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KARL S WILLIAMS INTERVIEW WITH VIBEZ IN THE VINES ✦ Karl S Williams is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist, and poet. He is a genre bending, multifaceted musician who loves passionately and wears his heart on his sleeve.
days so I’ll be sharing a lot of those. I Hey Karl, we are so have also been starting to work on a new album so hopefully I can share excited to have you or two new songs, and of course coming to Port Macquarie one some old banjo tunes and spirituals! this October. Can you Tell us a bit about your tell us a little bit about genre bending music and yourself and what to which artists have been expect? your biggest influences? ey Karl, we are so excited
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to have you coming to Port Macquarie this October. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and what to expect? Thank you, I am very excited to come back to Port Macquarie! It has become one of my adopted homes over the years of touring (and Cassegrain Winery is such a beautiful venue). Since I last played there I have released a new album ‘Lifeblood’ and we’ve all been travelling through a strange time. I think the songs on ‘Lifeblood’ were really made for these
I have always loved many different kinds of music, which has created a melange of influences. I think the thing that unifies the music that I love is a certain emotional weight that I call ‘The Blues’. I have been influenced by blues artists such as Blind Willie Johnson and Son House but also I find The Blues in Nina Simone, Leonard Cohen or Jason Molina. I find it in old folk songs, Mahalia Jackson singing gospel, scratchy recordings of spirituals and work songs, Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf…
