What's mine is yours, and what's yours is yours. If you have a happy wife, you've got a happy life. Written with the spirit of John Prine's imagery and play on cliches, Happy Life will relate to anyone attempting to make their significant other happy, failing miserably, and the consequences of when it's unsuccessful. (This is not only specific to heterosexual couples, it can relate to anyone in a relationship)

As I Go Ramblin' Around

Happy Life

Addressing the pitfalls of musical expression and recognition for songwriters and the wrath of the ego if left unchecked, "Writers of Songs" discusses the contempt Williams has for songs that are designed or pressured to fit into "the equation" of success in the music industry. Lacking art, and strictly after the "hit song", "million streams or plays", these songs don't promote the artistic perspective that music originates from, but rather feed into the deceptive and greedy part of the industry.

Writers Of Songs

Set to a time when rambling and gambling were namesakes, and killing a man for cheating or taking your woman was not uncommon, "Eve of Fog" is a murder ballad spun on its head. Vivid imagery takes you to the scene of a man cautiously moving through a forest just before dark, all senses accounted for as he moves in from three miles towards his kill, then two, and then one... before an unexpected visitor arrives on the scene.

Eve Of Fog

'As I Go Ramblin' Around' is a throwback album paying homage to musical heroes of Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt, Woody Guthrie and Elizabeth Cotten. This is my debut under my given name, and my ninth overall - see Whetherman.net for previous work.

Mississippi John

I Suppose When We Stop Breathing

Ramblin Around

Aint It Convenient

Ill Drink To That

Big Rock Candy Mountains

Germantown

Ill Never Know Everything

Living on the road for the better part of the last six years, nomadic storyteller Nicholas Edward Williams blends American folk songwriting with piedmont blues and travis-style fingerpicking, melodic vocals, rolling harmonica, whistling and a stomp box. The variety of his influences is evident in his songs, from Doc Watson to Mississippi John Hurt, and from John Prine to Paul Simon. The end product is a sound that's feel familiar, yet new.

Nicholas Edward Williams

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