One of the strongest guitarists in contemporary folk, South Carolina native Jack Williams writes music born at the meeting ground of the traditional and the contemporary. Finely honed over his four-decades-long professional career, Jack's original Southern-American songwriting draws deeply from the eclectic well of our musical heritage, with hints of Stephen Foster, Jimmie Rodgers, and Hoagy Carmichael. His fusion of strikingly original poetry, fluid guitar fingerpicking, clear tenor voice, and arresting stage presence is loaded with influences from a long and successful career in jazz, classical, rock, blues, country, and folk. This year Jack, who now resides in Kerrville, Texas, released two new albums, Walkin' Dreams and Live & In Good Company (Wind River).