Whiskey Falls Tour
The Master of the Blues
Despite the claim of having written more than five thousand songs, Dicky Williams recorded works have been somewhat sporadic since
its debut in 1960, but, like London buses, if you wait long enough, two come together. With an album of country-oriented
waiting in the wings and blues project with Ken Massey Group nearing completion, Dicky Williams is ready to be back in a big
way.
Born in Snow Hill, NC North, 6 January 1938 Dicky Williams told The basement of his early years as a singer and
the pianist … I was singing professionally in the Army U.S. but really started singing when I was about six or seven years –
My mother taught me to sing country and western. When I got in the army, I needed some musicians to entertain. I could not play
below, and you really could not sing well, but I raised my hand anyway. And they said: Mr. Williams, you can play and I said yes
sir. I lied! My father played a little piano but he was not an expert and could not play a note. I had a friend of mine named Dalton, from
Chicago. He said he hired him, but you can not play and I said, I know, but you can, so you'll have to teach. So that
He learned to play Blueberry Hill by Fats Domino and then I graduated from "Blue Monday" also by Fats Domino. While I was on tour
Germany – We start Nuremberg – I learned to play Got A Woman by Ray Charles. These three songs that I took all
Europe! Fats Domino and Ray Charles were definitely my influences and Dalton was a good teacher. I tried to go out with a few
things, but that will not let me Wouldn ¹. Still, when I started playing the piano, can only use two fingers – But graduated three!
Dicky laughed as he remembers his acumen to play the piano, but it was enough to inspire you to start writing. Me
learn to play the piano one weekend, that's when I started, and over the years I have written many songs, many more. I have written over
five thousand.
His spell in the U.S. Army on, Dicky Williams settled in Washington DC, where he met producer, Bill Boskent, who looked at
hire a pianist and was not bothered by Dicky ¹ s limited dexterity. Boskent Bill was the manager of Lloyd Price, he advised. I
was about twenty years old, I guess. They were preparing to record Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price. There was beaten for a year or so, so
it needed a new record. Bill said, how would you like to know Lloyd? I said, I'd like to meet Lloyd, as he said, come and
see how we do it. So I said, okay, because it was an interesting experience for me and I went and looked at that and I made a
suggestion. I said, well, people have been doing things a horn, the horn of two things all the time, I think you should horns put more in.
They said, how many, three or four? I said no, let's do something different, I think you should put around ten! Everyone thought
was mad – mad I felt at that time. Everyone thought he was out of my head, but Bill asked if we could do that. He said, wait,
hear what he says. So they listened and said, well, let's see if we can get the Ray Charles band. And they came to Ray Charles
band and got the Raelets to see the bottom. This is how Stagger Lee went that way.
Dicky continued: I was working with Bill as a pianist, that's what took me two to three fingers. I said I can not play their
things. He said, just go and do the best we can. And while I played, sang. He said, he can sing this song and I said, I can sing
I can play better. And he gave me another song to sing and I sang. He said why do not you tell me you were a singer instead
than hanging around doing nothing. I want to produce a record [of you]. The result was a novelty that the track had Boskent wrote,
T entitled Na Na and appeared on Johnny Vincent, Jackson, Mississippi-based label Vin in 1960. On the other hand, what
It makes you think, Dicky said: You know what, I do not even remember that song. I definitely did not write.
Mention has been made in the introductory paragraph the limited version of the product and the career of Dicky poorly documented, digging
the facts have not always been carried out on fertile ground. continue working, dating from 1974 and then under Johnny Vincent
umbrellas – on the label Ace – appeared on the Westside UK 2-CD set, Curiosities, published in 2000 (and reviewed in issue # 19).
Three individual extended the gap, as recalled Dicky when the titles were for him. First, Deception Hill, a statement of Commitment … That
type of wine early '61, I think. That song was me sent from Nashville, but I can not remember the name of the man at this time.
Another single, where True Love began c / w Oh dreamer I appeared in Metro, considered Dicky (Piano) and Williams
Wisermen. That was between 60 and 63, I think, probably closer to 63. The Wisermen were two men who sang with
clovers. They said, you need some background on that song and I said, look good and come with me. And it has other,
a third man named Chester. Dicky has not been able to date a way out, ride the wind, but debuted on the label, Backfire, his own
imprint, which has subsequently revived twice more. I re-recorded that song, because, he said. (She saw the launch
1986.)
