Tim Williams - So Low (2015)

Imagine, if you can, a front porch where Robert Johnson, Hand Williams, Hula Hattie, Flaco Jimenez and Bob Marley meet often and discover just how much they have in common. Tim's music would fit right in.

Solo (So Low) means just that. No guests, not even any overdubs or edits. Two hands, a good instrument, a voice, and the tapping of a two-tone wing-tip shoe. And nothing plugged in but the microphones and recording gear. I still work most of the time as a solo act and decided it was high time to do a studio recording that way. When I first heard Leadbelly and Big Bill, and when I first saw Lightnin’ Hopkins on television, all as a kid, they played solo and it blew me away. I have never lost my fascination with solo performance, especially on guitar, from Robert Johnson to Richard Thompson. A voice, a guitar, a story, and the means with which to tell it.