H. Jack Williams Music
H. Jack Williams performing onstage

Songwriter · Recording Artist · Producer · Actor

Five decades.
Still writing forward.

Songs shaped by a life fully lived—from rock & roll history to Nashville, film, and the hard-won hope at the heart of Jack’s newest work.

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Written, recorded & worked with

THE WHO • URIAH HEEP • GREGG ALLMAN • THE OAK RIDGE BOYS • KEVIN COSTNER • MONTGOMERY GENTRY
01 The Story

A songwriter’s life you couldn’t make up.

For more than five decades, H. Jack Williams has made his life with words, melodies, and stories.

His songs have been recorded by Gregg Allman, Richie Havens, the Oak Ridge Boys, Uriah Heep, Blackfoot, Little River Band, Montgomery Gentry, Son Seals and many others. His career has carried him from rock and roll history to Nashville, from life at sea to film and television, and into a lasting creative friendship with Kevin Costner, whose band Modern West has recorded several of Jack’s songs.

Jack’s spoken-word album Something About Hope brings together Kevin Costner, Ward Davis, Duane Allen, Dave Gibson, John Fusco, W. Earl Brown and other friends. In songs and stories about trauma, addiction, survival, faith, love and humor, he speaks with the honesty of a man who has lived every mile. Onstage, Jack does more than perform—he invites people into the life behind the songs. Don’t tell me I can’t.

H. Jack Williams with Kevin Costner
“Jack is a rugged poet with a tender heart. He’s seen war and understands love.”
— Kevin Costner
New single · Now on all platforms
Getting in the Wayof Myself

A new song from H. Jack Williams about the hardest person to outrun—and the fight to stop standing between yourself and the life you’re chasing.

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Something About Hope album cover

02 Featured Release

Spoken word album

Something
About Hope

A deeply personal ten-track collection about surviving darkness and finding the light ahead—featuring Kevin Costner, W. Earl Brown, John Fusco and more.

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03 Watch

Stories. Songs. A life in motion.

Watch the trailer for Something About Hope, then visit Jack’s channel for performances, interviews and new work.

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05 Selected Cuts

Songs that found
their way into the world.

H. Jack Williams has had songs recorded by artists across rock, country, blues and Americana—and placed in television and film.

Television

Yellowstone

“Heaven’s Gate” · Kevin Costner & Modern West

Film

Miracles from Heaven

“Right Where We Belong”

Film

Renegades

“Just Before the Bullets Fly”

Chart

“Dirt Road in ’Em”

Aaron Pritchett · No. 1 in Canada

Kevin Costner & Modern West

“Heaven’s Gate” · “Last Time” · “Won’t Stop Loving You” · “Man I Am” · “Love Shine” · “Heaven’s So Far Away”

Uriah Heep

“Choices” · “Keep On Ridin’” · “The Hangin’ Tree” · “The Dance”

Gregg Allman · Son Seals · Coco Montoya

“Just Before the Bullets Fly”

Montgomery Gentry & Black Stone Cherry

“Back on a Dirt Road”

Ken Hensley

“Send Me an Angel” · “Inside the Mystery” · “Give Me a Reason”

The Oak Ridge Boys

“Seasons” · “Everybody Wins”

Black Stone Cherry

“Get Me Over You”

Little River Band

“You Dream, I’ll Drive”

Molly Hatchet

“Keep On Ridin’”

Lucas Hoge

“Dirty South” · “This Old Flame”

Clayton Anderson

“Sweet Enough” · “Right Where I Belong” · “Ride With Me” · “You Turn Me On”

Tommy Steele Band

“Both Sides of the Fence” · “My Side of the Street” · “Seventeen” · “Do What You Gotta Do” · “What Kind of Man”

More Recorded Cuts

Lance Miller · Jeff Bates · Colm Kirwin · Andy Velo · Point Blank · David James · The Washboard Union · Stephanie Urbina Jones · Adam Brand · The Adam Eckersley Band · Kristina Cornell · Borrowed Blue · Josh Pruno · Brandi Zdan · Robert Jon & The Wreck · Macey Mac

And many more independent artists.

06 In Their Words

Friends, artists
and collaborators.

“Jack is a rugged poet with a tender heart. He’s seen war and understands love. It’s a baseline as he communicates his feelings.”

Kevin Costner

“Jack Williams is a true legend and I’m proud to call him a good friend, too. He has a way with storytelling and making the listener feel like he wrote it just for them.”

Sarah Buxton

“He has a way of digging deeper than most in his song subjects and, at his best, is a great lyrical illustrator. Jack is dedicated and diligent.”

Ken Hensley · Uriah Heep

“These were strong Heep songs that fit very well into our classic rock catalog. Jack is tenacious with a very do-or-die positive nature that is infectious.”

Mick Box · Uriah Heep

“Jack is a great guy to have in the room. He has a knack for pinpointing a song’s essence and steering the write straight into where the heart of the song lives.”

Troy Johnson

07 Happening Now

What Jack is doing next.

New release

Something About Hope

A Grammy-nominated spoken-word album featuring friends and guest voices.

Film

Preparation for the Next Life

Directed by Bing Liu.

Album

Cowboys and Endings

By Barry Corbin. Co-produced by H. Jack Williams.

Acting

Horizon

A cameo in Kevin Costner’s film saga.
08 A memoir by H. Jack Williams
DON’T TELL MEI CAN’T

Does where you begin have to determine where you end?

DON’T TELL ME I CAN’T is about music, addiction, survival, self-sabotage and reinvention—and the stubborn belief that where you begin does not have to determine where you end.

Jack’s completed memoir follows a life that began in violence and nearly ended more than once, then somehow carried him into rooms with some of the most recognizable names in music. It is not just the story of the career he built. It is the story of surviving long enough to build one at all.

Book news and publication information coming soon.

Portrait of H. Jack Williams

09 Connect

Let’s make
something real.

For songwriting, collaboration, performances, acting, press, licensing and publishing inquiries, contact Jack directly.

Contact Jack jacksong502002@gmail.com