Jonny Williams and Lynnette Marie were both successful solo country singers until they decided to form a duo together in 2009. Since then this husband and wife duo, who were married in 2014, have been much in demand with their traditional style of country music that has earned them a CNN duo of the year award in 2116 and 2019, a female vocalist of the year award for Lynnette in 2017 and 2019 and a CCN for Services to Industry in 2023. Completely different in style to any other duo on the circuit today they have a unique presentation with Lynnette playing a slap bass affectionately called Maybelle, an instrument we see far too infrequently these days and Jonny who plays a classic Gretsch guitar which gives the duo an authentic ‘50s sound.
The band initially got together for a one-off show at Walesby’s Golden Buckle festival in the summer of 2017 and from that performance one thing led to another and the band found themselves on the road heading north to the Broken Spoke festival and the rest is history.
In 2018 their debut album ‘In The Jailhouse Now’ was short listed for a BCMA ‘Album of the Year’ award and the following January saw the band head over to America to record a second album The Sun Sessions at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis Tennessee.
Research by Nick Catford.