The great grandchild of Swedish and Irish immigrants, Richard Gunnard Williamson was born in 1967 in the historic fishing port of Gloucester, Massachusetts made famous by the movie The Perfect Storm. He is the third of four children. Although raised in a modestly poor household his parents always found ways to entertain friends and family during holidays and special occasions. Music was always a central part of that entertainment. and as a result he was constantly exposed to a wide variety of musical styles and genres that would ultimately influence his own songwriting in later years.

Gifted with drawing at the young age of five he would focus his school years majoring in art studies with the hopes of becoming a Commercial Artist. At the age of eight he began to learn to play the accordion with the help of his father who also played the instrument intermediately, this did not capture his attention for very long. By the age of fourteen he began listening to a newer style of music that was becoming more prominent in the early 1980s. Heavy metal became the dominating factor that would direct him to play the guitar. On his seventeenth birthday he received his first electric guitar and amplifier that he had asked for. This would be the beginning of his musical journey into musicianship.

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After graduating High School in 1985 he began working in local factories in order to afford to buy a secondhand automobile and the musical equipment that he desired. His aspirations of attending Art School fell by the wayside as his love of music became a more prominent part of his life. He invested some of his pay into taking guitar lessons for three months, after which he began to self-teach himself the instrument. In 1990 he married at the young age of twenty-three. He and his wife recently celebrated 31 years of marriage together on October 2021. He was never one to starve for his art and always tried to put his responsibilities first. Being raised poor weighed heavy on his choices and with the music industry being anything but guaranteed for a musician, he chose a more solid path of steady factory work and placed his dreams on the back burner. This did not dissuade him from having musical ambitions but it did however, inhibit his ability to reach his goals at an earlier point in his life.

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 Through the constant balancing of life's priorities music always remained at the forefront of his life and in the early 1990s he began writing and recording instrumental songs on a 4-track recorder that a friend had given him. He took to it quickly and began learning the basics of the art of recording and producing music. In 1995 he would have his first experience of recording original music in a professional studio as the lead guitarist and co-songwriter of the short-lived experimental death metal band “Severed Spine”, a project that he formed with now independent horror film director/producer Ron Decaro.

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Upon leaving Severed Spine in the summer of 1996 he was asked to join another group of local musicians that were forming as an original alt-rock band that eventually became "Imbalance". In December of 2002 the band released an independent self-produced album titled "Category: Rock" on which he performs lead and rhythm guitars along with background vocals. This would also be his first experience in producing and engineering music on a digital scale using a computer. The internet also came into play as it was quickly making it possible to connect independent recording artists to a whole new way of being heard. The industry playing field had been leveled in his eyes and anything was possible now.

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 After a few more years of performing on the local live circuit he departed Imbalance in 2009 and began recording in his lightly equipped home studio. With the help of poet and songwriter Derek Richards they began recording over forty songs, resulting in the creation of two projects. The first of which was “Enslaving Grace” which released an indie-rock album in 2010 titled "The Gutter Gospel". The second project was “Worry the Bones” that released an alt-metal album in 2011 titled "Thirteen Pregnant Virgins". The music of Worry The Bones received such a good response on the internet that the two song writers decided to form a live act. Initiating three more musicians they would start to perform in the local club circuit. Personalities clashed however and by 2013 the group disbanded. A second album of unreleased songs titled "Remnants" was made available fallowing the project's demise that included two songs, "Hollow" and "Graveyard of Goodbyes" that were  written, performed and recorded by R.G. himself and would be his inspiration towards becoming a solo artist.

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In 2014 he wrote, recorded and released his first single as a solo artist titled “Nothing” and on October 27th, 2021, after three months of writing, recording. producing and engineering he released his first full length, self-produced album “The Solid State of Life in a Vacuum” on his own independent music label "R.G. Williamson Music". It's worth noting that although he never completed college for an art degree he has been fully responsible for all the artwork on every album release as well as all graphic logo designs and advertisements for every musically project he's been a part of.