Country-folk practitioner Jess Williamson’s road to her fourth album, Time Ain’t Accidental, has been anything but conventional. Born in the Dallas suburbs, she hightailed to Austin after high school to study photography at the University of Texas. She’d always been a as she puts it “singing kid” growing up, but there wasn’t a clear path to a music career set out for her in those formative years. It was when she was attending the Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York City for an MFA at the turn of the 2010s that things finally began to click for her: “I had a little bit of a crisis moment and I realized that, all my life, all I’d ever wanted to do was sing and write songs and have a band and put out records and go on tour and play shows,” Williamson says. “I was taking out all these loans and I realized, ‘If I stay here and finish out this program, I’m pretty much locked into a career that I don’t think I want.’ And I was 21 and I realized i
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