Dicky was also devoted to production in the sixties, especially for some five years working in Washington DC with studies
Ruby Johnson, a native of North Carolina colleagues, for their work for V-Tone label and Duncan never NEBS. Ruby was born in Virginia
Beach, he remembered. That ¹ s when I first met and began training her. She worked there in a restaurant at weekends
and she was doing the hair of people in the week days. She could sing well but was afraid to burn. She said, I can not record that
well. I said, I'll show you. I worked with her in everything she did until we got to Memphis and Stax Records and wrote the bulk of
their material well. Never Duncan, died today. Winfield Parker also produced. I produced a record called him
Call Me Mister [Clean] Jac-Ru.
1974, which is again Dicky wax in their own right with two women, a plodder soul dripping organ, guitar and a brass support
Our man tells the story of being divided by his wife and his wife, the two oh-so-good to make a choice is impossible. Ace
I wanted that record, "said Dicky. I do not have the money to make myself and Ace said made everything I needed. I
said, well, this album will probably sell a million copies if you go to the press. So [the head Ace, Johnny Vincent] said, okay, let
I have it, so I let him have it – and the album was a great success. Besides driving cap, you have a Good Thing Goin ' Dicky
three sides fell further under the agreement with Ace: Waiting in line for gas, Holiday Inn and I stand for, but free
were suspended due the age-old difference of opinion between the artist and record company on financial matters. It is not only
Johnny, Johnny was a good guy, Dicky remembered. I really loved him, knew him personally, shook my hand. Johnny not years
only one. I've never paid from no company record. So where possible, provided I have the records for myself. I told my
wife, maybe someone somewhere in the path might be just, but I've never paid. You simply can not blame Johnny.
The spirit I'll Be Standing By what really see the light of day, along with Black Women in the Shirbam label. I did not know that
Dicky said, but if he left would have been around 1978. [The label states 1975.] My problem is the recording of
songs, but I ¹ t have enough money to keep up with them. I can not really blame anyone, because everyone is trying to do
better price and the fastest way they can. And I'm blessed that anything you put my voice seems to sell.
Waiting in the gas line, with sweeteners chain and Holiday Inn, with a strong and support eco-femme (which sounds like
recorded in the bathroom of the hotel!) explored the themes that recur in the work of more than Dicky a decade later, … gas line, in particular,
paint a picture through two ways. Put to him that maybe the lyrics were a bit rude, Dicky said: I think maybe that was
ahead a little time, but not in the sense that, at that time really was a gas line in the U.S.. But no one would accept
that record for what he was saying. When I write I try to keep up with the times. And I've written a song since then called Pain in
Gas Lane, I haven ¹ t released yet, but I think it will be in one of my CDs. Today lyrics are being very explicit, but write
about what I hear people talking and, of course, is what sells. Take my song, Come Back Pussy [lyrically slow chart
blues, issued in the 1989 album of the CMC, in your face, and then to 45], they put out one day and reach out to others. Were
with a concert in Birmingham, Alabama, where I knew that, did not even know you were out. In fact, I had said, do not put out,
wrote that just for fun. They said, OK, but when I went home, the next thing I heard the album was out. Birmingham called me
and said, we want you to come down and perform their new hit. Already I said, hitting? They said: Come Back Damn. I said, how
I was going to pay? They said that if you come here and sing only one song I'll give you 1500 pesos. I
said, I'm on my way!
Dicky Backfire reactivated the label in 1978 and 1986 for disks, Triple Dyn-O-Mite and Red Bata White & Blue Whisky
Lights, respectively. They were recorded in Washington DC, in a study called Rodell in Georgetown, he said. There was also a
single link issued in 1984 Sirco Touching you and trying to do – which was recorded also in Washington DC. Loose
continued: As a matter of fact, I have a new recording at this point that I haven ¹ t release however, gown Red, White and whiskey
Blue Lights and is going to be my country and western album. When I had before, at that time was the only country Y
Western song on that album, but I've done since then – my wife has bothered me so much! – I've gone ahead and me I
over an entire country] [& Western album.
