Brooks Williams

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Chasin' the Groove 00:00 Tools
Frenzy At the Feeder 00:00 Tools
Water Song 00:00 Tools
Zoe 00:00 Tools
Restless 00:00 Tools
O Leaozinho 00:00 Tools
Gentle Rain 00:00 Tools
Travels 00:00 Tools
Rise From the Ruins 00:00 Tools
Asa Branca 00:00 Tools
Shady Grove 00:00 Tools
Love Came Down 00:00 Tools
Weary of the Moon 00:00 Tools
Libera Me 00:00 Tools
Joyful Joyful 00:00 Tools
Bakerloo 00:00 Tools
Ring Bell 00:00 Tools
Lizard Logic 00:00 Tools
Happy Chappy 00:00 Tools
Belfast Blues 00:00 Tools
In Christ There Is No East or West 00:00 Tools
Meesa Kaibash 00:00 Tools
The Bright Field 00:00 Tools
The Drowsy Bee 00:00 Tools
The Time I Spend With You 00:00 Tools
Mountain 00:00 Tools
Triangular Situations 00:00 Tools
Only For A Moment 00:00 Tools
Rich Tonight 00:00 Tools
All That is Gold 00:00 Tools
54-46 (Was My Number) 00:00 Tools
Johnny's Farewell 00:00 Tools
Working Dog 00:00 Tools
All Blues 00:00 Tools
Magpie 00:00 Tools
What Wonderous Love 00:00 Tools
Author 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Walker Percy 00:00 Tools
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 00:00 Tools
Goodby Percy Walker 00:00 Tools
In The Evening 00:00 Tools
I Bid You Goodnight 00:00 Tools
Liberation Waltz 00:00 Tools
Inland Sailor 00:00 Tools
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 00:00 Tools
Chasing The Groove (Live) 00:00 Tools
Kar-Kar 00:00 Tools
Walk You Off My Mind 00:00 Tools
Chasing The Groove 00:00 Tools
Frank Delandry 00:00 Tools
Amazing Grace 00:00 Tools
Jaguar 00:00 Tools
Old Blue 00:00 Tools
South Hill 00:00 Tools
Before Coffee 00:00 Tools
Statesboro Blues 00:00 Tools
Weepin' Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
May You Never 00:00 Tools
Vagabond Blues 00:00 Tools
Mother Earth 00:00 Tools
Aguinaldo Jibara 00:00 Tools
Birth Of The True 00:00 Tools
Late Night Train 00:00 Tools
Some Other Time 00:00 Tools
61 Highway 00:00 Tools
Seven Sisters 00:00 Tools
Love In Vain 00:00 Tools
Beaumont Rag 00:00 Tools
Tell Me What Is True Love? 00:00 Tools
When the Dentist Dreams 00:00 Tools
Martha 00:00 Tools
Ten Penny Bit 00:00 Tools
My Love Will Follow You 00:00 Tools
Far Away 00:00 Tools
Caves of Missouri 00:00 Tools
Wanderer's Song 00:00 Tools
Half The Grace 00:00 Tools
Louis Collins 00:00 Tools
If I Never 00:00 Tools
Trouble In Mind 00:00 Tools
Winter Moon 00:00 Tools
Knife Edge 00:00 Tools
Dancer's Delight 00:00 Tools
Sugar Sweet 00:00 Tools
All Been Said 00:00 Tools
Mercy Illinois 00:00 Tools
Last Chance Love 00:00 Tools
Grinnin' In Your Face 00:00 Tools
Everywhere 00:00 Tools
Singing In The Dark 00:00 Tools
Jane 00:00 Tools
I Will 00:00 Tools
Watch The Stars 00:00 Tools
Honey Babe 00:00 Tools
Deep River Blues 00:00 Tools
I Wonder As I Wander 00:00 Tools
Devil's Punchbowl 00:00 Tools
House of Truth 00:00 Tools
One Day I Walk 00:00 Tools
You're The Top 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know Me 00:00 Tools
Same Ol Me 00:00 Tools
She Loves Me (When I Try) 00:00 Tools
Joanna 00:00 Tools
Love Me Tender (Aka Aura Lee) 00:00 Tools
Chelsea Boots 00:00 Tools
Peacemaker's Hornpipe 00:00 Tools
We Will Dance Someday 00:00 Tools
Pet Sounds 00:00 Tools
The Master of Silence (Slight Return) 00:00 Tools
Rotterdam Bar 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know My Mind 00:00 Tools
Stormy Weather 00:00 Tools
Demented Folk Tune 00:00 Tools
Mercury Blues 00:00 Tools
Light of Day 00:00 Tools
Forget About Him 00:00 Tools
Railwalker 00:00 Tools
This World Is Not My Home 00:00 Tools
Tulips In the Spring 00:00 Tools
Great Big Sea 00:00 Tools
King of California 00:00 Tools
Mason-Dixon Line 00:00 Tools
Nothing at All 00:00 Tools
Moon On Down 00:00 Tools
