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Hayward Williams Grew Up With A Guitar In His Hands Performing From An Early Age In Cafés Bars And Eventually Rock Clubs Throughout His Home State Of Wisconsin And Around The Midwest. A High School 'Battle Of The Bands' Champion The Textbook Lonely College Kid Making Dinner Dates With His Guitar Williams Took The Well-Worn Suburban Route To Musical Accomplishment He Hit The Ground Running With A '64 Gibson That His Mother Bought At A Garage Sale Listened Hard To Everything From The Beatles To Buckley And Somewhere Along The Way Began To Write The Tunes That Would Become His Own Voice.
In 2001 Williams Quit School To Join The Award-Winning Milwaukee Based Band Exit Named Wisconsin Band Of The Year In 2004 By The Wisconsin Area Music Industry. Lending Bass Guitar And Vocals To The Bands' Hook-Driven Pop Catalogue Williams Traveled The Midwest Circuit And Around The Country With Exit Cutting His Teeth As A Performer And Playing Everywhere From The Summerfest Stage In Wisconsin To CBGBs In New York City. The Regional Popularity Of Exit Gave Hayward Entrée Into Larger Clubs Even As He Was Honing The Catalogue Of Songs That Would Propel Him Toward More Intimate Settings.
In 2002 Williams Independently Released Manoverboard A Solo Project Recorded Under A Pseudonym Hayward Is Sneaky Which Allowed Him The Opportunity To Play Solo Engagements Throughout The Region And Served As The Foundation For Uphill /Downhill Hayward Williams's 2005 Debut. A Wilco-Esque Collision Of The Radio And Folk Idioms That Combines Smart Hooks With Deeply Textured Studio Atmospherics Uphill/Downhill Is An Impressive Collection Of 12 Original Songs That Moves Elegantly From Heartbreak To Self-Examination To Wonder Without The Self-Seriousness That Might Ordinarily Drag Such Wanderings Down.
Hayward's Live Shows Have Been Described As Having "...Everything You Could Hope For... Message Melody And Hooks" Vital Source And Feature His Facile Guitar And Thoughtful Distinctive Tenor Imagine The Honeyed Side Of Ryan Adams Jay Farrar's Earthy Grit The Playfulness Of Sam Cooke . Built On A Foundation Of Folk Blues And Soul Hayward's Songs In Performance Display The Raw Intensity Common To These Forms Tempered By His Own Easy Self-Possession And Wry Charm.
In Little Clubs And Smoky Bars Around The Midwest Armed With His Excellent Debut Record Uphill/Downhill And His Aw-Shucks Charisma Hayward Williams Is Quietly Building Both A Following And A Career The Old-Fashioned Way One Night At A Time.
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Hayward Williams - Careful Please Robyn Ludwick - Lolita Robyn Ludwick - Jealous Son Lynne Hanson - Riptide Kris Delmhorst - Mean Old Wind Tyler Ramsey - When It's Done Tyler Ramsey - Stay Gone Hayward Williams - Cleverly Disturbed Hayward Williams - 4th Time Around Ben Weaver - Grass Doe Ben Weaver - Split Ends Tom Russell - Gallo Del Cielo Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Roll On Buddy Jake Xerxes Fussell - Ragged Levy Jake Xerxes Fussell - Going To Georgia The Stray Birds - Give That Wildman A Knife/ Bellows Falls/ Waitin' On A Hannah The Dead Tongues - No Intentions The Dead Tongues - Call Out To Me The Stray Birds - Sparrow The Crooked Jades - The Bull And The Bear The Crooked Jades - A Broken Time Townes Van Zandt - Columbine Robert Ellis - Comin' Home Robert Ellis - What's In It For Me? Jeff Talmadge - First Day Of Winter Jeff Talmadge - Midnight Flight Robert Ellis - Pirate Stinger Robert Ellis - Lost Pirate Idea Robert Ellis - Boating Draft Robert Ellis - Have You Ever Wanted To Die? E.C. Ball - Nine Pound Hammer E.C. Ball - Mother's Prayers Were Not In Vain E.C. Ball - Paper Of Pins Sam Burchfield - Late To The Fire Sam Burchfield - Blue Ridge June Motel Motel - Helena, MT Motel Motel - Cowboy Danielle Doyle - My Bird Jamie Bendell - Chocolate Milk Jamie Bendell - I'm Not Yours Bill Staines - The Philosopher's Song Bill Staines - Gold Watch And Chain Bill Staines - The Lost Mine Of Chisos Bill Staines - I Can Feel The Sweet Wind Blowing Bill Staines - Denail Bill Staines - Cotten Pickin' Bill Staines - Spanish Is Loving Tongue Bill Staines - First People Bill Staines - Sweet Wyoming Home 1990 Bill Staines - Two Of A Kind
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Hayward Williams Grew Up With A Guitar In His Hands Performing From An Early Age In Cafés Bars And Eventually Rock Clubs Throughout His Home State Of Wisconsin And Around The Midwest. A High School 'Battle Of The Bands' Champion The Textbook Lonely College Kid Making Dinner Dates With His Guitar Williams Took The Well-Worn Suburban Route To Musical Accomplishment He Hit The Ground Running With A '64 Gibson That His Mother Bought At A Garage Sale Listened Hard To Everything From The Beatles To Buckley And Somewhere Along The Way Began To Write The Tunes That Would Become His Own Voice.
