Kevin t. Williams
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Read moreThank you so much for including us in your musical experience! My brand new band RAWHIDE! is going to do exciting things this coming year so stay tuned. & remember the If we Live CD with the song "Diamonds in the Sun" is available on iTunes!.....t........ THANX AGAIN!...
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If We Live
This a video from my brand new band RAWHIDE! It's a 3 piece power trio. We call it "Heartland Rock & Roll"! Myself on Vocals, Guitar, Song writing & Production- Mike "Sully" Sullivan / Bass- Bryan Panzeri / Drums......Enjoy!
Read moreThank you all so much for listening to this Music. We created this CD with the intention to heal the spirit & sooth the soul. We hope that you can enjoy with your whole heart. & we appreciate your support.
Read moreBio The list of musicians that Kevin T. Williams has played with, influenced and shared his remarkable talents with is truly staggering. He started his musical odyssey at the age of 2 in the place where most African-American singers start, the church. Growing up in Watts, California, Williams soaked up every musical influence that the city could offer. Latin, African, Motown, Funk, Soul and Rock and Roll were all in his own unique style by the time he joined his first band at the age of 13. His journey through the LA music scene and over 30 countries throughout the world has been bright and exciting. He is currently going strong with his solo career and has a long list of recordings, production and song writing credits (including “Tell Me Why” co-written with South African singer Jonathan Butler and produced by Earth Wind and Fire front man Maurice White). With many CD’s recorded at his home studio, the Soul Cottage, Williams is ready to take his” Spirit Music” to the next level.“Higher Self’ deals with Kevin’s “pilgrimage” to Israel for a series of shows in Tel Aviv as well as northern and southern Israel. While there he visited Jerusalem, a life long dream and a mind-altering event. This set of introspective songs is Williams searching for his own spiritual and musical truth. As far back as 1981 Williams was already a fixture on the LA music scene. Landing the sound man job at the legendary (expired link). Club in Silver lake, the exploding mix of Ska, reggae and paisley underground groups including THE BANGLES, THE UNTOUCHABLES and FISHBONE inspired Williams to start his own Psychedelic reggae group THE HOT SPOTS. In 1985 Williams had his first taste of real Hollywood. Joining Talk Back which was signed with A&M records, the band was featured in the John Hughes movie Pretty in Pink. They then toured the country for sometime before breaking up shortly in 1987. Exhausted from 5 straight years of touring the (expired link). and Canada as lead vocalist with the seminal World Beat group The BONEDADDYS, Kevin decided to take a break from the road and soak up the LA vibe in the summer of 1992. He immediately walked into the now defunct KING- KING Club in mid-town. There he was to hook up with a long time friend, drummer WILLIE McNEIL (JUMP WITH JOEY, JOE STRUMMER, THE HOT SPOTS,). He soon found himself in a new band as well as the new musical direction he was looking for, Acid Jazz! THE SOLSONICS were quickly signed to EMI/ CHRYSALIS records. The group toured in Europe, South America and the (expired link). After another well received European tour and a new president at EMI, the band was dropped from the label. This did nothing to dampen Williams’ love for music but instead gave him the opportunity to start his own band with his new vision of where he thought American music was headed. True Soul Music. (Kevin t. Williams currently playing Guitar & singing with The Untouchables the legendary Mod-Ska band)
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"If We Live"
Kevin Williams' Album Dedicated to Cancer Healing (You can purchase this song & the entire CD here).....(expired link) "If We Live"
Kevin Williams' Album Dedicated to Cancer Healing (You can purchase this song & the entire CD here).....(expired link)... It started as a conversation about Charles Bukowski -- Bukowski being the writer behind works like "About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter" and Ham on Rye, the semi-autobiographical novel about an outsider with disfiguring acne. This was December of 2012, but as the topic of Kevin
Williams and Jenny Moller's conversation may indicate, it was not exactly time of holiday cheer.
Musician and producer Williams and his singer friend Moller were reflecting on the year that had passed. Moller had lost friends over the holiday season to cancer. And Williams, like so many of us, knew what it was like to lose loved ones to the disease -- including the woman who raised him, his beloved grandmother, Juanita.
Williams and Moller knew they had a choice. They could wallow in the pain of their losses. They could follow Bukowski's approach and turn to drink. Or they could make something
beautiful out of it and, as Williams put it, "Get together and make some music." Williams planned to build two tracks for Moller. But when he didn't hear from his vocalist friend
for a couple of weeks after their conversation, he kept going. All of a sudden he had 10 tracks ready to go, which is a little like an architect with a blueprint and a yard full of bricks, but no team to help build a house.
Williams began reaching out to his musician friends. He started with Karl Leiker, a bassist and producer who, among other things, produced songs for the film Twilight sung by actor Robert Pattinson. At the time, Karl's wife of 16 years, Helen, was battling breast cancer. Next came Joel Scott, the legendary keyboardist and musical director for the Jackson 5 and Aretha Franklin,
whose mother had recently passed from cancer. Scott came in to record on December 14, 2012: the day of the Sandy Hook Element School shootings. If any single day could point to the fragility of life, and serve as a reminder to cherish our moments with our loved ones, that was it.
It was tragedy on a mass scale that seemed somehow connected to the musicians' personal losses. According to Williams, the shootings "changed his consciousness about these recordings." When Joel Scott left that night, Kevin sat and thought, "every person that I have recorded so far is dealing with cancer in a very personal way."
Seven months, 18 songs, 60 singers, songwriters, lyricists, musicians, and one mastering engineer later, the album was ready. By then it was unanimous: Kevin and his friends decided it should be dedicating to cancer healing -- specifically, by having proceeds benefit Stand Up To Cancer's researchers. And while inspired by tragedy, the music is anything but somber. The key
song of the recording is the New Orleans flavored celebration "If We Live," which includes a massive 57 singers on the chorus. It's a musical romp down Bourbon Street that's intended to leave listeners, according to Williams, "elated like a Mardi Gras experience."
But as life often does, the joy and elation of completing the album was coupled with tragedy. On the very day Kevin had completed mastering the CD, he received the news that bassist Karl Leiker's wife Helen had lost her three-year battle with breast cancer. "If We Live" is dedicated
to her life and spirit, and the life and spirit of fighters everywhere. Williams hopes even in the gloomiest times listeners will recall the album's key lyric: "If we love just a little bit longer.... it will be all right."
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