Mel Williams

Williams began performing music as a teenager in the late 1970s. “My first job was singing table-to-table at Doc Pierce’s,” he says.  “(Owner) Bruce Tassell hired me and he probably doesn’t even remember that it was me. I was 17 years-old. I got dinner and $40."

From there, he started a band called Destiny with his brother and later formed the band Force of Habit, which released the album “Love Lag” in 1986.  "We were played on the radio, but we had no record deals or anything,” Williams says. “We were a typical ‘80s hair band. Our best song was our ballad, but we didn’t do many of those.”

Williams gave up performing in the 1990s to raise a family but got back into it in 2006 with the band Last Call while also managing the music career of his daughter, Bailey.

Williams started Memberz Only, an ‘80s tribute band in 2010, and joined Acoustic Justice around the same time.  Williams released his first solo album, “Perfect Song,” in 2015.

-Tom Conway, SB Tribune

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