William Topley is a British musician. He was the lead singer of the band The Blessing in the early 1990s, releasing two albums before breaking up. He was signed as a solo artist by Mercury Nashville after Luke Lewis, who had worked at The Blessing's label MCA, became president of Mercury.^[1] Barry Beckett produced Topley's debut album, which appeared in 1997. He continued recording through the 2000s.

Solo

• Black River (Polygram, 1997)
• Mixed Blessing (Polygram, 1998)
• Spanish Wells (Mercury, 1999)
• Feasting With Panthers (Lost Highway, 2002)
• Sea Fever (Warner Bros., 2005)
• All in the Downs (Self-released, 2007)
• Water Taxi (Self-released, 2009) [with The Sea Gypsies]
• South on Velvet Clouds (Self-released, 2011)
• Aristocrats of the South Seas (Self-released, 2012) [with The Sea Gypsies]
• Halved Moons & Hooded Mountains (2016) [with The Black River Band]
• Amidst the Alien Cane (2020)
• Back at the Napoleon House (2020)

With The Blessing

• Prince of the Deep Water (MCA, 1991)
• Locusts & Wild Honey (Polygram, 1994)
• The Best of the Blessing: Highway 5 (Castle Music, 2000)
• Sugar Train [DVD + CD]

• https://www.musicglue.com/williamtopley/
• Official website