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 Chet Williamson is a freelance writer who has published nearly 20 books, most of them in the fields of suspense and horror. Among his novels are Ash Wednesday, Soulstorm, Lowland Rider, McKain's Dilemma, Reign, Dreamthorp and The Searchers series. His books have been translated and published in many languages and countries, including France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Japan. His most recent books are Figures in Rain, a collection of his short stories, Pennsylvania Dutch Night Before Christmas, a picture book, and a centennial history of Elizabethtown College.
Nearly a hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, Twilight Zone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and many other magazines and anthologies. He has been a final nominee for the World Fantasy Award and the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award, and a six-time nominee for the Horror Writers Association's Stoker Award.
When he's not writing, Chet can be found either listening to or making music. He plays with Rambles.NET editor Tom Knapp in Fire in the Glen, a Celtic duo, and he loves and collects nearly every kind of music. His long-suffering wife Laurie is good enough to share the house with him and his collection. Their son Colin lives in Tokyo, where he works for Square, developing video games.
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Reviews by Chet include:
Beegie Adair
• Centennial Composers Collection
Agatsuma
• Beyond
Darol Anger
• Diary of a Fiddler
The Darol Anger-Mike Marshall Band
• Jam
Astral Project
• VooDooBop
The Bailey Brothers & the Happy Valley Boys
• Take Me Back to Happy Valley
The Battlefield Band
• Out for the Night
• Time & Tide
Baucom, Bibey & BlueRidge
• Come Along With Me
Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim
• West Side Story
Alan Bibey
• In the Blue Room
Norman Blake
• Old Ties
Ron Block
• Faraway Land
Rory Block
• From the Dust
• I'm Every Woman
Bluegrass Alliance
• Re-Alliance
Chris Botti & Friends
• Night Sessions: Live in Concert
Bob Bovee & Gail Heil
• When the Cactus is in Bloom
Paul Brady
• The Liberty Tapes
Lenny Breau Trio
• Lenny Breau Trio
Alison Brown
• Fair Weather
• Replay
Mason Brown & Chipper Thompson
• Am I Born to Die: An Appalachian Songbook
Robin Bullock
• Between Earth & Sky
R.L. Burnside
• My Black Name A-Ringin'
Sam Bush
• Ice Caps: Peaks of Telluride
• King of My World
Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater
• Reservation Blues
Michael Cleveland
• Flame Keeper
Jeff Coffin & Mu'tet
• Go-Round
Alice Coltrane
• Translinear Light
John Coltrane
• The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings
Brian Conway
• First Through the Gate
John Cowan
• John Cowan
Harry Cox
• What Will Become of England?
The Crooked Jades
• Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait
• The Unfortunate Rake: Vol. 1
Les Daniels & Rick Lee
• Dr. Daniels and Mr. Lee
Hazel Dickens
• By the Sweat of My Brow
• It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song
Double Standard String Band
• self-titled
Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan
• Yonder
Dry Branch Fire Squad
• Hand Hewn
Ronnie Earl
• Healing Time
David "Honeyboy" Edwards
• Don't Mistreat a Fool
Danny Elfman
• Red Dragon
Duke Ellington
• Black, Brown & Beige
• Ellington at Newport 1956 Complete
• Such Sweet Thunder
Tommy Emmanuel
• Endless Road
Fiddlers 4
• self-titled
Ben Freed
• Suite for Bluegrass Banjo
Eugene Friesen
• Arms Around You
Front Range
