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BABY O! is here and is available on this website's STORE. Official release dates are: 2 March 2010 in the US and 5 April 2010 in the UK. Tours to follow. BABY O! will be available worldwide for purchase and download by 5 April 2010.


BABY O! AND GREENER PACKAGING! Baby O!, manufactured in the US by Oasis Disc Manufacturing, features the all-natural Digipaks (100% Green Forestry Practices Certified board stock and high-quality vegetable based ink on both the board and the discs) and an eco-friendly plastic disc tray made from water bottles (every order of 1,000 spares 400 water bottles from the incinerator or landfill).


BLUES GUITAR WITH BROOKS WILLIAMS! Brooks will be filming a new guitar lesson DVD at Woodhall Music in late Winter 2010. This one is an introduction to blues guitar. Stay tuned for more details!


GUITAR GROOVE: A SESSION WITH BROOKS WILLIAMS is a 90-minute guitar lesson with Brooks. Visit the website STORE to order your copy today!
Brooks Williams makes Top 100 Acoustic Guitarist list - in company with Leo Kottke, Michael Hedge, Chet Atkins, Doc Watson, David Bromberg, and others.
WUMB-FM Radio listeners vote Brooks Williams one of the TOP 100 Folk Artists Of The Past 25 Years!
 
 
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Welcome to the website for guitarist Brooks Williams! Please feel free to browse these pages for Brooks Williams' current tour schedule and latest music happenings. Thank you for stopping by - and check back often for updates!

About Brooks

Blues Americana guitarist singer and songwriter Brooks Williams delivers the deepest and most intense interpretations of everything from early blues songs to his recent original compositions on Baby O!, his 17th CD (and his first recorded in the UK).

A 23-year veteran of the road and living the trans-Atlantic life between Cambridge (UK) and Boston (US), on Baby O! Williams sings about a forgotten New Orleans guitarist, a Mississippi tragedy, the ache of long-distance love, staying true in the face of adversity, and not giving up on love. Williams’ voice floats over foot-stomping grooves, rollicking acoustic guitar riffs and stinging resonator slide lines supported by bass, steel, and harmonica.
 
Produced by Williams and engineered by Andy Bell (Seasick Steve), Baby O! is his most immediate and compelling roots record to date. The music that traveled across the ocean from the US to the UK on scratchy records and static-laden radio signals in the 1950s and early 1960s, then travelled back across to the US via records, singers and guitarists from the UK in the late 1960s and 1970s, continues its journey back and forth in the on-going singing of a timeless song.

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Brooks Williams is rated one of the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists (#57) and is as diverse and versatile a musician as you are likely to encounter. He regularly brings audiences to their feet and is quite simply one of the most entertaining and engaging performers on the circuit today. Check out Brooks Williams at a venue near you! And watch this space for reviews of Baby O!

“A consummate artist, Williams ranks among America's musical treasures.” Dirty Linen

“Harmonically sophisticated and breathtakingly beautiful…” Guitar Player

“How soulful a solo guitarist can be when he has talent, taste and astonishing technique.” Blues Revue 

“...vital, bright-eyed and bright-fingered...” (Net Rhythms)

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