Robin Williams
Musician
Best known for
Guitar
Robin Williams is half of Robin & Linda Williams, the Virginia husband-and-wife duo whose warm harmonies and acoustic songwriting carried bluegrass, folk, and country to a national audience across more than four decades.
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- Grew up in North and South Carolina and was already performing solo when he met Linda at her parents’ home in Myrtle Beach in 1971.
- The duo worked Nashville open mics and songwriters’ workshops in 1973, then in 1975 — at Peter Ostroushko’s suggestion — phoned Garrison Keillor, beginning a decades-long association with A Prairie Home Companion.
- Appeared on the show up to a dozen times a year after it went national in 1980, and sang with Keillor and Kate MacKenzie in the Hopeful Gospel Quartet.
- Tours and records with Linda and Their Fine Group; the duo had its greatest commercial success in the 1990s.
- Guested on guitar on the Steel Wheels’ 2010 album Red Wing.
