My Story
Will got his first guitar in 1963. His first real guitar and amp was a 1956 Gibson Melody Maker and a Sears Silvertone two channel 2X12 amp. In his first band they mostly jammed but worked up some Grand Funk, Hendrix and the Allman Brothers band music. They couldn't afford much so the bass player put four heavy guitar strings on his "Decca" guitar and tuned it down an octave. The bass played through the same amp as the guitar and adding a drummer made it a back yard power trio. Will got a job at 14 years old bagging groceries and saved enough to buy a 1967 Fender Dual Showman Reverb from a guitarist at a local club. Later on he got a 1965 Brown Face Fender Princeton amp.
Pic of 60's Silvertone tube amp: 1956 Gibson Melody Maker:
1967 Fender Dual Showman Silverface with two 15 inch JBL's and 1965 Fender Princeton Brown Face Amp:
Will played in many bands over the years in Georgia and Alabama. His longest stint was in a club in Alabama. His life was falling apart because he had left God out of his life to follow his own plans after turning to God years before;
God first entered Will's life at a young age. He ran from the presence of the Lord, but God later followed him into a Blue Oyster Cult rock concert at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in 1973. A great spiritual battle took place and Will received Jesus Christ. Because this encounter with God was so intense when those feelings left, he thought that God had left him too.
Soon he began a deep spiral into drug addiction that included a run in with the Jacksonville SWAT Team in 1979. The SWAT Team won. Several years later Will ended up living like an animal in the woods. He was drinking anything with alcohol in it and using a syringe daily. During a three month stay in jail, he was issued a divorce decree and lost custody of his children.
He then found himself in the State Mental Hospital for the fourth time. A lady came into the hospital bringing a life-changing message to him. She proclaimed: "Someone here has laid their burdens down at the cross years ago, but has picked them back up and walked off with them and they are heavier than before."
Jesus had followed Will into the mental facility. That night in 1988, kneeling by his bed in the hospital, he rededicated his life to God. Will's problems became worse immediately but he had the peace he was looking for. God had a plan and it was way better than anything imagined by Will.
Will met his wife, Liz, in church. 3 1/2 years later they married. Liz and Will have three daughters, two sons, three son in laws and seven grandchildren. Together they have served in ministry over the last 20 years, three of which they pastored a church. Liz is a type A personality and is strong, stable and enduring. She is gifted to teach the Word and has a degree to interpret for the deaf.
In 1999 they started traveling to minister. Will plays guitar like it is on fire but ministers quietly and gently when God brings a person to him. Emotional healing, miracles and physical healing for diseases have taken place. Prophetic insight into a person's heart is present and demons have left people.
Web stations like, Whitedoveradio.com, Christianblues.net and the JoyFM.com broadcast his music. His music has listeners in over 200 countries. It can also be heard on AM and FM stations across Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Africa, South and North America. His latest Cd is produced and distributed by the Christian Motorcyclists Association. Will has traveled extensively to prisons in the USA as a platform artist with Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries, and to foreign countries with God's message of love.
