The art of Lawrence Williams
Submitted by Casa Valdez Studios
The last few years of Lawrence Williams’ life were fraught with health problems and financial setbacks, but he never let himself get discouraged or depressed by them. Even when he lost his leg and couldn’t play the drums anymore he treated it 
as a minor setback (if that). His reaction was to just compose more music and to start working with pastels. I’ve never met anyone with as much inner strength as Lawrence possessed. He was always highly grateful for everything that he experienced, even things that most people would consider tragedies. To Lawrence, these life struggles were simply opportunities to take stock of his life and to learn to grow as a person. He always had another grand musical project planned, and though these sounded like grandiose fantasies at the time, more often than naught he actually pulled them off.
I hope you appreciate the Lawrence Williams charts that I’ve been posting here. You won’t find this music anywhere else. It’s really amazing stuff.
Here is a video clip of an interview I did with Lawrence in 2002.
Here’s an album of Lawrence’s beautiful pastels that I posted on Flikr.
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