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Johnny Williams

  • Johnny Williams named 2022 Crooked Road Artist in Residence

    August 3, 2022 | by John Lawless

    The Crooked Road, the Commonwealth of Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, has announced that bluegrass singer and songwriter Johnny Williams will serve as their 2022-2023 Artist In Residence. Johnny has been a staple in the southwestern Virginia traditional music scene for more

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  • Wasted on the Way video from Shelton & Williams

    March 29, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Perennial bluegrass singers and songwriters Johnny and Jeanette Williams have teamed up with returning bluegrass artist Jay Shelton for a new album and tour as Shelton & Williams. They got together just as the pandemic hit, and have been rehearsing

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  • Thirty Years Later – Johnny & Jeanette Williams

    March 17, 2020 | by Lee Zimmerman

    The title is ingrained with fact, not fiction. Johnny and Jeanette Williams have a combined career that includes numerous awards and nominations, as well as the highest accolades accorded to proven participants in today’s bluegrass circles. Both members of this

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  • More Baker photos from Wide Open Bluegrass

    October 6, 2016 | by Frank Baker

    Here's one more gallery of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's Wide Open Bluegrass celebration in Raleigh.

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  • Southport Songwriting Festival debuts this weekend

    June 15, 2015 | by John Lawless

    Award-winning songwriter Louisa Branscomb and her non-profit, Front Porch Productions, will host the first Southport Songwriter Festival this weekend in the coastal town of Southport, NC. But unlike many similar events, this one isn't centrally located, but spread across a number

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  • Going My Way – Johnny Williams

    December 30, 2014 | by John Lawless

    When the top traditional bluegrass singers are named, you expect to hear Larry Sparks mentioned, and James King. Perhaps Danny Paisley as well, and Junior Sisk. But a name you don't hear often enough is Johnny Williams, who can throw

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  • New single from Summer McMahan

    January 7, 2014 | by John Lawless

    Summer McMahan, the talented lead singer for Mountain Faith, has struck out on her own with a new self-produced solo project, The Story Of My Life. In reviewing the band's last album, Battlefield, we offered high praise for her singing and

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  • Close Kin follow-up to feature young pickers

    October 29, 2013 | by John Lawless

    Karl Cooler of Mountain Roads Recordings and singer, songwriter and producer Johnny Williams have teamed up for a follow-up to their 2011 collaboration, Close Kin-A Reunion of Bluegrass & Old Time Music. That album was just what the title suggests,

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  • Johnny and Jeanette Williams

    September 26, 2013 | by David Morris

    David Morris caught up yesterday with Johnny & Jeanette Williams here at World of Bluegrass in Raleigh.  

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  • Bad Girls and Banjos

    March 6, 2013 | by David Morris

    Louisa Branscomb didn’t, as Stephen Foster might have put it, come from Alabama with a banjo on her knee. She couldn’t. Girls didn’t play banjo. “I heard that a million times when I was girl,” Louisa told me the other night.

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