Shayne Morrison and Clint Williams knew they were a perfect musical match when they began collaborating six years ago after being introduced by a record shop owner in Tyler, Texas. Back then, they channeled their efforts toward writing songs for bassist Morrison’s band, Perfect Stranger. Those songs never made it onto a Perfect Stranger disc, though Williams eventually joined the band as its lead singer. The pair kept writing together sporadically, and submitted a song for the soundtrack to the 2004 film, The Alamo. When producers chose to use an all-instrumental score instead, Morrison and Williams decided it was time to record those tunes on their own. The result is Morrison-Williams’ self-titled debut on Palo Duro Records. The disc of easy country rockers and soulful ballads could catapult them beyond the level of fame Perfect Stranger earned with its indie hits, the Vince Gill-penned “Ridin’ the Rodeo,” and “You Have the Right to Remain Silent,” which became the title of the band’s 1995 Curb Records release. That album reached No. 4 and stayed on Billboard’s country chart for 40-some weeks. Morrison-Williams’ first single is “My Girl Friday,” which Williams wrote with Gary Leach. The lyrics are from the perspective of a man having an affair with a woman who strayed because her husband doesn’t treat her right. The message, Williams says, is: Be good to your wife or girlfriend or she might run into the arms of someone else. And she’d have good reason. Williams confesses, “I can only write about things I’ve sort of experienced. So if there’s anything on the record that I’ve got anything to do with, I’ve probably seen it or been through it.”