Photo by Senor McGuire. Boogie-woogie showman Jason D. Williams is part down-home sage, part outsider artist, and part marketing genius (think Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd). A son of El Dorado, Arkansas, and a local legend in Memphis for decades, he uses phrases like “hot dang,” without irony and can play note-perfect Tchaikovsky, often with a bottle of Heineken balanced on his head. Williams, 51, might also be the biological son of Jerry Lee Lewis. “In Memphis, they’ll fight you if you say that’s not Jerry Lee’s boy. ‘That’s his son. It just is,’” says Todd Snider, the alt-country singer-songwriter and cult hero who produced Killer Instincts in the city’s famed Ardent Studios and Blackbird Studios in Nashville with guests such as ex-Georgia Satellites singer Dan Baird. Williams, blonde and boyish at 51, looks and plays like Lewis. It’s Williams hands you...
- 10/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
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