at its best, drawing deeply from the eclectic well of our musical heritage. Jack's fusion of guitar, voice, and song--all loaded with delightful influences from his career in jazz, classical, rock, blues, country and folk--should not be missed!