Leona Williams

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Hungry Eyes 00:00 Tools
Dallas 00:00 Tools
Many Happy Hangovers to You 00:00 Tools
From Dallas to Nashville With Love 00:00 Tools
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) 00:00 Tools
You Take Me for Granted 00:00 Tools
Okie From Muskogee 00:00 Tools
You'd Be Home By Now 00:00 Tools
Country Girl With Hot Pants On 00:00 Tools
New Patches 03:04 Tools
He's Just On My Mind Again 00:00 Tools
Yes Mam, He Found Me in a Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Don't Leave the Leaving Up to Me 00:00 Tools
I Started Loving You Again 00:00 Tools
Someday When Things Are Good 00:00 Tools
Yearning 00:00 Tools
I Never Go Around Mirrors 04:30 Tools
I've Called to Say I Love You One More Time 00:00 Tools
Three Nickles and A Dime 00:00 Tools
Bottle Let Me Down 00:00 Tools
Workin' Girl Blues 00:00 Tools
Happy Anniversary Baby 00:00 Tools
Country Girl With the Hot Pants On 00:00 Tools
I'm Too Good to Be Better Than Nothing Again 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Darling but Mine 00:00 Tools
Dance Till the Cows Come Home 00:00 Tools
Arms of a Fool 00:00 Tools
It's Not Love 00:00 Tools
I Walked From Dallas 00:00 Tools
I'm Here To Get My Baby Our of Jail 00:00 Tools
Everybody Loves Me But You 00:00 Tools
Don't Sing Me No Songs About Texas 00:00 Tools
Yes Ma'am (He Found Me in a Honky Tonk) 00:00 Tools
I Wonder Where I'll Find You At Tonight 00:00 Tools
Yes Ma'am He Found Me In A Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
If We Make It Through December 00:00 Tools
I Love You Because 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Die (Loving Him) 00:00 Tools
I Can't Tell My Heart That 00:00 Tools
Just Because of You 00:00 Tools
If Anyone Ought To Know 00:00 Tools
Misery 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Supposed to Love You Anymore 00:00 Tools
Before You Loose It All 00:00 Tools
Fighting Side of Me 00:00 Tools
Memories to Burn 00:00 Tools
That Teasin', Squeezin' Man O' Mine 00:00 Tools
Once More 00:00 Tools
I'm Getting Better At Just Getting By These Days 00:00 Tools
I Barely Am Getting By 00:00 Tools
When He Touches Me 00:00 Tools
Ain't That Fine 00:00 Tools
Babe, Just For You 00:00 Tools
Texas Fiddle Song 00:00 Tools
Papa's Medicine Show 00:00 Tools
Prisons Aren't Only For Men 00:00 Tools
I Fall Easy 00:00 Tools
San Quentin 00:00 Tools
If We're Not Back in Love By Monday 00:00 Tools
Your Shoeshine Girl 00:00 Tools
Manhattan, Kansas 00:00 Tools
I Want Some More of This 00:00 Tools
Blue Darlin 00:00 Tools
Things I Almost Had With You 00:00 Tools
A Woman's Man 00:00 Tools
This Ain't a Home No More 00:00 Tools
When I Stop Dreaming 00:00 Tools
Out of Hand 00:00 Tools
You Put Out An Old Flame Last Night 00:00 Tools
Goodbye's Come Hard For Me 00:00 Tools
Watch Her Go 00:00 Tools
I Can't Help It 00:00 Tools
Goodbye Comes Hard For Me 00:00 Tools
Somewhere in Colorado 00:00 Tools
Country Music In My Soul 00:00 Tools
For God and Country 00:00 Tools
Ten Minutes Till Heartaches 00:00 Tools
Somewhere Inside 00:00 Tools
He's Just You Made Over 00:00 Tools
It's Tearing This Old Heart Out Of Me 00:00 Tools
I Spent a Week There Last Night 00:00 Tools
Ole George 00:00 Tools
Single Mom 00:00 Tools
After I Sing All My Songs 00:00 Tools
The Old Place is Gone 00:00 Tools
Workin Girl Blues 00:00 Tools
Since I'm Not With the One I Love (I'll Love the One I'm With) 00:00 Tools
They'll Never Take His Love From Me 00:00 Tools
Struttin' Blues 00:00 Tools
A Gentleman On My Mind 00:00 Tools
Struttin Blues 00:00 Tools
Anything Goes 00:00 Tools
Yes Ma'm, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Yes Mam This One Can 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe 00:00 Tools
The Circle Of Friends 00:00 Tools
A Woman's Life is More Than Just a Man 00:00 Tools
Broadminded 00:00 Tools
