Miami….
NewYork…Atlanta….London…Seattle…Nashville….
Born in Miami, and raised in small town Eureka, Florida, Williams has roamed far and wide, with enough life experiences to fill ten life times.
Throughout many adventures, always creating….
New York City, 1972, Williams wrote songs with Richie Havens (Woodstock),and toured the UK through ’74.
Atlanta, 1975, while working as a chef, Jack encountered a tour-jacket wearing entourage, proclaiming “I’m a songwriter, and I want to meet
THE WHO.” That proclamation led him on a whirlwind tour through Chicago to Boston where he signed his first publishing deal with Roger Daltrey
& Pete Townshend’s William Tell Music. After two years learning from
Daltrey & Townshend, Williams was summoned to the UK by Ken Hensley of Uriah Heep, and signed the Ken’s ‘UmbleMusic.
Upon relocating to the UK, Uriah Heep recorded four of Williams’ compositions.
1981 brought the next era of Jack’s musical adventure. He moved to Sarasota, Florida, the hot-bed of the southern rock movement. While fronting his own band, “Streets of Ice”, Williams was having his songs recorded by Molly Hatchet (“Keep On Ridin”) and Blackfoot(“Send Me An Angel”).
It was during this era that Dickey Betts (Allman Brothers) encouraged Jack to make the move to Nashville.
In 1987, when Jack hit the Music City, he was signed by publishing great
Noel Fox to Silverline/Goldline Music. He promptly had his songs recorded by the Oak Ridge Boys (“Seasons”,“Everybody Wins”) and Gregg Allman
(“Just Before The Bullets Fly”, also featured in the movie Renegades).
In the mid 90s, Nashville’s country boom began to fade and Jack pursued the love of a different art form, the culinary arts.
Williams acquired formal training in Escoffier cooking, which he still maintains his “Chef” status today. This pursuit led Jack aboard many vessels at sea, cooking aboard merchant marine ships,research vessels and aboard even earned a Medal of Bravery from President George W. Bush for performing on a ship hauling war supplies to Iraq during the Gulf War.
Back in Nashville, Jack cooked for stars (Willie Nelson, Montgomery Gentry, Martina McBride, Keith Urban), while cooking up tunes for The Little River Band, Lance Miller, Adam Brand, The Adam Eckersley Band, Kristina Cornell, Stephanie Urbina Jones, TommySteele, Borrowed Blue, Josh Pruno and others.
In June, 2015, Jack Williams signed with Lynn Gann Music Enterprises’
Songs of LGME!/Garrisongs 1-4-5/ASCAP, for an exclusive publishing contract. This new team has “BACK ON A DIRT ROAD” on
Montgomery Gentry’s new FOLKS LIKE US LP(Blaster Records), as well as “HEAVEN’S SO FAR AWAY” on Kevin Costner & Modern West
Recently,Canadian artist Aaron Pritchett recorded one of Jacks songs called “Dirt Road in Em' and it has reached #9 on the Canadian radiosingles charts so far.