Search for You 00:00 Tools
How The Night-time Sings 00:00 Tools
Jubilee 00:00 Tools
Lee's Highway 00:00 Tools
Yellow Hummingbird 00:00 Tools
Quiet Days 00:00 Tools
Boy's First Thaw 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
Crazy Dance 00:00 Tools
Minor Maybe 00:00 Tools
Monterey Pines 00:00 Tools
Night Fears 00:00 Tools
Morning, Captain 00:00 Tools
Unexpected Rose 00:00 Tools
Threadbare Soul 00:00 Tools
Won't You Meet Me? 00:00 Tools
Miles Away 00:00 Tools
Lightning (Going Back to Texas) 00:00 Tools
Mystery 00:00 Tools
May You Never (John Martyn cover) 00:00 Tools
My Turn Now 00:00 Tools
Weepin’ Willow Blues 00:00 Tools
Hello Heartbreak 00:00 Tools
Someone Else to Blame 00:00 Tools
Through the Darkening Night 00:00 Tools
Faces Of Light 00:00 Tools
Don’t Get Around Much Any More 00:00 Tools
Take My Hand Precious Lord 00:00 Tools
Happy All the Time 00:00 Tools
Darker Kind Of Blue 00:00 Tools
Los Padres 00:00 Tools
Hesitation Blues 00:00 Tools
Sitting on Top of the World 00:00 Tools
Home By Dawn 00:00 Tools
Minutes to Midnight 00:00 Tools
From Boston to Dublin 00:00 Tools
One Step 00:00 Tools
On The Rolling Sea 00:00 Tools
Goin' Away 00:00 Tools
Some Fine Day 00:00 Tools
Big Change 00:00 Tools
Great Dream Of Heaven 00:00 Tools
Year Began 00:00 Tools
Navigator 00:00 Tools
Promises/What The Builder Left Behind 00:00 Tools
Monkey 00:00 Tools
How Long (Til I'm in My Baby's Arms) 00:00 Tools
Narrow Boat 00:00 Tools
Darkness 00:00 Tools
Joker's Wild 00:00 Tools
This Time 00:00 Tools
Look What The Cat Dragged In 00:00 Tools
Rosalyn 00:00 Tools
Your Mind Is on Vacation 00:00 Tools
Vancouver 00:00 Tools
When I Reach 00:00 Tools
Mockingbird Hill 00:00 Tools
Teach Me 00:00 Tools
Kar Kar 00:00 Tools
Springfield Mountain 00:00 Tools
Nine Day's Wonder 00:00 Tools
Postcard From The Gulfside 00:00 Tools
Seasons of the Year 00:00 Tools
Prosperity 00:00 Tools
Songs My Brother Taught Me 00:00 Tools
All The Ways You Wander 00:00 Tools
Promises Revisited 00:00 Tools
Baby O 00:00 Tools
Carry On (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Wins 00:00 Tools
Reina's Lullabye 00:00 Tools
Take My Hand, Precious Lord 00:00 Tools
Tenpenny Bit 00:00 Tools
New Everything 00:00 Tools
The Good And The Bad 00:00 Tools
Son of a Gun 00:00 Tools
What Do I Need To Do 00:00 Tools
Carry On 00:00 Tools
My Babe 00:00 Tools
Georgia 00:00 Tools
Time 4 Love 00:00 Tools
Shaking These Christmas Blues 00:00 Tools
Moon Over Maverick 00:00 Tools
Playground Games 00:00 Tools
From Four Until Late 00:00 Tools
Three Little Words 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Winter Moon II 00:00 Tools
Bright Side of the Blues 00:00 Tools
Time I Spend with You 00:00 Tools
Tippers 00:00 Tools
You Never Can Tell 00:00 Tools
Backwater Blues 00:00 Tools
Willie Mae Browne 00:00 Tools
What Do I Need To Do? 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Any More 00:00 Tools
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Something You Got 00:00 Tools
Mama's Song 00:00 Tools
On The Rollin' Sea 00:00 Tools
Bonus Reprise 00:00 Tools
Always the Same 00:00 Tools
I Will Do My Last Singing 00:00 Tools
How the Nighttime Sings 00:00 Tools
Baby-O 00:00 Tools
Lightning 00:00 Tools
Save the Bones 00:00 Tools
After You've Gone 00:00 Tools
Mother Earth (Memphis Slim cover) 00:00 Tools
Here Comes the Blues 00:00 Tools
Are You Tired of Me, My Darling? 00:00 Tools
Baby-O! 00:00 Tools
Tulips In The Spring (Live) 00:00 Tools
Gambling Man 00:00 Tools
Blues is First 00:00 Tools
Willie Mae Brown 00:00 Tools
Same Ol' Me 00:00 Tools
Mercy Illinois (Live) 00:00 Tools
Hard Love 00:00 Tools
She Loves Me (When I Try) (Dougie MacLean cover) 00:00 Tools
How Long 00:00 Tools
Rock Me 00:00 Tools