Yes Ma'am 00:00 Tools
That Teasin', Squeezin' Man O' Mine - Leona Williams 00:00 Tools
Stone Cold Country Red 00:00 Tools
Leona Williams - Struttin Blues 00:00 Tools
I Just Wanted You to Be Proud of Me 00:00 Tools
I Narrowed This Triangle (Down To Two) 00:00 Tools
Before You Lose It All 00:00 Tools
How Great Thou Art 00:00 Tools
Three Nickels And A Dime 00:00 Tools
Tom Lucas 00:00 Tools
Yes Mam He Found Me In A Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Medley Everybody's Had The Blues / Trying Not To Love You / Someday 00:00 Tools
Baby, We're Really In Love 00:00 Tools
Sugar Blues 00:00 Tools
Guitar Pickin' Song 00:00 Tools
Anything Goes (Til' Everything's Gone) 00:00 Tools
Babe Just for You 00:00 Tools
My First Night Away From Home 00:00 Tools
You're Tearing This Ole Heart of Me 00:00 Tools
It's Tearing This Ole Heart Right Out Of Me 00:00 Tools
If I'd Only Listened To Mama And Dad 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Gonna Think About You 00:00 Tools
You Weren't There 00:00 Tools
Cruel Daddy Blues 00:00 Tools
Melted Down Memories 00:00 Tools
I've Called To Say I Love You (One More Time) 00:00 Tools
Medley Everybody's Had the Blues/trying Not to Love You/someday 00:00 Tools
Uncle Bud (Bugle Blues) 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
I Narrowed This Triangle Down To Two 00:00 Tools
Where The Soul Of Man Never Di 00:00 Tools
I Barely Am Gettin' By 00:00 Tools
Medley: Everybody's Had The Bl 00:00 Tools
I Wonder Where I'll Find You Tonight 00:00 Tools
So Goes My World 00:00 Tools
Blue Darlin' 00:00 Tools
Nobody's Darlin' But Mine 00:00 Tools
I'm Gettin' Better These Days By Just Gettin' By These Days 00:00 Tools
You Sure Make Cheatin' Seem Easy 00:00 Tools
If We're Not Back In Love By M 00:00 Tools
Rockin' Rollin' Stoned 00:00 Tools
It Makes No Difference Now 00:00 Tools
Goodbyes Come Hard For Me 00:00 Tools
Window Up Above 00:00 Tools
Fightin' Side Of Me 00:00 Tools
Cotton Eyed Joe 00:00 Tools
Yes, Ma'm (He Found Me In A Honky Tonk) 00:00 Tools
Listen Spot 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate 00:00 Tools
Happy Anniversary, Baby 00:00 Tools
Yes Ma'am, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk 00:00 Tools
Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee 00:00 Tools
I'm Almost Ready 00:00 Tools
Nothing Between Us But Love 00:00 Tools
Just Like A Prayer 00:00 Tools
Tom Lucus 00:00 Tools
The Boys And Lucy Brown 00:00 Tools
The Telephone Line 00:00 Tools
Call Me Crazy Lady 00:00 Tools
We Agree That We Must Be In Love 00:00 Tools
Shape Up Or Ship Out 00:00 Tools
Bright Morning Light 00:00 Tools
Aberdeen 00:00 Tools
Touch And Go 00:00 Tools
The Meanest Man in the World (Milady's Blues) 00:00 Tools
Stone Cold Country Red (feat. Leona Williams) 00:00 Tools
Broad Minded 00:00 Tools
I Dropped Your Name 00:00 Tools
Mama, I've Got To Go To Memphis 00:00 Tools
North Alabama 00:00 Tools
He Took Care Of Me 00:00 Tools
Midnight Blue 00:00 Tools
A Lifetime To Forget 00:00 Tools
Cheese Cake And Apple Pie 00:00 Tools
I Can't Break The Habit 00:00 Tools
There's More Love in the Arms You'll Be Leavin' 00:00 Tools
We've Had Some Good Times 03:37 Tools
Mexican Blues 00:00 Tools
Anything Goes (Til Everything's Gone) 00:00 Tools
Love and Honor 00:00 Tools
If You Don't Believe I Love You, Look What A Fool I've Been 00:00 Tools
Divorce On The Rocks 00:00 Tools
Baby We're Really In Love 00:00 Tools
My Heart Has Finally Said Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Midnight Love 00:00 Tools
For All I Know 00:00 Tools
Any Port In A Storm 00:00 Tools
The Baby Song 00:00 Tools
Why Be A Dreamer 00:00 Tools
You Don't Love Me Like You Mean It 00:00 Tools
Somewhere in side 00:00 Tools
That Lonely Unloved Wife Look 00:00 Tools
Hey I'm Somebody (Not Just a Body) 00:00 Tools
Decatur Street Blues 00:00 Tools
If Your Man Is Like My Man 00:00 Tools
