Jess Williamson – “Time Ain’t Accidental”

Jess Williamson, the Texas-born, Los Angeles-based singer songwriter most recently known for being one half of the acclaimed country duo Plains alongside Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, releases her anticipated new album, Time Ain’t Accidental on Mexican Summer. 

Above everything, sonically and thematically, this album is about Williamson’s voice, crystalline and acrobatic in its range, standing front and center. Just think a union of Linda Ronstadt, The Chick & Emily Lou Harris. Ringing boldly and unobscured, it’s the sound of a woman running into her life and art head-on, unambiguously, and on her own terms for the first time.

The album produced by Brad Cook (who’d produced Plains) fostered a safe environment for the deeply personal material, and Williamson unleashed her voice with total unselfconsciousness.“I kept thinking, ‘my voice feels different now – it’s been liberated,” Williamson reflects.

While Time Ain’t Accidental is remarkable for its bare confidence born of searching and longing for something real, Williamson also recognizes the mysterious whims of time that bricked her path (and she memorialized them on the title track). Ultimately, these unseen forces lured the singer back into her own. The timing was, indeed, no accident.

Williamson is currently on the road in support of Time Ain’t Accidental through June 17th and additionally has announced a late summer tour that kicks off August 18th and wraps on September 3rd. All dates below. Tickets are available now at jesswilliamson.com/tour.

LISTEN TO TIME AIN’T ACCIDENTAL

TOUR DATES:

6/9 – Austin, TX – Continental Club

6/10 – Austin, TX – Continental Club

6/11 – Austin, TX @ Waterloo Records

6/12 – Boulder, CO @ eTown Hall

6/17 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon

8/18 – Santa Fe, NM @ Tumbleroot

8/19 – Colorado Springs, CO @ Lulu’s Downstairs

8/20 – Denver, CO @ Globe Hall

8/22 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge

8/24 – Vancouver, BC @ Wise Hall

8/25 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza

8/26 – Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge

8/28 – Healdsburg, CA @ Little Saint

8/29 – Sacramento, CA @ The Starlet Room

8/31 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel

9/2 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s

9/3 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s

9/24 – Redondo Beach, CA @ BeachLife Ranch