The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #116697   Message #509583
Posted By: Rick Fielding
18-Jul-01 - 11:23 AM
Thread Name: Roy Williamson (1936-1990)
Subject: RE: Roy williamson
Hi Joe Clone. "I'm not familiar with his music"....

Get familiar...the guy was an absolute "MONSTER"! Brilliantly innovative (check out the instruments he designed and built, called "Combolins") with a lovely sense of harmonic arrangement. One of the best things about this music is that constant new discoveries await us all. In the late sixties I first heard the Corries, but being somewhat "anti-commercial" I never really checked ALL their stuff out, figuring if they were so popular they wouldn't be that interesting. 10 years later I bought an album, and LOVED it. Yup, their biggest cross to bear was that they sold lots of of records...but they did some wonderful stuff. Try some, you may love it too.

Rick