A coal miner’s daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter from Eastern Kentucky, Tiffany Williams lives in Nashville, where she writes songs and fiction. She is the recipient of the 2011 Jean Ritchie Fellowship for Appalachian Writing and the 2017 Denny C. Plattner Award for fiction, a 2021 Kerrville New Folk songwriting competition finalist, a 2023 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist, and has been featured on NPR’s Mountain Stage and WMOT/NPR Live Sessions Finally Friday.

Her debut EP, When You Go, was released in January 2019 and reached No. 15 on the North American College and Community Radio Folk Chart and No. 12 on the Folk DJ Chart. Her sophomore EP, I’ll Be Back Soon, includes a cover of “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive,” featuring Darrell Scott, which reached No. 4 on the Folk DJ Chart, with the album coming in at No. 8.

Her debut LP, All Those Days of Drinking Dust, was released August 19, 2022, peaking at No. 5 and No. 6 on the FAI Folk Chart and NACC Folk Chart, respectively. Wasted Luck, an EP of duets with Dalton Mills, was released on August 2, 2024.

Press

When I first heard Williams during a recent performance, she had a quiet, subdued air about her, with songs that quickly revealed a writer of the highest order, one from a world of literature. Because I was so taken with her songs, what I had missed, until this album, was her gorgeous voice, one reminiscent of a young Margo Timmins. Be it as the coal miner’s daughter (which she is) of the title track or the all-too forgiving lover in “Harder Heart,” Williams presents her songs in a straightforward, unassuming manner that’s also complete with texture, ambiance, and that voice, sometimes just above a whisper, that evokes a certain kind of knowing, as if you are watching yourself from the outside. She just could be the Alice Munro of song. - Amos Perrine, No Depression

“Not only is the language smart and sharp, but it lies down with the music like a couple spooning. […] All the songs were impressive, but the title track from her EP was extraordinary. It dissected the push-and-pull of a mountain home—how it pushes you away to better opportunities, how it pulls you back with its memories.” - Geoffrey Himes, Paste Magazine

“An amazing artist on par with the likes of Patty Loveless, Kim Richey or Mary Chapin Carpenter, Williams is a songbird with vocals that both soothe and stun. Add in her exemplary command of the English language as both a songwriter and an award-winning short story author and you’ve got a star who resides in rare air.” - Ken Churilla, American Songwriter

“Williams’ collection of songs on When You Go is a fitting tribute to her home in the Appalachian Mountains, the singer-songwriter bleeds a genuine fire that’s hard to not fall in love with because of its attention to detail, but also it’s a willingness to let the heart do the talking instead of flash.” - Farce the Music