Dusty Road 00:00 Tools
Whatever It Takes 00:00 Tools
Big Blue Wonder 00:00 Tools
Reina's Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Engulfed 00:00 Tools
My Love Will Follow You (Buddy and Julie Miller cover) 00:00 Tools
Acquainted with the Night 00:00 Tools
Jump That Train 00:00 Tools
No Easy Way Back 00:00 Tools
Going to New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Weather the Storm 00:00 Tools
She Loves Me(When I Try) 00:00 Tools
I Wonder As I Wanter 00:00 Tools
Nine Days Wonder 00:00 Tools
Postcard From Gulfside 00:00 Tools
Streets of Heaven 00:00 Tools
Good Man Down 00:00 Tools
Aquinaldo Jibara 00:00 Tools
Anguinaldo Jibara 00:00 Tools
Statesboro Blues (McTell) 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Anymore 00:00 Tools
Don't Get Around Much Any More 00:00 Tools
Knife Edge (Live) 00:00 Tools
Jericho 00:00 Tools
The Monte Vista 00:00 Tools
Tulips in the Spring [Live] 00:00 Tools
Baby O! 00:00 Tools
O Leãozinho 00:00 Tools
Blues To Stay 00:00 Tools
Over the Hill 00:00 Tools
11 Demented Folk Tune 00:00 Tools
Geography 00:00 Tools
Pavilions (Until The Time Is Right) 00:00 Tools
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Brooks Williams (born November 10, 1958, in Statesboro, Georgia) is an American acoustic guitarist and singer/songwriter. His style combines roots, jazz, blues, classical, and folk. Since 1989 he has been releasing albums of contemporary folk music, as well as some consisting of instrumental guitar music. Williams is a stunning blues-soaked, rhythmic, and soulful guitarist. His musical vision spans continents and genres – blues, slide, swingin’ jazz, fingerstyle – and manifests itself in a hybrid of funky chords, walking bass lines, and fiery leads. With influences as diverse as John Fahey, Michael Bloomfield, and Joseph Spence, it is pleasantly difficult to pin Williams down. He’s a guitarist, a songwriter, and an interpreter. For example, Williams’ signature guitar riffs can be heard in between news segments on National Public Radio in the United States, his song Forget About Him is a mainstay on XM Radio, and his cover of the Blind Boy Fuller classic Weepin’ Willow Blues regularly brings audiences to their feet. Williams is also one of the most entertaining and engaging performers on the circuit today. His concerts are legendary: a constantly evolving mix of blues, originals, ballads, and instrumentals, presented in a fresh and personable way. More than one audience member has been heard to muse about a Brooks Williams concert: “Now there’s a musician who loves his work!” From coast-to-coast, country-to-country, Williams and his guitars roll and tumble like nobody’s business. A self-professed road warrior, Williams has toured relentlessly throughout his 20-year (and counting!) career, zig-zagging back and forth across the United States and Canada, plus regularly hopping overseas to England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. He’s a mainstay on club, coffeehouse and festival stages, including The Marlborough Jazz Festival in Marlborough, England, Whelan's in Dublin, Ireland, Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, The Snow Goose Theater in Anchorage, Alaska, Summer-fest in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Uncle Calvin's in Dallas, Texas (to name but a very few). Says Williams: "My favorite hours of the day are when I’m on-stage!" Brooks Williams is from Statesboro, Georgia – the town made famous by Blind Willie McTell in his song Statesboro Blues – but musically came into his own in Boston, Massachusetts. While nearly everyone else was peddling vinyl and cassettes, Williams was one of the first independent artists to release a recording