Ive been a professional touring guitarist, composer and singer/songwriter for the last 13 years. My aim id keeping the rich traditions of American music alive by blending folk and piedmont blues picking with soulful vocal melodies, bucolic prose, rolling harmonica and a stomp box. Ive opened for critically acclaimed acts Taj Mahal and The Wood Brothers, released nine full-length albums and have over a decade of high-mileage touring throughout the US, UK, Europe, and Australia. Aside from my own material, I play a laundry list of classic folk covers from the 60's and 70's, old folk traditional as well as old blues songs.
We held a Christmas event for our clients in downtown Chattanooga, and Nicholas was the highlight of the evening. He is not only extremely talented but also well-engaged with the audience. He even got a chuckle out of us when a loud train passed by, as he played a song about freight trains immediately afterwards. Can't recommend highly enough.
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Price Range: $200 - $500
Gig Length: 30 - 180 minutes
Languages: English
I'm able to adapt to the circumstance. I have upbeat folk and soul dance-ables, downtempo classics and songs that are beautiful and relatively unknown, background music, and listening environments. I have over 500 songs at my disposal, and I've never played a show in the last 5 years where people attending didn't walk away feeling a connection to the songs and the music.
Nicholas Edward Williams, formerly known as Whetherman, is a seasoned guitarist, composer and singer/songwriter keeping the rich traditions of American music alive by blending folk and piedmont blues picking with soulful vocal melodies, bucolic prose, rolling harmonica and a stomp box. At 34 years old, Williams has amounted a wealth of a career opening for critically acclaimed acts Taj Mahal and The Wood Brothers, releasing eight full-length albums and having over a decade of high-mileage touring throughout the US and Europe.
I have my own sound equipment that I travel with and set up, that fits most indoor and outdoor spaces.
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| January 12, 2019 • 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Green Turtle (Fernandina Beach, FL) |
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| December 08, 2018 • 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Green Turtle (Fernandina Beach, FL) |
| December 07, 2018 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Fox's Lair (Augusta, GA) |
| December 01, 2018 • 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Ecusta Brewing (Brevard, NC) |
| November 18, 2018 • 12:00pm - 3:00pm | 1885 (Chattanooga, TN) |
| November 11, 2018 • 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Green Turtle (Fernandina Beach, FL) |
| November 10, 2018 • 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Green Turtle (Fernandina Beach, FL) |
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Jolene (G)
Blues run the game
Into the mystic
*Georgia on my mind!
*Summer Wind
Blackbird
*CC Rider
Green Rocky Road (4)
*Father and Son
*Homeward bound (3)
*To be Young (2)
*Operator
Summertime (2)
Yesterday
Rock Island Line (3)
*Boots of Spanish leather (3)
Canned Heat Blues
*Goin down this road feeling bad
Oh my sweet Carolina (2, D)
These Days
*Midnight special
*Like rock and roll and radio (2, A)
*Fare thee well (2)
*Kind hearted woman blues
Wildwood flower
Lift him up (1)
Rocks salt and nails
Wayfaring stranger
*Kathy’s Song
Freight train
Teach Your Children Well
*Comes a Time
*Back in Time - slow piedmont!
Sitting on top of the world (5)
#2
New York city’s Killin me
Rambling Around
SpikeDriver blues
The last thing on my mind (3)
*Don’t think twice
*Gone to Carolina (2)
*I got a woman - F, C7, B
St James Infirmary (5)
*Lodi (2)
*Glory of Love (2)
Up above my head
Trouble in Mind
*Big Rock Candy Mountains (D)
*Hard Times
*Wind cries Mary (5) *
*Angel from Montgomery
Make me a pallet
*tears in heaven
*All my life (2) *
*Peaceful easy feeling (2)
*Hey hey
*Take it easy
*Fire and rain (3)
Ohio
*Five feet seven
*Buckets of Rain (3 - stomp)
*Miss Ohio (4)
*Deep River Blues
Little Martha // Pay Day
You are my sunshine (2, D - stomp)
*The gardener (1)
*In spite of ourselves (3)
#3
*it ain’t me babe
*Wild world *
Wish I was a mole In the ground
*Pirate looks at 40 (2)
*Folsom Prison Blues (2) *
Coming into Los angles
I shall be released*
*Whiter shade of pale
*Blowing in the wind
*The boxer
*In your eyes
Corrina
*And it stoned me
*country roads take me home (2)
If I had a Hammer
redemption song
Windy and warm / House of Rising Sun
*Mary Janes last dance
no woman no cry
Heart of Gold
*Fire on the mountain (3)
Old Man
*Use Me
Goin to California
me and Julio
diamonds on the souls of her shoes
The weight
*Piano man
Hallelujah
The Circle
Writers of Songs (2, D)
Hard Times (C)
Ramblin Around (7)
SpikeDriver Blues
Young River (4)
What am I suppose to think
*windy and warm || Oval room
Wildwood Flower (1)
Mariposa
Too many mirrors
Rocks salt and nails (2)
Happy Life - it takes a lifetime
Lift him up (1)
Shaving Cream
*You’re not your khakis
Oval Room (4)
All the wild horses
Morning Blues
Silver Dagger - don’t sing love songs
Rocks salt and nails (2, D)
Wayfaring Stranger
Little Martha / James Alley Blues
Everything is free (5)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (2, whistle)
Lazy Old Moon (1)
Clay pigeons (6)
Lift him up
Pay Day (3)
Hang Me
*Walk-in Boss (4)
I wish I was a mole in the ground
#1
Young River
You’re not your khakis
Too Many Mirrors
What am I supposed to think?
Happy Life - it takes a lifetime!
The Circle
The Orchard
Simple Lives
Six Rivers
What am I supposed to think?
Writers of Songs
Sea Line
I shaped a home
Ghosts in the Water
Man of Conviction
Mariposa
Strawberry Blonde (2, A)
The Hold Up
Eve Of Fog and Silence
Why pretend
Ain’t it convenient
Sundial sunset
Ma and Pa
Summer Blooms
Strawberry blonde
In the know
Train station stop blues
Tides
In the melody
Penny Street
Weathered mind
Black bean song
Eve Of Fog and Silence
Alrance, France
Current of the Sea
Like a wick in the sun
Sun and Penelope (C)
Friends You Won't Be Losing
Paul Simon, Neil Young, Van Morrison, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan
Speakers
Microphone
Stands
Cables
Mixing Amp
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