• Silent Ground
Lonnie Gasperini
• Turn Up the Gas
The Gibson Brothers
• Bona Fide
Grand Slam
• Live at the Regattabar
Corey Harris
• Downhome Sophisticate
John Hartford
• Hamilton Ironworks
Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz
• Good Songs for Hard Times
Aubrey Haynie
• The Bluegrass Fiddle Album
Berline Crary Hickman
• Chambergrass
Hot Rize
• So Long of a Journey
The House Band
• October Song
Jim Hurst & Missy Raines
• Two
Rob Ickes
• Big Time, with Blue Highway
• What It Is
Kazuhiro Inaba
• Teardrop on a Rose
Irishtown Road
• self-titled
Skip James
• I'm So Glad: The Complete 1931 Paramount Recordings
Jim & Jesse
• 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered
Richard Leo Johnson
• Language
Bessie Jones
• Put Your Hand on Your Hip
Jones & Leva
• Vertie's Dream
Kathy Kallick
• My Mother's Voice
Mike Katz
• A Month of Sundays
Geoffrey Keezer
• Sublime: Honoring the Music of Hank Jones
Pat Kilbride
• Nightingale Lane
Alison Krauss & Union Station
• Live
Bruce "Creeper" Kurnow
• Harmonicaland
Sonny Landreth
• Levee Town
Roger Lasley
• Dinner on the Ground
• Duck & Let the Wave Go By
• What Cheer Road
Jim Lauderdale
• Lost in the Lonesome Pines, with Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Stevie Lawrence
• Standing Alone
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
• Gospel Parade
• The Hard Game of Love
• Just Over in Heaven
• Thank God
James Leva
• Memory Theatre
The Lilly Brothers & Don Stover
• On the Radio 1952-1953
Lonesome River Band
• Talkin' to Myself
Johnny Mandel & Gerry Mulligan's Jazz Combo
• I Want to Live
Sherrie Maricle & Diva
• I Believe in You
Mike Marshall & Chris Thile
• Into the Cauldron
Mary McCandless
• Lipstick Legend
• Mary Christmas
Del McCoury
• High Lonesome & Blue
The Del McCoury Band
• The Family
Ronnie McCoury
• Heartbreak Town
Rex McGee
• 24 Creations for Solo Banjo
Tony McManus
• Ceol More
Mark McNeil
• Reporter's Notebook
Joe McPartland
• Songs o' Bonnie Scotland
Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys
• New Horizons
Brad Mehldau
• Elegiac Cycle
Ian Melrose
• A Scottish Legacy
Jim Mills
• My Dixie Home
Bruce Molsky
• Poor Man's Troubles
Bill Monroe
• Live from Mountain Stage
• Live: Volume 1, with the Blue Grass Boys
The Monroe Brothers
• What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul?
Little Brother Montgomery
• No Special Rider
Lynn Morris
• You'll Never Be the Sun
Nashville Bluegrass Band
• Twenty Year Blues
NewGrange
• NewGrange
New Lost City Ramblers
• 40 Years of Concert Performances
Nickel Creek
• self-titled
• This Side
Robert Nighthawk
• Live on Maxwell Street 1964
Mollie O'Brien
• Things I Gave Away
Tim O'Brien
• The Crossing
• Fiddler's Green
• Traveler
Kotaro Oshio
• Dramatic
• Starting Point
Tommy O'Sullivan
• Legacy
Dolly Parton
• Halos & Horns
• Little Sparrow
Phillips, Grier & Flinner
• Looking Back
Dirk Powell
• Hand Me Down
• Songs from the Mountain, with Tom O'Brien & John Herrmann
James Reams & the Barnstormers
• Barnstormin'
The Reese Project
• Blue Etude
Alan Reid & Rob van Sante
• Under the Blue
Harvey Reid
• Guitar Voyages
Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen
• Running Wild
• self-titled
Bonnie Rideout
• Scottish Reflections
Riders in the Sky
• Christmas the Cowboy Way
Tommy Sands
• To Shorten the Winter: An Irish Christmas
Seldom Scene
• Scene It All
George Shuffler & James Alan Shelton
• The Legacy Continues
Kim Sinh
• Music from Vietnam #4: The Artistry of Kim Sinh
Ricky Skaggs
• Ancient Tones
Ron Spears & Within Tradition
• Grandpa Loved the Carolina Mountains
