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![]() Jess Williamson performing at SXSW 2019 | |
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Origin | Austin, Texas |
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Years active | 2011–present |
Labels | Mexican Summer |
Jess Williamson is an American singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles. [1] [2] She released her EP Medicine Wheel/Death Songs in 2011. Her fifth and most recent album, Time Ain't Accidental was released in 2023.
Williamson was born in the suburbs of Dallas, and began playing music while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. [3] [4] [5] She released her first two albums on her own imprint, Brutal Honest: Native State in 2014, [6] [7] [8] and Heart Song in 2016. [9] [10] Following Williamson's move from Austin to Los Angeles, her third album, Cosmic Wink (2018) was released on the label Mexican Summer. [11] [12]
On February 26, 2020, Williamson announced her fourth studio album, Sorceress , and released its first single, "Wind on Tin". [13] [14] Sorceress was released on May 15, 2020, on Mexican Summer [15] [16] [17] and received general praise, [18] [19] [20] with a positive critic score of 74 on review aggregator sites Metacritic and Album of the Year. [21] [22]
In June 2020, Williamson released the single "Pictures of Flowers" with collaborator Hand Habits. [23] [24] [25] National Public Radio's Ann Powers named it her favorite song of 2020. [26]
In July 2022, Williamson announced Plains, a collaboration project with singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. They released their debut album, I Walked with You a Ways , on October 14, 2022. [27] [28]
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