Rachel Williams - First Day of the Truth

Rachel Williams likes her country music with a generous helping of Motor City-bred, rock-tinged rhythm and blues. The Michigan-born singer has the pipes to carry tunes that straddle the genre-bending territory between southern-fried melodies with a hint of twang and chugging, bottom-heavy B-3, bass and drums.

November 2004 saw the release of Williams' sizzling debut, First Day of the Truth, on Regaltone Records. On the Bobby Terry/Bekka Bramlett-penned barnburner, As Far As You Know, a sultry soul swagger erupts into a fire-breathing declaration of fighting words. Music Row magazine's Larry Wayne Clark says the song 'finds Williams channeling her 'inner Aretha' in a way that would make that soul empress grin approvingly.' William's whispers then soars on the album's anthemic title track, and dances nimbly through punchy melodic hooks on the one-foot-out-the-door tune What If I'm Gone. The album boasts Williams' first Nashville co-write, the blues-inflected Welcome To Love, written with Kim Copeland and Bill Edwards.

Track Listing :

• So Good For So Long
• Rebel Bride
• The First Day Of The Truth
• There's Love
• As Far As You Know
• Broke Down
• That Was Me
• Somethin' I Never Thought I'd Say
• What If I'm Gone
• Welcome To Love
• On The Leaving Side
• Goin' Through Hell

Find out more at Rachel Williams' website