Terry Strongheart Band
• Tears
Subject to Change
• Live at the Landon Gallery
Susquehanna Ensemble
• Conversations: Music by Thomas Reese
Bryan Sutton
• Bluegrass Guitar
Sweetwater Reunion
• Almost Bluegrass
IIIrd Time Out
• Back to the Mac
Tom, Brad & Alice
• We'll Die in the Pig Pen Fighting
Jack Tottle
• The Bluegrass Sound
Tony Trischka Band
• Bend
• New Deal
Tony Trischka, Bill Keith, Bela Fleck
• Fiddle Tunes for Banjo
Uncle Cuckleburr's Champion Possum Carvers
• The Ozark Sheiks
various artists
• Afro-American Folk Music from Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi
• Alan Lomax: Blues Songbook
• Allons en Louisiane
• The Art of Old-Time Mountain Music
• Ballads & Songs of Tradition
• Black British Swing
• Bluegrass Mandolin Extravaganza
• Blues on Blonde on Blonde
• Blues Power: Songs of Eric Clapton
• Box of the Blues
• Carolan's Gift: A Tribute to the Legendary Irish Bard
• Catfish Blues: Mississippi Blues Vol. 3 (1936-1942)
• The Cowboy Tour
• Dancing with the Dead: The Music of Global Death Rites
• Deep River of Song: Alabama/Georgia
• Deep River of Song: Big Brazos
• Deep River of Song: Louisiana
• Gaelic Voices
• Jazz Live from New York
• Keep It Rollin': The Blues Piano Collection
• The Land Where the Blues Began
• Negro Work Songs and Calls
• North American Traditions: The Art of Traditional Fiddle
• Orbitones, Spoon Harps & Bellowphones: Experimental Musical Instruments
• Ozark Folksongs
• Pickin' on Dylan
• The Rough Guide to the Music of the Appalachians
• Safe House
• Six Strings North of the Border, Vol. 2
• Transatlantic Sessions
• The Very Best of Japanese Music
• When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues
• When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 11: Sacred Roots of the Blues
Charlie Waller & the Country Gentlemen
• Songs of the American Spirit
Muddy Waters
• Library of Congress Recordings (1941-1942)/Early Commercial Recordings (1946-1950)
Sean Watkins
• Let It Fall
The Wayfaring Strangers
• Shifting Sands of Time
Kevin Welch
• Beneath My Wheels
Josh White & the Golden Gate Quartet
• Freedom
The Roland White Band
• Jelly on My Tofu
Claude "Fiddler" Williams
• Swingin' the Blues
Gerald Wilson Orchestra
• New York, New Sound
Nancy Wilson
• R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal)
Paul Winter & the Earth Band
• Journey With the Sun
Paul Winter Consort
• Solstice Gems
Hans Zimmer
• The Last Samurai
Richard Crawford
• America's Musical Life: A History
Wayne Erbsen
• Rural Roots of Bluegrass: Songs, Stories & History
Ian Fleming
• Casino Royale
Carol Gnojewski & Davis Bromwell, editors
• Decadence: 300 Years of Japanese Fetish Art
C.P. Lee
• Like the Night (Revisited): Bob Dylan & the Road to the Manchester Free Trade Hall
William Lindsay Gresham & Spain Rodriguez
• Nightmare Alley
Richard A. Lupoff
• The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to Legends of the Book
Alexander Theroux
• The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
Andrew Vachss
• Dead & Gone
• Down Here
• The Getaway Man
• Only Child
• Terminal
• Two Trains Running
Fred von Bernewitz & Grant Geissman
• Tales of Terror: The EC Companion
Robert Weinberg
• Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History
Richard Wilbur
• Collected Poems: 1943-2004
The Complete Crumb Comics: Vol. 5
Krazy & Ignatz: 1933-34, Necromancy by the Blue Bean Bush
Bela Fleck (performance review)
Battlefield Earth
De-Lovely
Red Dragon
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
The Story of Us
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