Album Notes

Robert Steven Williams writes fiction by day, songs by night.

I Am Not My Job is Robert's first CD and features Rachel Z, the keyboard player from Peter Gabriel's touring band, as well as Sloan Wainwright on background harmonies. The actor, Kier Dullea, provides voiceovers on two songs -- Kier was Captain Bowman in Stanley Kubrik's 2001.

Many of these tracks have companion short stories. Two have already been published and posted on web sites. To learn more visit Robert's web site where hundreds visit each week to read his essays:

www.rswmusic.com
www.myspace.com/robertstevenwilliams

A twenty-year music industry veteran, Robert has attended workshops with such established writers as Rosanne Cash, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Steve Seskin, David Wilcox, Rivers Rutherford and Chuck Cannon. Robert's work has appeared in such magazines as Billboard, Poets & Writers.


Awards and Recognition

April 2007 -- 'Jersey Cowboy' featured nationally on NPR's Car Talk

May 2006 -- 'Chaparone' published in Orange Coast Review

May 2005 -- Raymond Carver Short Story Top-Ten Placement for 'The Jersey Cowboy'

April 2005 - Raymond Carver Short Story Finalist for 'The Jersey Cowboy,' 'Inheritance,' and 'A Winter's Day'

October 2004 -- Emerging Writer Hidden Talent Contest Honorable Mention for 'Coming Home'

August 2004 -- Squaw Valley Writers Community Thayer Scholarship recipient

Summer 2003 -- New Century Writer quarter finalist for the novel 'Sound of Money'