Philip Williams

Please visit my website at: http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/politti/167/index.htm There you can get most of the information you would need to know about me and my musical history. You can order the CD "Come To The Farm" by mail only. It's not sold in stores at this time. To order send Check or Money Order in the amount of $10.00 to: Freedom Road Music 76 Pine Hollow Athens, Ga. 30601 Shipping and Handling is included in the price. Please allow time for your check to clear the bank. Thanks for listening!!

The music you will hear is an interesting blend of rock, country, pop,and blues with a hint of alternative thrown in. It wasn't planned that way, it just happened. Most songs were written by a long time friend of mine Mark Lord. I help on arrangement and throw in a song of my own every now and then. Mark and I met back in 1970 while working together at a hamburger joint called Burger Chef. We were both in high school at the time and rock music was ruling the music world, not to mention our lives. After leaving the job at the hamburger joint, Mark and I went our seperate ways and our paths hardly crossed again until the year 2000 where once again we were employed together, this time for the DuPont Company. I had been there since I was 18 years old and Mark had just started there employed by a contractor that DuPont had been using for some time. That's how all this got started. Mark, a very prolific muscian and songwriter, asked me if I would be interested in recording some songs that he had written, knowing that I had been singing in bands over the years. I said why not and Mark gave me a tape with a song called "Waydown and Lonesome" on it, (featured in samples). I was very impressed with the sound and the personal feelings I could hear in the lyrics. The recording went well thus starting a musical relationship that so far has resulted in 33 songs recorded with more on the way. Take a chance on this stuff, you might like it!!

Right now I don't have a band. My CD and all other work I'm doing musically is a total home project with my writing partner Mark Lord. I certainly need a band but the recording takes up a lot of my time right now. It's nice to have something to promote if I get a band started up. I do have plenty of experience performing live from being in bands in the past. I hit the Karaoke bars from time to time (woopee) just to get my voice heard.

I was born in Athens, Ga. on Feb. 7, 1955. I have lived in the Athens area for all of my life. I was raised in a very middle class family with one brother and one sister, both of them older than me, 10 years and 8 years respectively. I have all sorts of musical influence from 50's Rock-n-Roll and Rockabilly to Country and 60's Rock and R&B. Having the pleasure of growing up in these times I've seen music change in many ways. Of course I got caught up in the British invasion right when it was happening although I was only 10 years old. I then started enjoying more of the harder type of rock music, Hendrix, Zeppelin, Floyd, Stones and on and on but the Georgia boys, the Allman brothers stole my heart. That's sound is what created the British music movement. Just ask Clapton or Jagger even Bowie. Now in the mainstream it's getting lost just because it's Southern and white even though it's a tribute to the black blues and impoverished white folk(coutry and bluegrass) that still found something to keep them going, music from their soul. Rock n Roll was born in the South. I always tried to keep an open mind towards music because I saw it as pure expression and an art form. It was hard to be that way with the peer pressures of High School and so on. I started trying to play the guitar at the age of 12 even taking some lessons but my real ambition was to be a vocalist.