I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail 00:00 Tools
Bring It With You When You Come 00:00 Tools
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There are at least two artists with this name: 1) Leona Williams was an early jazz artist who recorded with "Her Dixie Band" from 1922-27. Her best-known recordings include "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" and "Cruel Daddy Blues." In 1997, Document Records released her complete recorded works, on a compilation with the complete works of Edna Winston. 2) Leona Williams was destined to become a Country Music Entertainer. She landed her first radio show at the age of 15. The program "Leona Sings" in Jefferson City, Missouri, was the beginning of a lifetime of entertaining people. That journey would take her all over the world and allow her to sing before thousand and thousand of Country Music fans all over the world. Leona moved to Nashville from a small town in Missouri called Vienna in the 1960’s. With a lot of hard work, she was soon recording for several major record labels including Hickory Records, RCA, Polygram and MCA with such hits as “Once More” “Yes Ma'am, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk” “Country Girl With Hot Pants On” and “Broadminded.” Leona was also traveling worldwide and opening shows for some of country music's top entertainers and making personal appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Leona played upright bass and sang harmony for Loretta Lynn. During this time, she and Lynn became close friends and traveled throughout the country with each other. Loretta recorded Leona's composition "Get What You Got and Go." Leona later teamed up with Merle Haggard for a top ten duet called “The Bull and the Beaver” and a duet album followed called HEART TO HEART. Leona and Merle married in 1978. During this time, she would write some of Merle’s biggest hits including “You Take Me For Granted” and “Someday When Things Are Good.” You can hear her harmony vocals on some of Merle's hits such as “The Way I Am” “The Roots Of My Raising” and “Big City.” Merle and Leona were divorced in 1984. Leona married songwriter Dave Kirby and moved back to Vienna, Missouri. She continued to work the road and released three successful independent projects on her own Loveshine label. Leona made frequent guest appearances on Nashville Now and various other syndicated Country Music programs. She also headlined a daily Country Music show at the Texas Troubadour Theater in Nashville with Johnny Russell. In 1999, Country Music legend Jean Shepard persuaded Leona to become part of the “Grand Ladies of Country Music” show at the 76 Music Mall Theater in Branson. Leona worked three years on this show and then moved to the Jim Stafford Theater as part of “Us Girls.” She then headlined the “Fall Creek Opry Show” in Branson, while still being a constant draw in concerts across the nation. She even worked with "The Rajun Cajun" Doug Kershaw in Branson in the 2004 season. Leona also headlined a very successful tour of Ireland, playing to some of the most receptive audiences of her career in October of 2004. She received six encores on her last night in Ireland with fans lining up for over an hour to meet and get her autograph. During the last few years, Leona has enjoyed recording duets with several in the Country Music industry including George Jones, Jimmy Martin, Floyd Tillman, Justin Trevino, Johnny Bush and Joe Paul Nichols among others. Leona, a Missouri native, was inducted into the Country Music Association of Texas Hall of Fame in 1999. She was also honored with the prestigious George D. Hay Award in 2002. She was most recently inducted into the Missouri Country Music Hall of Fame. Leona's songs have been recorded by many artists including Tammy Wynette, Randy Travis, Moe Bandy, Ray