Posted on 11/16/2016 5:38:24 PM PST by EveningStar
Mentor Williams, a longtime Taos resident and nationally known singer-songwriter, died at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday (Nov. 16), according to a family source.
Williams was best known for writing "Drift Away", a middle-of-the-road playlist classic performed by Dobie Gray in 1973. He is the brother of songwriter-actor Paul Williams, according to an online biography.
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I always loved that song. My oldest (when he was younger) thought the lyrics were “give me the meatballs that feed my soul”
Now I know who to blame for the song. :)
Was this guy married to Lynn Anderson?
I love that song. Uncle Kracker did a really nice version of it.
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I used to love that song, back when I was, was 13?!?
Awwwww...I sat on a beach in Key West while in the Navy with my girlfriend listening to this, 18 years old.
I wonder how she is tonight.
Partner, not husband.
RIP.
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