The original 1986 Red Robe ... album includes the song in the same motel, despite been issued the same year in a
Backfire 45 and an album of the same name, it was proposed, according to the label, but not cast. It should be in the Motel
distinction only appear in four stamps in the same costume and in no time. Our man is in room 103 and realizes the
pleasant shouts from the room 104 belong to his lady. (Ah, but what are you doing there in the first place?) A simple but
song, structure-wise, both the bad and labels Golden Thumb - belonged to some gentlemen from Georgia. - Also
promoted as an A-side, while the CMC distributed Ichiban label, along with that back pussy. The
accompanying the CMC albums in your face, are also included Fat Girls, which had been published in a single gold finger and is driven
over midnight by the Band of the Passion, including cousins Dicky, Pye Phil Williams and Williams on guitar and bass respectively -
They are both deceased now. - And Dicky himself on keyboards. (To add to the complications label, the album Red Robe ...
Bad and appeared in Backfire!)
A second album was presented by the CMC - Dicky was unable to communicate only what the letters represented CMC - in 1991. The downtempo
I Want You For Breakfast - quite subtle compared to the the likes of Marvin Sease and Chuck Roberson had arisen by
that time - was chosen as both a 45 and an album (title), while the latter also had stories with more than Dicky in the intense I lost my
Women to a woman and slowly warm letter from a soldier. Hurt You The Wrong Man continued the taste of the global south of
all but unfortunately on this occasion, the Midnight Passion Band were missing and programming was the order of the day, resulting
largely on the effectiveness is lost. Not so, however, with the full album Grown Man, that was some four years later
major Ichiban (Blues) on the label. Very worth the wait, in the way we have the passionate soul ballad, I Live To Love You,
supported the horn, man downtempo Drinking Beer, Fall Out Of Love, with slight country and a sharp blow.
Since then, its output more well rounded, mature man should be aimed to ensure the name of Dicky Williams was there with
the best of them but obviously no Ichiban to release albums as well as I should have. Dicky agreed. Am agree, but they were
financial difficulty and some people were leaving. Same problems as always, I guess.
Undeterred, Dicky again a year later with a new company, where would I be without my wife ...???, The bald eagle, which
among the fifteen subjects, again in the same motel and I Want You For Breakfast and, with the undulating She sounded My Bells
ensure a good bit more tongue in cheek. Bald Eagle, which was my label, he said. That's what that I do. I cut these records and be
are good records and I have to go and make enough money to continue the feeding of my wife, because she is so beautiful
person and she is with me in everything I do. So I have to earn enough to maintain a pleasant place to live and maintain a car in the
unit so go ahead and shut it off. I can do enough to support my expenses for a year or so and then I go and cut a little more and make
the same again.
When not recording, Dicky is always the performer and would be an ideal shoes in some European festivals of blues-soul.
I really would like to return to Europe if they have me, he said. Last time I was there in '96, in Paris at Le Meridien. This is a
great place.
At this time, as well as Western countries and albums, Dicky is busy completing his collaboration with guitarist, Ken Massey,
expected to billed with the title of the salt and pepper, as Dicky Williams and Ken Massey Group. (Massey described the election
Salt and Pepper ... ¹ ³ as a play on the ongoing dialogue - rant! - In the community of black blues blues compared with blue eyes.) [Note:
following this article to the press, Records CDS has decided to empower the release I'm Back Again] That's the blues
because some of my friends and wanted me to do a blues, Dicky advised. This album going to be one of my major
albums. I was introduced to Ken for another great friend of mine, a wonderful young man by the name of Billy Dee. He called me
said, I have a guy I want you to know, who loves the Lord as they do. And I had done my country and western record and
said, so this guy can do anything. It is a great musician, I think you work well together. So I went to him and we
get along like two peas in a pod. I'm pretty sure that we may complete in the next three to four months. We are not taking
and Ken can not run because he does not let you rush. He is so efficient at what he does and wants everything to be fair
right. It's just that way and I am glad he is.
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