Jack Williams with Stacia Thiel
Jack Williams comes to us from a rock background. It shows in the drive of his guitar work, which is clean, exciting, and endlessly full of beautiful and appropriate licks. His songwriting has an unprepossessing understated poetry to it, kind of like a South Carolina version of an acoustic Bruce Springsteen with Jerry Garcia on acoustic lead guitar. And if he holds true to form, catch his astonishing finale of a 15-minute free-association medley of every song from every genre ever written, and never the same as previously.
Americana singer-songwriter Stacia Thiel captivates audiences with a voice that is powerful and achingly beautiful; her songwriting revelatory and impassioned. As a formally-trained opera singer, she was born into a musical family in rural Wisconsin, and raised on an eclectic mix of styles, from her family’s barbershop quartet, to old-time country and ’60s folk. She has been performing and writing songs since childhood. Stacia was selected as one of John Platt’s emerging artists. Her album Straight to the Middle entered the Top 20 of the Roots Americana Chart, and her single Sunny Days entered the Top 10