Robin Williamson - Just Like The River And Other Songs With Guitar (Reissue) (2016)

Robin Duncan Harry Williamson - Born 24 November 1943 (Edinburgh, UK)

ROBIN WILLIAMSON is a Scottish musician, author and historian who grew up in the Edinburgh area and is best known as founder of the legendary THE INCREDIBLE STRING BAND along with CLIVE PALMER (C.O.B., FAMOUS JUG BAND) and MIKE HERON (HERON, MIKE HERON'S INCREDIBLE ACOUSTIC BAND).

Williamson began his musical career while still a teenager who both roomed and routed with BERT JANSCH before forming ISB. Signed almost immediately by Elektra's transplanted American talent scout and producer JOE BOYD, ISB behind Williamson's direction and voluminous songwriting established themselves as the fathers of what would eventually become known as acid folk, their substantial discography forming the influential basis for both contemporaries and at least two generations of folk-rock musicians who would follow them.

While still a member of ISB, Williamson recorded the first solo album in what would eventually expand to a discography of more than forty studio, live and video releases.

Following the disbanding of the Incredible String Band Williamson formed a touring and recording troupe known as THE MERRY BAND, made up of friends, acquaintances and follow folk enthusiasts. They would record three albums in less than two years before changes in public tastes and Williamson?s interests led to his striking out once again on his own.

Over the years Williamson would record with several icons of folk music including old friends Clive Palmer, Mike Heron, JOHN RENBOURN and longtime partner BINA WILLIAMSON. He has also released a number of folk and music-oriented texts, prints, paintings and instructional books, and formed his own label (Pig's Whisker).

Williamson reunited with Palmer and Heron as ISB for several years in the mid-90s, but by 2003 was once again performing solo along with his wife Bina.

Robin Williamson has continued to perform and record well into the 21st century. His substantial discography and written works, as well as his established status as patriarch of folk-rock and traditional folk music, along with two Grammy nominations, cement his place in the annals of progressive folk.