Linda Williams
Musician
Best known for
Banjo
Linda Williams is half of Robin & Linda Williams, the Virginia husband-and-wife duo whose harmonies and songwriting have carried acoustic country, folk, and bluegrass to a national audience since the 1970s.
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- Attended high school and college in Michigan, where she took up guitar and banjo, before meeting Robin at her parents’ home in Myrtle Beach in 1971.
- The duo developed its act in Nashville in 1973 and joined Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion orbit from 1975, appearing regularly once the show went national in 1980.
- A member, with Robin, Keillor, and Kate MacKenzie, of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet.
- Guested on banjo on the Steel Wheels’ 2010 album Red Wing.
