Rusty Williams, grandfather of Paramore's Hayley Williams, will release his lost album 'Grand Man' via Zac Farro's Congrats Records. The 78-year-old recorded the album in the 1970s with his friend and producer Frank Morris. Hayley Williams shared the songs with her grandfather as they were written and described his music as 'cutting to the core of a feeling'. The album will be released for the first time, featuring the single 'Knocking (At Your Door)', a tender tale of lost connection.
Hayley Williams' grandfather Rusty Williams will release his lost album ' Grand Man ' via Zac Farro 's Congrats RecordsThe 78-year-old recorded an album when he was younger with his close friend and producer Frank Morris. He shared the songs with Hayley just as they were written, sitting at his piano or pulling out his guitar.
“So many people our age are mining these albums for tones and things you can’t even replicate,” Hayley shared. “And Grandat has a way of cutting to the core of a feeling, and not overcomplicating it. Which we tend to do, because the world is hard. It’s nice when you can hear something plain and simple and know that it is true.”
will be released via Congrats Records, the Nashville-based indie label founded by Paramore’s Zac Farro. “I thought that it was a crime that these songs were sitting there on the shelf,” Farro shared. It was Morris who uncovered the album after all of this time and Paramore’s Taylor York who took on the mission of digitizing his music. “You write stuff, and you want somebody to get something out of it,” Rusty said.
feels too deep-rooted to be a front. She credits Rusty with pulling back the veil on gospel music for her. He also introduced her to the likes of the Temptations, Elvis, Bread, the Shondells, Kenny Rogers, and Anne Murray — not to mention himself. “Friends or Lovers,” a song Rusty recorded decades ago, was sampled on “Crystal Clear,” a percussive and hazy cut on“I don’t remember a lot of my childhood, but I remember the drums,” Hayley said.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS PARAMORE ZAC FARRO GRAND MAN ALBUM RELEASE
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