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Artist
R.G. Williamson
4+ albums
classic rockrockhard rockalternative rockguitar rock
about
The great grandchild of Swedish and Irish immigrants, Richard Gunnard Williamson was born in 1967 in the historic fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts made famous by the movie The Perfect Storm. He is the third of four children. Although raised in a modestly poor household his parents always found ways to entertain friends and family during holidays and special occasions. Music was always a central part of that entertainment. and as a result he was constantly exposed to a wide variety of musical styles and genres that would ultimately influence his own songwriting in later years. Gifted with drawing at the young age of five he would focus his school years majoring in art studies with the hopes of becoming a Commercial Artist. At the age of eight he began to learn to play the accordion with the help of his father who also played the instrument intermediately, this did not capture his attention for very long. By the age of fourteen he began listening to a newer style of music that was becoming more prominent in the early 1980s. Heavy metal became the dominating factor that would direct him to play the guitar. On his seventeenth birthday he received his first electric guitar and amplifier that he had asked for. This would be the beginning of his musical journey into musicianship. After graduating High School in 1985 he began working in local factories in order to afford to buy a secondhand automobile and the musical equipment that he desired. His aspirations of attending
