Robin and Linda Williams
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Years active1971–present
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Websitewww.robinandlinda.com

Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They met in South Carolina in 1971,[1][2] and began performing in 1973.[3]

The Williamses appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show from 1975.[4] The duo were members of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Keillor and Kate MacKenzie.[1][5] After touring with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1993,[6] the pair later sang on her Grammy Award-winning album Stones in the Road.[7] Sugar for Sugar spent 11 weeks in the top 20 of the Americana Chart in the Gavin Report in 1996. In 2004, they switched labels, recording Deeper Waters as their first release on Red House Records.[8]

The Williamses appeared in the film A Prairie Home Companion.[9] They appeared on the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, hosted by Michael Johnathon.

Discography

  • Robin & Linda Williams (1975)
  • Shenandoah Moon (1977)
  • Welcome Table (1978)
  • Dixie Highway Sign (1979)
  • Harmony (1981)
  • Close As We Can Get (1984)
  • Nine 'Til Midnight (1985)
  • All Broken Hearts Are the Same (1988)
  • Rhythm of Love (1990)
  • Turn Toward Tomorrow
  • Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine Group Live (1994)
  • Good News (1995)
  • Sugar for Sugar (1996)
  • Devil of a Dream (1998)
  • In the Company of Strangers (2000)
  • Visions of Love (2002)
  • Deeper Waters (2004)
  • The First Christmas Gift (2005)
  • Radio Songs (2007)
  • Buena Vista (2008)
  • Stonewall Country (2011)
  • These Old Dark Hills (2012)
  • Back 40 (2013)

References

  1. 1 2 "Country singers Robin, Linda Williams live at the Mainstay". The Star Democrat. December 11, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Robin & Linda Williams: They're in the company of strangers". Index-Journal. March 19, 2000. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Farmer, Lori (July 23, 1993). "Singer electrifying: Review". Mansfield News Journal. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Robin and Linda Williams are ingrained like family". The Morning Call. December 16, 2007. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ Gabriele, Tony (January 4, 2002). "Williamsburg Theater to 'Companion' regulars". Daily Press. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Robin and Linda Williams play Saturday in Oxford". Press & Sun-Bulletin. May 30, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  7. ↑ "A Prairie Home Companion bio of Robin & Linda Williams". American Public Media. May 5, 2001. Archived from the original on November 24, 2017. Retrieved July 5, 2008.
  8. ↑ Harris, Rich (February 29, 2004). "Robin and Linda Williams, "Deeper Waters" (Red House)". Globe Gazette. Retrieved October 21, 2018.
  9. ↑ Gehman, Geoff (December 16, 2007). "'Prairie Home' guitarist Pat Donohue a wearer of many shoes". The Morning Call. Retrieved October 21, 2018.


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