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Review: 'RR WILLIAMS'
'Unremarkable Lives'   

-  Label: 'Self Released'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '9th August 2024'

Our Rating:
At nine songs and 35 minutes playing time, this is more of an extended EP than a full length LP but, hey, who’s counting?

R.R. Williams is actually Mike Williams. The name change is a tribute to the memory of his late father Reginald Roy Williams

Mike played bass with John Moreland & The Black Gold Band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Moreland returns the favour by producing and playing on Williams’s debut solo release.

In it we are promised a slice of ”American life from the honest-to-God user end. This involves some solid, albeit unremarkable, heartland rock, a bit of reflective balladry and a hint of country blues.

There’s plenty of familiar stuff about the ups and downs of life including the title track written at a time when he and his wife lost their jobs at the same time.

“I’m a stranger now to the places I hung around” the singer laments in Storefronts and a track about looking back through old Photographs stirs only thoughts of mortality.

There is spirit but not much soul in these songs which are personal but curiously detached at the same time.

Listen to Unremarkable Lives at Bandcamp
  author: Martin Raybould

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RR WILLIAMS - Unremarkable Lives