on compact disc. His 1990 direct-to-digital showcase of solo guitar and voice, North From Statesboro, turned heads. North From Statesboro was just the tip of the iceberg. Subsequent albums, each different and daring in some way, received constant airplay on public and college radio and garnered him praise from the likes of All Things Considered, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Acoustic Guitar, Performing Songwriter, and Guitar Player, including the ground-breaking Back To Mercy (1992), the best-selling Knife Edge (1996), the instrumental gem Little Lion (2000), and his classic Blues and Ballads (2006). Williams has released fifteen CDs to date (all available on iTunes) on labels like Green Linnet, Signature Sounds, and Solid Air. Williams, who now makes his home in the Northampton area of Western Massachusetts, has already begun plans to record a new CD in early Summer 2007. And discussions have begun regarding a concert DVD and an instructional DVD. Brooks Williams has also recorded tracks for an impressive list of compilations. Most notably is the National Reso-phonic Instrumental Project (proceeds benefit BluesAid and the Music Maker Relief Foundation), Letters To Bert (a tribute to guitar legend Bert Jansch), and Wonderland, a holiday sampler from Signature Sounds (which features Brooks’ Dave-Brubeck-meets-Tony-Rice treatment of I Wonder As I Wander). Coming in 2007 is the Steve Tilston box set (a tribute album), which features Brooks’ arrangement of Here Comes The Night, and DeLovely Guitar, a guitar tribute to the music of Cole Porter put out by Solid Air Records and includes Williams’ arrangement of You’re The Top. Another stunning compilation is the memoir Between The Strings: The Secret Lives of Guitars, an engaging collection of essays written by guitarists about their guitars. In addition to Brooks’ essay about temporarily losing his beloved red guitar while on tour in Ireland, are essays by B.B. King, Doc Watson, Laurence Juber, Tuck Andress, and George Benson, among others. Over the years the breadth of Brooks Williams’ musical vision has broadened and deepened beyond solo recording and performing. This certifiable triple-threat (guitarist, songwriter, singer) is also a fearless collaborator and educator. His collaborations include his critically acclaimed duo with violinist and singer Rani Arbo (which has fans lining up around the block to experience their eclectic take on swing, jazz, and traditional music), his Guitar Summit concerts of Blues and American Songbook explorations with fellow-guitarist Paul Asbell, the guitarist-singer-in-the-round concerts with Garnet Rogers, and the Trans-Atlantic Song-swap concerts with English guitarist and songwriter Steve Tilston. Brooks Williams is also a well-respected teacher who regularly leads guitar, performance, and songwriting workshops at The Swannanoa Gathering (North Carolina), Augusta Heritage Guitar Week (West Virginia), Midnight Sun Song Camp (Alaska), Cedar Run Song Workshops (Virginia), Newport Guitar Festival (Rhode Island), and Summer Acoustic Music Week (New Hampshire), to name but a few. Additionally, Williams runs a series of very successful summer day camps teaching beginning blues and roots guitar to kids. Williams is devoted to not only preserving the art of the acoustic guitar but to educating a future generation of players. Brooks Williams’ music rocks like the blues and swings like jazz. It is as fresh and original as any music you are likely to hear - and inspires Dirty Linen magazine to call Brooks Williams one of "America's musical treasures." Website: www.brookswilliams.com Read more on Last.fm. 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