"A rising incarnation of Shimmer is Yasmin Williams, a young guitarist from Virginia currently turning heads as one of the freshest voices on the old wire-and-wood to come along in a while."
Thank you Rob Rushin-Knopf for the shimmering feature on Yasmin Williams on Salvation South!
“Williams, 25, is one of the country’s most imaginative young solo guitarists. Released in January, her second album, Urban Driftwood, represents a clear break with the form’s stoic, folk-rooted mores." -Grayson Haver Currin, The New York Times
Read More“Above all, ‘Urban Driftwood’ is her challenge to widespread preconceptions about the music made by young Black people or acoustic guitarists. It’s Williams’s achievement that she makes that challenge sound so calming and beautiful." -John Lingan, Washington Post
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