How old is country singer don williams

To help keep your account secure, please log-in again. You are no longer onsite at your organization. Please log in. For assistance, contact your corporate administrator. Arrow Created with Sketch. Calendar Created with Sketch. Path Created with Sketch. Williams was to top the country singles charts in the US a further 16 times over the next 12 years. Williams first visited Britain in at the invitation of the impresario Mervyn Conn , who promoted the Wembley festival.

In the event, partly owing to the BBC showing highlights of the Wembley festival, Williams was a great success, both with a hardcore country audience and a wider public. More than a dozen of his albums reached the UK charts, the most successful being Images, which peaked at No 2 in He made his final British tour in As fashions in country music changed, Williams toured less and spent more time with his family at his ranch near Nashville.

But he was held in high esteem by many younger musicians. On his final albums, So It Goes and Reflections , issued by Sugar Hill, he was accompanied by artists including the singer Vince Gill and the fiddler and singer Alison Krauss. The title was a reference to his nickname, the Gentle Giant.

Like Reeves before him, Williams appealed to listeners on several continents. September 9. It seemed that the country music industry and its losses are becoming an unfortunate and continuous list as it lost another gem and gentle soul, Don Williams who died of a brief illness, emphysema at his home in Mobile, Alabama.

On his Facebook page, the team of Don Williams confirmed the news of the unfortunate passing of the Country Hall of Famer:. Rest well Gentle Giant. Last , Don Williams was an inducted member of the Country Music Hall of Fame after proving his wide array of influence as supported by different but alike country stars who have covered most of his songs including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, Alan Jackson, Kenny Rogers and many more.

In his interview with British Country Music International in , Don Williams explained how his style took its own direction while maintaining his identity as a country singer:. Then, when Bill Haley, Little Richard and all that started happening, I think a lot of us made a transition then without realizing it.