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ABOUT Scoring at least one major hit every year between 1974 and 1991, Williams had an impressive fifty-six chart records. Fifty of these reached the country Top Twenty, and forty-five made the Top Ten; seventeen went to #1. In 1978 he was the Country Music...
Don Williams: 5 Reasons the ‘Tulsa Time’ Singer Matters

Don Williams: 5 Reasons the ‘Tulsa Time’ Singer Matters

“I think I oughta say something about that song now,” Don Williams would tell concertgoers between the tunes he’d play while seated on a stool, guitar in hand. “I’ll think of something and say it later.” The joke being that country’s “Gentle Giant” would...
Don Williams, boy, he still means a lot to me

Don Williams, boy, he still means a lot to me

During my career at The Tennessean that rambled through four decades, I had the extraordinary fringe benefit of getting to meet and interview scores of actors, writers and singers whose talents I admired as an ordinary fan.  While I love a wide arrange...