“With her bittersweet melodies and pop-minded songcraft, she has already developed a style both inviting enough to appeal beyond genre borders, and inventive enough to raise the bar in instrumental guitar music.”

“The US player’s second album Urban Driftwood, released earlier this year, takes a ‘knock you down with a feather’ approach to acoustic playing.”

“The folk lane that Yasmin Williams occupies—solo acoustic guitar—is often overlooked in accounts of sexism and racism in roots music, but it too has been dominated by white men for the last half-century. With the compositions on her January album Urban Driftwood, and the ways she performed and talked about them, Williams breezily intervened in those narrow notions of musical lineage.”

"We're treated like athletes who are supposed to just push through pain to make people feel entertained," Williams says. "But talking about pain shows that you're real."

William Tyler and Yasmin Williams joined us for an intimate live performance at 3Sirens in Nashville, TN as we brought back the Luck Mansion Sessions.

“Some people need to sit down with an instructor and be forced to learn the fundamentals,” says Williams. “For other people, like me, exploration starts right at the beginning. Otherwise, why bother playing?”

“Watching the “Sunshowers” video simultaneously feels as if you’re taking in a Williams show from the front row and accompanying her on an afternoon hike. Needless to say, it’s lovely.” - Paste Magazine