You have likely heard this wife and husband duo on the radio show, A Prarie Home Companion, over the years. Always in sweet harmony, they were favorites of the alt-country, alt-gospel-mountain music scene before it was a scene.

Deeper Waters is the first album of duo Robin and Linda Williams on the Red House Records label, released in 2004.

Deeper Waters marks the 30th anniversary as a recording and touring unit for Robin and Linda Williams. They wrote or co-wrote all but one track. Guest vocalists include Iris DeMent, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Schuyler Fisk, and actress Sissy Spacek.

Allmusic states "The Williams have issued what amounts to nothing short of a masterpiece and perhaps their most inspired recorded moment. Deeper Waters is a testament to the stories that are seldom told yet lived in every community, era, and household. This is the place where love, grief, loss, endings, and beginnings are given utterance: to whisper, weep, laugh, and reflect as they move through lives both ghostly and grand."

Personnel

*Linda Williams – vocals, banjo, guitar, background vocals

*Robin Williams – vocals, guitar, background vocals

*Mark Schatz – bass

*Rickie Simpkins – fiddle

*Jim Watson – mandolin, background vocals

*Mike Auldridge – dobro

*Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals

*Iris DeMent – background vocals

*Schuyler Fisk – background vocals

*Sissy Spacek – background vocals

*John Jennings – guitar

*Jimmy Gaudreau – mandolin, mandola

*Kevin McNoldy – bass, background vocals

Production notes

*Produced, mixed and mastered by Kevin McNoldy

*Assistant producers - Robin & Linda Williams

*Engineered by Trip Faulconer, Kevin McNoldy and Matt Jagger

*Art direction and design by Carla Leighton

*Photography by Michael "Mick" Wilson

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Artist/Band Information

Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They began their musical association in Nashville, TN in 1971, performing in local clubs.

The Williamses first appeared on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show in 1976, gaining them national exposure as the show's audience expanded. They also toured and recorded with Keillor's group, the Hopeful Gospel Quartet. In the summer of 1993 they toured with Mary Chapin Carpenter and later sang on Carpenter's Grammy Award-winning album Stones in the Road. Accessed July 5, 2008. Their 1996 album, Sugar for Sugar, spent 11 weeks in the Top 20 of Gavin's Americana Chart. In 2004, they switched labels, recording Deeper Waters as their first release on Red House Records. Accessed July 5, 2008.

They appeared in the film A Prairie Home Companion, and are frequent guests on the radio show of the same name. In their appearance on show number 468 (2008-01-21) of the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour, they discuss the film and program with host Michael Johnathon.

Discography

*Robin & Linda Williams (1975)

*Shenandoah Moon (1977)

*Welcome Table (1978)

*Dixie Highway Sign (1979)

*Harmony (1981)

*Close As We Can Get (1984)

*Nine 'Til Midnight (1985)

*All Broken Hearts Are the Same (1988)

*Rhythm of Love (1990)

*Turn Toward Tomorrow

*Robin & Linda Williams & Their Fine Group Live (1994)

*Good News (1995)

*Sugar for Sugar (1996)

*Devil of a Dream (1998)

*In the Company of Strangers (2000)

*Visions of Love (2002)

*Deeper Waters (2004)

*The First Christmas Gift (2005)

*Radio Songs (2007)

*Buena Vista (2008)

References

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"Underlying their sound are lyrics that pluck at the nerve center of emotional experiences." -- Billboard Magazine

With Deeper Waters, the album that marks their debut on the Minnesota-based Red House label, and their 30th anniversary as a recording and touring unit, the Williams have issued what amounts to nothing short of a masterpiece and perhaps their most inspired recorded moment." -- All Music Guide