Joy Williams

Recorded, Singles Going Steady, Slideshow

Singles Going Steady: New Singles week Of June 8th, 2015

Iman Lababedi / June 10, 2015

Sweet Love Of Mine – Joy Williams – The third song off her ready to drop newbie, the first two split between winner and loser but this? Wait for it…The best of the three, a simply piece of Americana that gets it quite right, especially the bridge where she uses her falsetto to powerful effect – A-

Live, Slideshow

Joy Williams Of the Civil Wars Releases Song, Readies May Concert

Iman Lababedi / April 30, 2015

“Woman (Oh Mama)”, Joy’s first song off her summer release is a soaring to heights proto-feminist melodic dirge with an African background of chants like Ladysmith Black Mambazo. It is a strange amalgam of sound; not just unlike early Civil Wars, unlike the latterday Civil Wars who were throwing up Portishead (not to mention Michael Jackson) cover versions.

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