Price, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Bush, George Jones, Forester Sisters, Connie Smith and Merle Haggard. Leona signed with Heart of Texas Records in 2004, and began preparing her first new album in nearly a decade. “I always wanted to go to Texas and record an album with a lot of the real Texas Country Music sound,” Leona said. “I wanted an album with lots of steel guitar and great fiddle. This is the sound that I wanted to capture and I truly believe that is what we did.” “Leona Williams-Honorary Texan” is the first all new Leona country album in over ten years. The project, recorded at Justin Trevino studio in San Marcos, incorporates Leona’s powerful voice with some of the best musicians in Texas including Bobby Flores on fiddle, Ron Huckabee on keyboard, Dave Kirby on guitar, Dickie Overby on steel, Justin Trevino on bass, Smiley Reynolds on drums and Levi Mullen on rhythm guitar. The fourteen songs on the project include three standards from Leona’s career including “Yes Mam, He Found Me In A Honky Tonk” “Goodbyes Come Hard For Me” and “You’d Be Home By Now.” “Honorary Texan” is highlighted by six songs unrecorded until this project including “Dance Till The Cows Come Home” “Don’t Leave The Leaving Up to Me” “I’ve Called To Say I Love You (One More Time)” “Don’t Sing Me No Songs About Texas” “Things I Almost Had With You” and “I Walked From Dallas.” “I actually wrote “Don’t Sing Me No Songs About Texas” in the late 1970’s,” Leona said. “I had written several songs about Texas. Ernest Tubb was looking for some songs to record for a new album. Ernest sent word to me to send him some songs. He said ‘tell Leona to send me some songs, but tell her not to send me no songs about Texas.’ I thought that was a great idea for a song!” Leona added five of her favorite Country Music standards including “Arms of A Fool” “I Never Go Around Mirrors” “Memories To Burn” “Nobody’s Darlin But Mine” and “Misery.” “We are so honored that Leona was willing to record this album on Heart of Texas Records,” label president Tracy Pitcox said. “We have been overwhelmed with the positive response with the project from disc jockeys and record reviewers throughout the country. The album is definitely not the “cookie cutter” country album that is being mass produced from Nashville studios. This project has tremendous depth and feeling.” Heart of Texas Records also reissued Leona's album "San Quentin's First Lady" in 2005. This project recorded live at San Quentin State Prison on January 1, 1976, features Leona performing ten songs with Merle Haggard's Strangers live before a prison audience. "San Quentin's First Lady" was the very first album ever recorded by a lady inside a prison. It is also the first time this project was made available on compact disc. Leona went back into the studio in February 2005, to begin work on a new studio album. It was also recorded at Justin Trevino's studio in San Marcos, Texas. Heart of Texas released "I Love You Because" in 2005, and it has received rave reviews. The album features nine songs that Leona wrote or co-wrote and Country Music entertainer Junior Brown even played guitar on the project. Leona's greatest treasures are her family. She is especially proud of her daughter Cathy Lee and her sons Ron and Brady Williams. Cathy works in a Hendersonville bank and still sings harmony with her mother from time to time. Ron is living in Nashville and pursuing a full time career as a Country Music entertainer. Brady is a very successful finance manager for a large auto company in Ozark, Missouri. Whether in a recording studio, dance or concert hall or on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, Leona Williams always gives her very best to her fans and her music. She definitely presents a special class to the world of Country Music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.