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FIELD HOLLER out from NO ALOHA RECORDS
I-40 PRIMAL SCREAM THERAPY out from BOTTLECAP PRESS
BECAUSE I HAVE TO out from RADIO GURL RECORDS
MF GENIUS EP out from FLAK RECORDS
MARKING & PLATING’S “ZERO VAGUE”
DAILY WORKER’S “BURN IT ALL DOWN (SONGS FOR COREY)”
HAROLD WHIT WILLIAMS: SELECTED POEMS IS AVAILABLE!
daily worker in popmatters!
AUTOFICTION review in Bandcamp
IRISH GOODBYE — KUTX SONG OF THE DAY!
NEW DAILY WORKER single IRISH GOODBYE
A RAIN ANCESTRAL : poems — now available from San Antonio Review Press!
NEW DAILY WORKER ALBUM — MAY DAY — AVAILABLE ON MAY 1, 2022
https://dailyworker.bandcamp.com/
Harold Whit Williams teams up with The Gamble Brothers as GERVIN – your new favorite funk/soul band! CHANCE MUSIC EP now on Bandcamp
NEW DAILY WORKER SINGLE AVAILABLE — MY DRUG
MY DRUG EP OUT NOW!
Harold Whit Williams’ first short story collection is out from San Antonio Review Press.
MEL BAY’S BOOK OF THE DEAD
My Heavens wins the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize!
HOMETOWN HERO – 10 Songs from SHELTER IN TAPES – rerecorded in Majestic Hi-Fidelity
Harold Whit Williams is feverishly 4-tracking and posting quarantined Lo-Fi recordings EXCLUSIVELY ON BANDCAMP – SHELTER IN TAPES – all proceeds going to select charities.
Also, all royalties from the download or stream of MY HEAVENS goes to Color of Change.
bio
Born and raised in musically renowned Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Harold Whit Williams is a prize-winning poet and the longtime guitarist for indie rock band Cotton Mather. A session musician for numerous Austin, TX artists over the years, his lo-fi solo project/band Daily Worker has taken off with multiple albums and accolades received (not to mention his Marmoset Music funk/soul/rock recording project GERVIN feat. superstar brothers Al and Chad Gamble, ambient project The French Riot, no-wave duo MARKING & PLATING, and others). Williams catalogs the KUT Collection for the University of Texas Libraries and writes a quarterly music review for UT’s TexLibris (Whit’s Picks).
poetry and prose
Harold Whit Williams’ literary prizes include the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize from Texas Review Press, and being featured in the 2014 University of North Texas Kraken Reading Series. He is the author of nine books (eight of poetry, one of short stories) a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, and his poems and short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.
His latest poetry collection, Harold Whit Williams: Selected Poems is available from FutureCycle Press. UPDATE! “I-40 Primal Scream Therapy” chapbook is out from Bottlecap Press in 2025.
PURCHASE:
Waiting For The Fire To Go Out
POEMS ONLINE at
boneparade and also here
Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Deep South Magazine and also here
THE GREAT AMERICAN WISE ASS POETRY ANTHOLOGY
(alongside acclaimed poet Andrew Hudgins and grit-lit heavyweight Joe R. Lansdale!)
KENTUCKY REVIEW – 2015 edition
music
HOMETOWN HERO
SHELTER IN TAPES (the quarantined 4-track recordings)
All proceeds go to various charities…
MY HEAVENS – new album from DAILY WORKER…
All royalties go to Color of Change...
THE FRENCH RIOT – Over 3 hours of ambient/electronic musings – free downloads!
shows
DAILY WORKER LIVE IN 2025
MAY 31 HOLE IN THE WALL (w/Andrew Duplantis & The Stayres)
MAR 25 FIREHOUSE LOUNGE (Libraries Rock! event)
MAR 16 BOBO’S SNACK BAR (SXSW duo set)
MAR 13 BATCH ATX (SXSW solo set)
MAR 12 ZILKER BREWING SXSW (Flak Records Nite)
MAR 1 THE ABGB (w/ANDREW DUPLANTIS)
JAN 14 HOLE IN THE WALL (w/ANDREW DUPLANTIS)
DAILY WORKER LIVE IN 2024
AUG 17 BATCH, ATX
JUL 21 HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX
JUL 14 KNOMAD, ATX
JUN 29 ABGB, ATX
APR 6 HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX
MAR 26 PARLOR, ATX (w/ERIC HISAW)
MAR 11 C-BOY’S, ATX (SWOLLEN CIRCUS)
MAR 14 KNOMAD, ATX
MAR 6 HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX (LIBRARIES ROCK)
FEB 24 KNOMAD, ATX
JAN 26 MEANWHILE BREWERY, ATX (W/RITE FLYERS)
JAN 24 CORAL SNAKE, ATX
JAN 18 CAROUSEL LOUNGE, ATX (W/GO-TOS)
JAN 2 HOLE IN THE WALL, ATX (W/A. SINCLAIR)
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