In 2001 Williams Quit School To Join The Award-Winning Milwaukee Based Band Exit Named Wisconsin Band Of The Year In 2004 By The Wisconsin Area Music Industry. Lending Bass Guitar And Vocals To The Bands' Hook-Driven Pop Catalogue Williams Traveled The Midwest Circuit And Around The Country With Exit Cutting His Teeth As A Performer And Playing Everywhere From The Summerfest Stage In Wisconsin To CBGBs In New York City. The Regional Popularity Of Exit Gave Hayward Entrée Into Larger Clubs Even As He Was Honing The Catalogue Of Songs That Would Propel Him Toward More Intimate Settings.
In 2002 Williams Independently Released Manoverboard A Solo Project Recorded Under A Pseudonym Hayward Is Sneaky Which Allowed Him The Opportunity To Play Solo Engagements Throughout The Region And Served As The Foundation For Uphill /Downhill Hayward Williams's 2005 Debut. A Wilco-Esque Collision Of The Radio And Folk Idioms That Combines Smart Hooks With Deeply Textured Studio Atmospherics Uphill/Downhill Is An Impressive Collection Of 12 Original Songs That Moves Elegantly From Heartbreak To Self-Examination To Wonder Without The Self-Seriousness That Might Ordinarily Drag Such Wanderings Down.
Hayward's Live Shows Have Been Described As Having "...Everything You Could Hope For... Message Melody And Hooks" Vital Source And Feature His Facile Guitar And Thoughtful Distinctive Tenor Imagine The Honeyed Side Of Ryan Adams Jay Farrar's Earthy Grit The Playfulness Of Sam Cooke . Built On A Foundation Of Folk Blues And Soul Hayward's Songs In Performance Display The Raw Intensity Common To These Forms Tempered By His Own Easy Self-Possession And Wry Charm.
In Little Clubs And Smoky Bars Around The Midwest Armed With His Excellent Debut Record Uphill/Downhill And His Aw-Shucks Charisma Hayward Williams Is Quietly Building Both A Following And A Career The Old-Fashioned Way One Night At A Time. read less
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In 2001 Williams Quit School To Join The Award-Winning Milwaukee Based Band Exit Named Wisconsin Band Of The Year In 2004 By The Wisconsin Area Music Industry. Lending Bass Guitar And Vocals To The Bands' Hook-Driven Pop Catalogue Williams Traveled The Midwest Circuit And Around The Country With Exit Cutting His Teeth As A Performer And Playing Everywhere From The Summerfest Stage In Wisconsin To CBGBs In New York City. The Regional Popularity Of Exit Gave Hayward Entrée Into Larger Clubs Even As He Was Honing The Catalogue Of Songs That Would Propel Him Toward More Intimate Settings.
In 2002 Williams Independently Released Manoverboard A Solo Project Recorded Under A Pseudonym Hayward Is Sneaky Which Allowed Him The Opportunity To Play Solo Engagements Throughout The Region And Served As The Foundation For Uphill /Downhill Hayward Williams's 2005 Debut. A Wilco-Esque Collision Of The Radio And Folk Idioms That Combines Smart Hooks With Deeply Textured Studio Atmospherics Uphill/Downhill Is An Impressive Collection Of 12 Original Songs That Moves Elegantly From Heartbreak To Self-Examination To Wonder Without The Self-Seriousness That Might Ordinarily Drag Such Wanderings Down.
Hayward's Live Shows Have Been Described As Having "...Everything You Could Hope For... Message Melody And Hooks" Vital Source And Feature His Facile Guitar And Thoughtful Distinctive Tenor Imagine The Honeyed Side Of Ryan Adams Jay Farrar's Earthy Grit The Playfulness Of Sam Cooke . Built On A Foundation Of Folk Blues And Soul Hayward's Songs In Performance Display The Raw Intensity Common To These Forms Tempered By His Own Easy Self-Possession And Wry Charm.
In Little Clubs And Smoky Bars Around The Midwest Armed With His Excellent Debut Record Uphill/Downhill And His Aw-Shucks Charisma Hayward Williams Is Quietly Building Both A Following And A Career The Old-Fashioned Way One Night At A Time. read less
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