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 John Williamson was a musician and editor of //The Grape Vine// underground Christian 'zine.
+"John grew up listening to Gilbert and Sullivan because that was the LP that had a cartoon on it. His Mom, a concert pianist, filled the house with Schubert and Chopin. She taught piano lessons but was never very enthusiastic about teaching the kids, so John never learned how to play the piano.
+John's father bore the distinction of being the only non-music major in the University of Alabama marching band. He played tuba and once distinguished himself on national television by marching the wrong way during the halftime show (or was the rest of the band marching the wrong way?).
+Being a lifelong Episcopalian, John has been influenced by the hymns. His main regret is that he has never attended a church which sung them the way Al Green must do in Memphis.
+John's first musical experience was singing with a group of children who wore green t-shirts and yellow painter pants. Hey, it was the 1970's!
+In school, John took up the trumpet and played in marching band and jazz band for about ten years. He retired his trumpet after an altercation with a big mallet from a drummer he had "accidentally" mocked.
+Forays into keyboard monotony and playing bass in several bands ensued. He even got cocky and purchased a fretless bass.
+But when his college roommate, [[David Finley]], decided to teach a free guitar class for his ministry credit, John was intrigued. John loved the idea of learning new chords and would reinforce or remember them by writing songs. He loved the melodic opportunities that guitar afforded. Soon he was singing his songs in local coffee houses and writing new songs everyday. That was around 1988.
+Ten years later, John continues to perform and enjoys playing with different ensembles or unaccompanied. He appreciates melody and writes with poetic charm. His singing and songs have been hailed from around the globe and he is constantly touring, writing and recording. He is currently touring to support his first CD, //Songs From the Crescent Vale//, which features [[Robert Deeble]] and was produced by Daniel McCoy."
 ===== Discography =====
 | 1990 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/gunshots-at-950-gunshots-at-950/|Gunshots at 9:50]] |
-| 1992 | Do I Dare to Eat a Peach? | [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
+| 1992 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2025/03/31/john-r-williamson-do-i-dare-to-eat-a-peach/|Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?]] | [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
 | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2019/09/07/john-r-williamson-canvas-of-blue/|Canvas of Blue]] | [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
 | 1993 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/03/13/john-r-williamson-make-a-songwriter-happy/|Make a Songwriter Happy]] | [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
 | 199? | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/john-r-williamson-sketches/|Sketches]] | [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
-| 1997 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/john-r-williamson-purple-door/|Purple Blanket]] | [[Liberation Music]] / [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
+| 1997 | [[https://christiantapeunderground.wordpress.com/2020/08/16/john-r-williamson-purple-blanket/|Purple Blanket]] | [[Liberation Music]] / [[Sonic Hope Records]] |
+| 1999 | Songs From Crescent Vale |
+| 2000 | Salt |
+| 2004 | Maybe in a Shade You Don't Know |
+| 2006 | Portable Shrine |
+| 2013 | Nimbus |
+| 2013 | Cloverleaf |
+| 2021 | The Stones Are Singing |
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 [[Sonic Hope Records]]
+John R. Williamson – Vocals, guitars, bass, drums, percussion, trumpet parts
+[[Robert Deeble]] - Vocals and snare on "The Writer's Convention," vocals and handclaps "Day Drawn Sky," vocals on "I'm Aging Again" and "The Glimpse"\\
+[[Chad Bryant Edmundson]] - Vocals on "Floodgate," "Bradbury Bay," "The Glimpse," and "Rosehips"\\
+[[David Finley]] - Vocals on "Floodgate" and "Patience 'til You Come"\\
+[[Mandy Horak]] - Vocals and mandolin on "The Green Stick" and "The Glimpse;" vocals on "Accidental Underdose," "Peor and Solveig," "Somethingness," "Rosehips," "Wrinkles," and "Where the Song Begins"
+  - Lights
+  - Ballad of the Man in Past Present
+  - The Writer's Convention
+  - Accidental Underdose
+  - Roar
+  - I'm Aging Again
+  - Mistah Clark
+  - Floodgate
+  - Peor and Solveig
+  - (Smile Sweet Sunday)
+  - Mr. Toad
+  - The Green Stick
+  - Zany Like a Curse
+  - Bradbury Bay
+  - Somethingness
+  - Gethsemane
+  - Bright - Not Gaudy
+  - Deluge
+  - The Glimpse
+  - Small Wonder
+  - Somehow I'm Aware
+  - Cambodia's Mines
+  - Rosehips
+  - Charity and Light
+  - Patience 'til You Come
+  - Wrinkles
+  - Day Drawn Sky
+  - Where the Song Begins
+  - Love
+  - Ah Sunflower
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 John R. Williamson – Vocals, guitars, other instruments?
