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Keller Williams (also known as K-Dub and the Jam-Man) is a one man jam band. A self-taught, percussive, and rhythmic musician, Keller plays mainly on acoustic guitars while looping other instruments with a Gibson Echoplex Delay system. He formerly used a Lexicon Jamman, inspired by Flecktones bassist and Virginia native, Victor Wooten. Many die-hard fans of Keller Williams tend to prefer his pre-looping albums. He is, mainly, a one man band and a singer-songwriter, known for unconventional introspective folk songs and his innovative and original methods of performing concerts in the jam band scene. His main guitars used are modified 12 string Guild JF30-12s and a Martin HD-28. He also has a few custom guitars, a custom baritone, and he uses a Godin Electric, a synthesizer, as well as a Fender Jazz Bass. On his 12 string guitars, Keller takes one string off of the high and low E pair for better and sharper harmonics during playing, thus making them 10 string guitars.
Williams' lyrics are humorous and often somewhat nonsensical with his often lighthearted and liberal views on everyday life, touring, and everyday activities to marijuana legalization. He often plays with the String Cheese Incident, as a jam band called the Keller Williams (or K-Dub) Incident. The year 2005 saw him create a new band, Keller McGee, with jam band Umphrey's McGee. He records and is managed under String Cheese Incident's label, SCI Fidelity and he often uses his hometown studio, Wally Cleaver's Recording, in Fredericksburg.
By his association with the String Cheese Incident and other jam-bands such as Yonder Mountain String Band and going to such festivals as Haymaker and Bonnaroo, he has gained fanbase strength, although a lot of his die-hard fanbase currently seems to remain around his home in the Virginia and North Carolina area. In 2004, Keller toured on the Acoustic Planet Tour with Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and Yonder Mountain String Band. In 2005, he had a very successful large Summer tour with String Cheese Incident, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Umphrey's McGee, Yonder Mountain String Band, New Monsoon, and occasionally, Australian native Xavier Rudd.