Mark Williams

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My name is Mark Williams am new on the numberonemusic scene. Please checkout my songs Who I Am and When I Leave My Bed which are currently number 4 and number 11 on the UK Blues chart, In fact if you want to purchase When I Leave My Bed via cdbaby on the link below:

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Please subscribe to my mailing list so that I can keep you up to date with new releases.

Keep on keeping on

Mark

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I have recently received requests to purchase When I Leave My Bed and so I have made it available for purchase for $0.99 via cdbaby at the link below.

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I will be uploading two new songs this week and so please have a listen and let me know what you think.

Many thanks to you for your continued support

Best wishes

Mark

Hi

First of all let me say a big thank you for taking the time to listen to le Dip Recession Bluesmy music and subscribe, I very much appreciate it especially because I am new to numberonemusic and because of your subscriptions my latest song When I Leave My Bed has reached number 6 in the UK Blues Chart, and so a big thank you to all of you have given that a listen. You may also like Double Dip Recession Blues, which is essentially a rant about the current economic situation here in the UK set to music.

Anyhow, my next release this month is going to a song called 'Friday Night When I Get Paid' and is a reflection on my attitude to life when I was a much younger man in fact probably a callow youth. I am expecting that to mixed and mastered within the next week.

Thanks once again for your support and please have a listen to the rest of my songs.
Coming soon - A song about a breakfast cereal habit I once had :)

Born in Manchester in 1961 I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller and various other crooners and swing bands. At age 11 I started to play the violin, playing in the school orchestra and latterly the Manchester Youth Orchestra, the highlight of my fiddle playing career was a week long tour of Belgium with the orchestra with the Manchester Mass, a lesser known work written to commemorate the Queens Silver Jubilee. I first picked up a guitar when I was at age 15, by this time I was into Sabbath, Zeppelin, Floyd, Kiss etc. I was off school with flu and my brother had a cheap spanish guitar and tutorial lying around and so to kill the boredom I decided to teach myself to play, the rest as they say is history. At age 17 me and my mate Ian (latterly Redhot Red of Rox fame) started jamming together and put a band together called Venom (not the Newcastle satanic Rock band) which was a ram shackle fusion of heavy metal, new wave and Roxy Music, I played bass in this 4 piece and after several changes in line up and well and truly a heavy metal band I decided it wasn't for me and joined a local blues outfit Crystal Climax Blues Band, continuing on the bass, by this time I was married, that didn't last long, and I left the band after about a year. I have never played with a band since but I have on and off played some solo sets at folk nights, playing some Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan stuff etc. To cut a long storry short, all these different musical influences have shaped my song writing and I continue study blues music and I am continually learning and growing as a song writer and performer, at the age I am I am still work in progress, but aren't we all!
I have two more songs to complete which are Friday Night When I get Paid and Weetabix Bliues and then my Album 'Ramblings from a Back Street' will be finished and available for purchase either as an entire album or as single tracks. The proceeds will go entirely to two UK charities that are dear to me, NOrth Wst Heart and Lung Centre in Manachester because they saved my life and Reubens retreat, a charity set up to provide as supportive environment for families of terminally ill children, but I will tell you more about that in due course.