"His voice is as wide as a prairie sky, vast as the shimmering wheat. It is colour and light, sorrow and mourning and hope. It’s a rumble in the belly that reaches deep. It’s a voice you won’t forget." After twenty-five years of performing, Phil Williams embarks on another journey with the release his much anticipated debut CD All That Matters. Augmented only by his Grit Laskin, perfectly punctuated by the thoughtful guitar work of Francis Xavier Edwards and the tender violin of Jennie Bice, William’s voice, immediate and compelling, makes the disc. His originals are fresh yet resonate with tradition. Covers of icons Stan Rogers and Gordon Lightfoot he has made his own through timbre, cadence and phrasing. Music surrounded him while growing up. His father, a “Welsh tenor”, listened to CBC radio constantly, while his mother and older brother practiced on the baby grand. Phil never got past lesson two. His gestalt happened years later ...