Cam Williams: Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica and flute. Jeff D: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, lap steel, guitar pedals
Influences
Ponderosas, ponderosas from your car on windy days when you have motown blowing out your cheap-o chrystler stereo mysterious deaths and secret burials, rowboats, clairvoiancy, farming, Mexico, radio, bodies of water.
The Rock. That's the nick name the locals have given to San Juan Island. A small community near the notical border of British Columbia and Washington State populated by a unique community of many personalities and tiny sub-cultures. This is where the seeds that became Yearling Graham were planted.
Singer/songwriter Cam Williams and instrumentalist/producer Jeff Diffner, both grew up in the laid back/working class atmosphere the permeated the island's only town of Friday Harbor. While they both had similar interests and traveled in the same circles, born three and half years apart (to the day), there was just distance between the two, that they were little more than acquaintances.
Like so many children of small towns, Williams and Diffner each relocated upon graduating high school. Diffner moved to Seattle, attended the University of Washington and the Art Institute, became a behind the scenes fixture in the local concert industry and spent summers touring the country as a drum tech. Williams moved to New York to attend university, played coffee houses and open mics, and saw her adopted home come through its darkest day. After backpacking through Mexico and traveling across the mid-west, Williams found herself in Seattle.
A chance meeting through a mutual friend, a day spent on an urban hike, and a conversation that turned to music - that's all it took. A prolific songwriter with dozens of songs, and a schizophrenic guitar player with a dozen guitars, their first practice birthed the front porch jam Lady and the atmospheric Six Step Swing. Three years of hard work, hugs and fights, tears and makeups, Yearling Graham are proud to present their debut record; Union County. Ten songs that pull the listener in to Williams' unique songwriting blend of first-person fiction, heart breaking tales of lost loves, and vivid imagery of her beloved home in the Pacific Northwest.
Now available at these fine Seattle record stores: Sonic Boom and Silver Platters. Or on-line at Digstation.com, CDbaby.com, and iTunes.
camidy camidy cam. it was so so good running into you and alex. what is your life like these days? do you have room to spend time with me? :) i love you!
Hi darling! I wish I had been with you to ring in 2007. Or rather, I wish you had been with me because we had a karaoke machine and were dancing up a storm. Come east soon.
Hello beautiful girl.....I'm sorry i missed your real b-day..so here it comes late..HAPPY BIRTHDAY.I love you funky chica and think your beautiful.michelle and i are sitting here listening to your beautiful voice. nice job...BELT IT OUT BABY..HEHE See you sat...p.s troys coming
