Bob Williams

Bob Williams is a singer-songwriter from Asheville, NC. The first time he borrowed his sister's guitar, he knew he wanted to write his own songs. For the past 35 years he's been writing and performing music that's often deeply personal and captures a hauntingly southern alternative folk sound. Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bob remembers at an early age performing popular country songs for his parents and grandparents with his sister by his side. He would often visit his grandparents' farm in rural Georgia and spend weekends listening to his grandmother's rich southern storytelling and piano playing. He recorded his first album in 2009 with the band Peach League. In 2011, he released his first solo album, Lonely Colors. He now returns to music after a 14-year hiatus. Produced by Charlie Chastain at Tweed Recording in Athens, GA, Bob's newest solo album, Time Will Tell, features two songs about his father's death in 2024 from cancer. Other songs explore how he copes with relationship challenges, the post pandemic moments of isolation and loneliness, and the destruction that his family witnessed from Hurricane Helene only a few months after his father's death. Bob's new album includes a protest song about North Carolina's "book ban bill" and the song Time Will Tell which he wrote 32 years ago as a freshman in college. His love for the creative process shines in the song Create, a tribute to Bob's late uncle and abstract expressionist artist, John Edward Hudson.