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FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY Bill Williams born (February 28, 1897, October 6, 1973). Born in Richmond, Virginia, Bill Williams spent his childhood in the countryside some sixty miles outside the city. His first musical influence was his brother James, from whom Bill learned to play ragtime guitar. By age 14 Billy was working as a waterboy on the railroad in Delaware. After a stint in the mines out west in Colorado, Bill returned east and briefly worked in Bristol, Tennessee. Now in his early twenties, Bill hopped a freight train to Kentucky where he landed a job on the C&O Railroad in Russell on the Ohio River in Greenup County. While Bill continued to travel throughout the region to work, Greenup, Kentucky, became his home for the remainder of his life, over 50 years. For most folks, Bill Williams is an unknown figure, or at best an obscure performer of old country blues, rags, and ballads who was discovered late in life. The commercial work of Williams is scarce, two LPs (one of them pos
