UPPER LAKE — Lake County Wine Studio (LCWS) will present a one-night performance show with guitarist/song writer Jack Williams on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Williams” music, rooted in his native South Carolina, was shaped by a 54-year career of playing folk, rock, jazz, R&B, classical and the popular music of the ”30s, ”40s and ”50s.
Friendships with two singers had an impact on Williams” career and on the development of his own singing voice. In 1973, his relationship with the late Harry Nilsson resulted in an album effort at RCA during an ill-fated period of music industry turmoil.
Until 2002, he sometimes toured as solo accompanist to his friend, the late Mickey Newbury, with whom he co-wrote, co-produced and recorded a live album and video, “Nights when I am Sane” (reissued as “Winter Winds”).
From 1958 through 1988, along with playing jazz trumpet and classical guitar, Williams was best known as an electric guitarist in a series of original rock bands and smaller acoustic ensembles. As a hired-gun guitarist in the Deep South of the Civil Rights-Easy Rider 60s, Williams” bands accompanied the likes of John Lee Hooker, Big Joe Turner, Jerry Butler, Hank Ballard, the Shirelles and the Del-Vikings.
In the late ”60s he gave in to his troubadour nature and began performing solo – singing and playing a gut-string guitar and touring from coast to coast.
For reservations and additional information, contact Susan Feiler at 275-8030, 293-8752 or by email at susan@lakecountywinestudio.com. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
LCWS is located at 9505 Main St. in Upper Lake.
