Jack Williams
www.jackwilliamsmusic.com

South Carolinian Jack Williams is a guitarist / singer / songwriter based in Kerrville, Texas. He is outstanding among the handful of artists who - in skill, depth and integrity - are simply beyond the pale of most performers on the circuit.  Among acoustic guitarists he is near-legendary. Having avoided the compromises of the commercial music industry during his 40+ year professional career, he prefers working the road, playing coffeehouses, concerts festivals and house concerts week in, week out, from the sheer love of music and performing.

In recent years, Jack has emerged from self-imposed obscurity to become firmly established in the contemporary acoustic - or "folk" - music world. This has led him to acclaimed appearances this year at the Newport and Boston Folk Festivals, as well as at recent Kerrville and Philadelphia Festivals, and at several Folk Alliance Conferences, where his guitar-playing, songs, and commanding personal presence always caused a considerable buzz.

Jack has been writing since 1970, and has four CDs of original music on the Wind River (Folk Era) label: Highway From Back Home , Dreams of the Song Dog, Across the Winterline, and Eternity & Main. His fifth and sixth albums will be released by early 2003. 

As a guitarist, he has been invited to accompany Tom Paxton, Peter Yarrow, Mickey Newbury and many others. Recently, in a Worcester, Massachusetts Arlo Guthrie concert, he was invited by Guthrie to join him on stage and sing one of his own songs, and then to join Arlo’s group for the final half-hour of the concert. As a producer he worked on CDs by Mickey Newbury, Carla Ulbrich, and, most recently, Eric Schwartz.

Peter Yarrow called Jack  "The best guitar-player I've ever heard."