Work My Claim

Marking 30 years as a touring and recording musician, Brooks Williams offers up a collection of nine re-recorded, all-acoustic tracks drawn from his extensive catalogue of original songs, plus three reimagined covers. A native of Statesboro, Georgia, from where legendary folk-blues troubadour Blind Willie McTell also hailed, Brooks has been based out of Cambridge, England, for a number of years. Longtime fans will appreciate the fresh interpretations of his signature tunes including ‘Inland Sailor’, ‘Seven Sisters’, ‘Jump That Train’ and ‘Whatever it Takes’. Newbies and others will recognise the special creativity in the transformation of Dave Alvin's ‘King of California’, Doc Watson's ‘You Don't Know My Mind’ and the Duke Ellington classic, ‘I Got it Bad (and That Ain't Good)’.

Accompanied by John McCusker (Mark Knopfler, McCusker McGoldrick and Doyle), Christine Collister (Richard Thompson, Daphne's Flight), Jim Henry (Eliza Gilkyson, Tracy Grammer), Ralf Grottian (The Bluescats), Aaron Catlow (Yola Carter, Sheelanagig, Hawes & Catlow) and Phil Richardson (Claypath), Williams demonstrates command of the material and the kind of ensemble leadership that only comes with a few thousand gigs notched into one's guitar strap.