-Chad Edmunson – Vocals on “Where Did the Doctor Go?”\\
+[[Chad Bryant Edmundson]] – Vocals on “Where Did the Doctor Go?”\\
 [[David Finley]] – Vocals on “Where Did the Doctor Go?”\\
 [[Eric Paulsen]] – Strumming and croaking on “A Humdrum Conundrum,” boost guitar on “Chess With Death”\\
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   - Landing in a Family
   - Testimony in the Mother Tongue
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+==== Make a Songwriter Happy ====
+[[Sonic Hope Records]]
+John R. Williamson – Vocals, guitars, other instruments?
+  - Where They Meet
+  - The Observant Scout
+  - 14 Adjustments
+  - Trying to Love Clayton Ides
+  - The Breadth of My Will
+  - Hot Jazz
+  - Exodus Revisited
+  - Friends
+  - From Russia With Love
+  - The Ballad of Funnycuzi
+  - The Death of the Rough Rider
+  - Hart Overboard
+  - Thanks a Lot
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 Korby Paulsen – Guitar\\
 Eric Patton – Drums\\
-Mandy Horak – Singing
+[[Mandy Horak]] – Singing
   - Reckoning
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   - Hold on to Your Hat
   - I'm a Pyre for You
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+==== Songs From Crescent Vale ====
+Independent
+  - Lines of Demarcation
+  - Special Thing
+  - Mine
+  - Offerings
+  - Daynobe
+  - A Miracle
+  - Big Ol' Car
+  - Mississippi
+  - Close to It
+  - All Saints' Day
+  - Steady, Gone and True
+  - When His Book Get Better
+  - Naked
+  - Bizzare Bedroom Bells
+  - Shalom
+  - Execution Blues
+  - Hidden Track
+------
+==== Salt ====
+Independent
+  - Houston (3:33)
+  - It's Enough (2:53)
+  - Pan Pacific (2:41)
+  - Just Another Truckstop (2:00)
+  - More Than the Day Before (3:01)
+  - The Ayes Have It (3:20)
+  - Potato (1:29)
+  - Smile (3:41)
+  - A Song for the Body (2:53)
+  - Hold on to Your Hat (3:36)
+  - Too Much Nothing on Our Minds (3:50)
+  - The Sun Without the Shade (3:23)
+  - Raise Me Like a Purple Tuesday (1:37)
+  - Trapper Dick (2:41)
+  - Planning (3:01)
+  - Spitfire (3:02)
+  - Snapdragon Surprise (2:56)
+------
+//(...to be continued...)//
+------
+==== Compilation Appearances ====
+**//[[Puddlegum - Kids Like Us Volume 1]]//** (1999 Puddlegum Communications)\\
+) I Forgot
+"One day John was listening to a story that [[Chad Bryant Edmundson]] was telling about how Chad's junior high school students were borrowing his stapler before class to tighten up their jeans so that they could meet the 'no baggy pants' dress code. It turns out that staples are what holds the world together. This is John's ode to staples. Who would know?"
+John R. Williamson - Singing, parlor guitar\\
+The Milkman - Percussion, electric guitar\\
+Trevor King - Left-handed electric bass\\
+Daniel McCoy - Machinery, production
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