''Don Williams Volume Two'' is the second studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Don Williams. Released in January of

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on the JMI Records label, the album reached number thirteen on the US Country Albums Chart. "

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" was released in 1973 as a single preceding the album, and "We Should Be Together" and "Down the Road I Go" were released as singles in 1974.

Background

Williams was no stranger to the country music scene, having been a member of the Texas band

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from 1964 to 1970. He left the music industry briefly, but returned in

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with his solo debut'',

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.'' Williams had signed with JMI records initially as a songwriter, but later at the encouragement of its founder, Jack Clement, recorded a full-length album produced by songwriter Allen Reynolds.' It was a strong debut'','' reaching number five on the 1973 Country Albums Chart, and it had two top 20 country singles. Six months after the release of his debut album, the formula for success was repeated for ''Don Williams Volume Two,'' including producer Allen Reynolds, and many of the same A-Team Nashville studio musicians, notably steel guitarist Lloyd Green, fiddle player

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and drummer Kenny Malone.

Legacy

This would be Williams' final recording with JMI records, which was sold to ABC- DOT Records shortly after the release of the album. Allen Reynolds would go on to produce and write many successful country songs, including many of

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's biggest hits from the 1970s and 1980s. The song "We Should Be Together," written by Reynolds, would go on to be the title track off of Gayle's 1976 country record.

Track listing

from the original JMI Records release:

Musicians

from the original album liner notes: *Don Williams - lead vocals, guitar *The Joyful Noise - "gentle voices" backing vocals * Bobby Thompson - banjo *Joe Allen - bass guitar * Lloyd Green -

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* Kenny Malone - drums *

, Johnny Gimble, Lisa Silver - fiddle *Bobby Thompson,

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, Jimmy Colvard - guitar *

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- harpoonist harmonica *Chuck Cochran - keyboards *Johnny Gimble - mandolin *Jimmy Colvard - "Boogie beats"

Production

from the original album liner notes: *

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– Allen Reynolds * Engineer – Curt Allen, Garth Fundis, Ronnie Dean * Arranged – Charles Cochran * Photography – John Donegan *Lighting director – Jack Clement

References

{{Authority control Don Williams albums 1974 albums Albums produced by Allen Reynolds ABC Records albums Dot Records albums