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James Robert Williamson (born October 29, 1949) is an American guitarist, songwriter, record producer and electronics engineer. He was a member of the iconic proto-punk rock band The Stooges, notably on the influential album Raw Power and in the reformed Stooges from 2009 to 2016.
The elusive and impossibly influential guitarist made Iggy and The Stooges’s world-changing “Raw Power” LP and some of Iggy’s finest solo recordings before disappearing for decades and...
Official website of James Williamson, born October 29, 1949 in Castroville, Texas: American guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known for his contribution to the protopunk rock band Iggy and the Stooges.
Re-Licked is the first solo album by the guitarist, songwriter, record producer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee James Williamson released in October 2014. It features tracks originally performed and demoed between 1973 and 1975 during Williamson's first tenure with Iggy and the Stooges.
Jun 24, 2013 · As lead guitarist for iconic proto-punk band the Stooges in the early 1970s, he helped pioneer a new, rawer music that would heavily influence future legends such as the Sex Pistols' Sid Vicious, Johnny Marr, Kurt Cobain, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello and Tim Commerford.
Nov 17, 2015 · Allow me a brief fanboy moment here: James Williamson, guitarist on one of the most influential records of the last 40 years, bought me tamales. He’s played on many records, but Iggy and the Stooges’ 1973 album Raw Power will forever be the headline in Williamson’s musical career.
May 15, 2015 · Guitarist James Williamson is most famous for his work on the incendiary “Raw Power” album — James, of course, being lead Stooge in Iggy and the Stooges. But he’s also on the latest Stooges album “Ready to Die,” and he is the producer of one of Iggy’s most underrated solo albums “New Values,” from 1979.
