While Williams is known best as a songwriter for other people, over his career he has also managed to record four great blues-rock albums of his own-records that are sought by collectors but hardly anyone else. And this summer he flew to Toronto to help guitarist Jeff Healey finish an album. King, and fellow Texan Roy Orbison (who, he says, “used to come to my place in Malibu to smoke cigarettes and write songs”). There are also snapshots of Jerry hanging out with some of the musical pals he has made over the years, including luminaries like Keith Richards and Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones, ex-Beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison, B.
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The evidence of Williams’ success lines the walls of his in-home studio near Tulsa: There are the gold and platinum records that his work has appeared on, including Clapton’s Unplugged, Behind the Sun, and Crossroads Raitt’s Nick of Time the Vaughan brothers’ Family Style the soundtrack to the movie Wayne’s World Houstonian Clint Black’s The Hard Way and Robert Plant’s Now and Zen. After more than two decades of writing tunes for and with some of the best-known musicians around, the 48-year-old has earned the nickname the Song Doctor, the man to call when you’re working on an album and all that’s missing is a catchy song. And Williams co-wrote Stevie Ray and Jimmy Vaughan’s “Tick Tock,” the song played at Stevie Ray’s funeral. King’s “Standing on the Edge of Love.” Bonnie Raitt’s “Real Man” was his too, as was “Wanna Make Love to You,” by Johnny Hallyday, the French Elvis.
He also penned Delbert McClinton’s signature song, “Givin’ It Up for Your Love,” and B. Eric Clapton’s “Running on Faith”? Williams wrote it. MAYBE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD of Jerry Lynn Williams, but if you’ve been near a radio in the past twenty years, you’ve almost definitely heard his music.
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