Robin and Linda Williams
Bands / Ensembles
Robin and Linda Williams (1970s–) are a husband and wife folk, bluegrass and acoustic country duo based in Middlebrook, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. They met in 1971 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,developing as a duo at open mics and songwriter workshops in Nashville in 1972 and 1973, and their first album came out in 1975. They began appearing on Garrison Keillor's radio show A Prairie Home Companion in its early years and recorded with Keillor's Hopeful Gospel Quartet. After about fifteen years as a duo, they formed a backing band, Their Fine Group, which included Dobro player Kevin Maul and bassist Jim Watson, formerly of the Red Clay Ramblers. They signed with Sugar Hill Records in 1989. Their songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Tom T. Hall, Kathy Mattea and the Seldom Scene. They played themselves in Robert Altman's 2006 film A Prairie Home Companion. They also wrote a play about Stonewall Jackson that ran for more than twenty years at the Lime Kiln Theater in Lexington, Virginia.
In the newsletter
- No. 10 Winter 1997