Linda Williams
Linda Williams (née Hill) is a singer, guitarist, and banjo player from Michigan. She is half of the duo Robin & Linda Williams with her husband, singer and songwriter Robin Williams. She was working as a schoolteacher in 1971 when she met him while visiting her parents in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The couple married in 1973 and began performing together that year. They recorded their first three albums for a small label in Minneapolis, starting with Robin & Linda Williams in 1975, the year they first appeared on A Prairie Home Companion. They played the show for 41 years, at times appearing on as many as 20 broadcasts a year. They also sang with Garrison Keillor and Kate MacKenzie in the Hopeful Gospel Quartet and played themselves in Robert Altman's 2006 film A Prairie Home Companion. They toured with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1993 and sang on her album Stones in the Road, which won a Grammy Award. Their songs have been recorded by Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kathy Mattea, Tom T. Hall, Tim and Mollie O'Brien, the Seldom Scene, and Mary Black. The duo lives in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, near Staunton. For nine years they and Jimmy Fortune hosted the Fortune-Williams Music Festival in Staunton each September.
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- No. 1 September 1994