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Ronnie Williams

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Hometown	Larksville, PA
Genres	Contemporary/Soft Rock, Alt. Rock
Band Members	Ronnie Williams
Achievements	» more
Upcoming Shows	None

Contact Information:	Artist / Band Member Ronnie Williams Ronwilliams27@msn.com 570.406.7354
# Years Experience Performing Live:	20
# Live Perfomances Past Six-months:	113
Market Draw:	Johnson City, TN: 251-300; Little Rock, AK: 201-250; Tallahassee, FL: 251-300; Philadelphia, PA: 251-300; Binghamton, NY: 201-250; Wilkes Barre/Scranton: 800+
Venue History:	Kirby Center - Wilkes Barre, Pa Club LaVela - Panama City Beach, Fl The Swamp - Ft Walton Beach, FL Grand Ole Opry House - Nashville, TN Sloppy Joes - Key West, Fl The Stone Pony - Asbury Park, NJ Toyaota Pavilion - Montage Mt, Pa Arleneas Grocery - New York, NY Phoenix Hill Tavern - Louisville, KY Sammy T's Music Hall - Huntsville, AL
Opener Experience:	Bad Company; 38 Special; Poison; Def Leppard; Foghat; Skid Row; Pat Bennetar; Eddie Money; Little River Band; Rick Derringer; Mark Farner; Warrant; Zebra; Sammy Hagar
Similar Artists:	Bon Jovi; Daughtry; Goo Goo Dolls; Lifehouse; 3 Doors Down; Rob Thomas
Performing Rights Society:	ASCAP
Discography:	For What It's Worth EP—2010; Rise Phoenix Rise - Land of Oohs & Ahhs LP—2008; Christmas Without You Single—2008

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Williams first picked up a red-hot cheap electric six-string guitar in northeast Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley (home of Scranton, PA and the hit TV show The Office), at thirteen and never looked back. He cut his teeth on Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet...

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"SUBWAY FRESH ARTISTS™" (NY, NJ, PA) Winner, September 2010

Reached 53rd in Best of Rock chart in 2011. In the top 100 for 3 weeks.

Reached 67th in Best of Rock chart in 2011. In the top 100 for 2 weeks.

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Ronnie Williams flies solo by Alan K. Stout - Music Columnist
When listening to “For What It’s Worth,” the new EP from Ronnie Williams, you can almost picture a bird flying from its cage, soaring high, free in spirit. It’s the very first solo effort from a man who’s spent most of his life playing music, and the he admits it marks both the end of a journey, yet also the beginning. “It feels weird, because I’ve always wanted to do it,” says Williams. “I had a bunch of songs written when I was a kid, and I never did anything with them. But timing is everything, and while I was going through my stages of writing, I really didn’t have everything I needed to be a songwriter. I needed to experience life a little bit.” Though still only in his mid-30s, Williams has had a steady presence on the NEPA music scene for nearly two decades. He started playing bass and singing professionally when he was 16, and at age 22, he performed at the legendary Grand Ole Opry. Locally, he’s played with bands such as Midnight Rain, Kartune, Flaxy Morgan and Bad Hair Day, with whom he still performs. In 2008 and 2009, he also toured most of the nation with the group Rise Phoenix Rise. “We did 340 shows, in 16 months, in 40 states,” says Williams, adding that creative differences led to him leaving the band. “I just wanted to start doing my solo thing and writing songs that I wanted to write. My sound is different. I think it has similarities to other artists, but I don’t think there’s anything else out there that sounds like it.” His self-analysis is accurate. There’s a sense of familiarity to “For What It’s Worth” — which also features the work of guitarist Pat Flynn and drummer John Young — yet it’s also unique. Williams comes from a musical family. His father raised him on Johnny Cash records, his parents once performed as a duo, and his bothers are musicians who introduced him to bands such as Boston, Styx and Triumph. Combine that with his own biggest influence, Bon Jovi, and add in some Goo Goo Dolls, Lifehouse, John Mayer and Allman Brothers Band, and perhaps it shouldn’t come as surprise that his music, especially in 2010, has a bit of a different vibe. “With Bon Jovi, I always liked that New Jersey-style of writing — the storytellers,” says Williams. “Springsteen, stuff like that — I’ve always liked the whole idea of telling a story and not just throwing a bunch of words together to try and make sense of something. And I like to feel that I capture that part of my influences in my songs. When I asked Pat Flynn to play guitar on the CD, I knew he had a lot of Journey influence, and I wanted some of that, too, so that I could create a different sound by putting some of my favorite artists together.” The new EP was recorded at JL Studios in Wyoming. Tracks include “As Long As I’m Here,” “Be With You,” “Better Off” and “Christmas Without You.” The songs can be heard on Williams’ MySpace and Facebook pages. Williams says that when the songs were recently submitted to Web site www.numberonemusic.com, he had nearly 2,000 hits in less than 24 hours and received positive feedback from new fans in Germany, Mexico, Canada and British Columbia, Canada. At one point, he had the top six songs on the Pennsylvania chart. Williams, who has a daughter, 6, and a son, 13, says his children have also served as an inspiration. “They’re the ones that make me do what I do,” he says. “I could have just given up and just played in local bands my whole life, and I probably could have been satisfied and made a decent living doing it, but I just want to give them more. In October of last year, I woke up one day and said, ‘Everything smells different. Everything tastes different.’ My life just felt different. I needed to do something. I quit playing for an entire month. I just wanted to get my thoughts together and really focus on doing this. I dropped 30 pounds in six weeks, and I wrote my album. I wrote probably 40 songs.” Williams will hold a CD-release party on Friday at Jad’s Place in Pittston Twp. and will share the bill with five acts. For his performance, he will be backed by Iron Cowboy. As for what’s next, the new journey will continue. “I’m still working on the full album, which I’m going to release in October,” he says. “I just wanted to get this EP out so that I had a product for people to hear and see the response I get. A lot of people, through the years, have told me I should do something solo. Now, I hope that people that always said that to me can listen to it and say, ‘It’s exactly what we were waiting for.

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SOLO PERFORMANCE:
1 Direct box for acoustic
1 microphone

FULL BAND:
7 drum lines
2 guitar lines including 1 direct box
2 keyboard lines
1 bass line
4 vocal lines

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