Williams are a husband-and-wife
singer-songwriter
folk music
duo from
Virginia
. They met in
South Carolina
in 1971,
[1]
[2]
and began performing in 1973.
[3]
The Williamses appeared on
Garrison Keillor
's
A Prairie Home Companion
radio show from 1975.
[4]
The duo were members of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Keillor and Kate MacKenzie.
[1]
[5]
After touring with
Mary Chapin Carpenter
in 1993,
[6]
the pair later sang on her
Grammy Award
-winning album
Stones in the Road
.
[7]
Sugar for Sugar
spent 11 weeks in the top 20 of the
Americana
Chart in the
Gavin Report
in 1996.[
citation needed
] In 2004, they switched labels, recording
Deeper Waters
as their first release on
Red House Records
.
[8]
The Williamses appeared in the film
A Prairie H