This is the first solo album by Jerry Lynn Williams, backed by Nicky Hopkins, Nils Lofgren, Cornell Dupree, Chuck Rainey and Bernard Purdie. Obituary by Joe Nick Patoski in No Depression magazine: Jerry Lynn Williams was the best songwriter you’ve never heard of. Though he stayed under the radar as far as the public was concerned, musicians and composers knew the Texas cat as the song doctor. Williams, who passed away November 25 at age 57 on the island of St. Maarten from liver and kidney failure, wrote hits for Eric Clapton (”Running On Faith”, “Pretending”, “Anything For Your Love”, “No Alibis”, and “Breaking Point” — all on Clapton’s Journeyman album), Bonnie Raitt (”Real Man” and “I Will Not Be Denied” were on Raitt’s Grammy-winning Nick Of Time), Jimmie & Stevie Vaughan (he helped write “Tick Tock”), Delbert McClinton (”Givin’ It Up For Your Love” and “Sending Me Angels”), B.B. King (”Standing On The Edge Of Love”), and Clint Black (”The Hard Way”), among others.Raised in Fort Worth singing gospel, he came of age at the Skyliner Nightclub, where, as a teenager, he booked acts including Jimmy Reed, Ike & Tina Turner, and Ray Charles. He left Texas for the west coast with Little Richard’s band; out there, he understudied with a black guitarist known as Jimmy James who later became famous as Jimi Hendrix. Williams headed up a small mafia of like-minded music people from Fort Worth and elsewhere in Texas including McClinton, Glen Clark and Stephen Bruton. He cut a colorf