Will Meadors       Will grew up the youngest of four boys in a musical family in suburban Maryland.  He recalls first making music on an old upright piano in the family's living room, which soon gave way to a harpsichord, on which he took his first keyboard lessons.      Will's father was a medical doctor who practiced in Frederick, MD, but played just about any instrument he ever came across.  In the family home were instruments of about every nature, from 3 pianos, accordions, trumpets, trombones, violins, a cello, flutes, baroque recorders, as well as extensive piles of sheet music, old jazz and country 78 rpm records, hymnals, musical information on just about every genre.           He took violin lessons for about a year in elementary school, and got his first guitar when he was 13, quickly learning to play about every Bob Dylan song in the book.  He joined his first band at 17, playing acoustic rhythm guitar and mandolin in a rock and roll band that played everything from Average White Band to Zepellin.      College came, then marriage and the demands of young children.  But the guitar came out again, and with a purpose, he woodshedded til his fingers bled, learning fiddle tunes and flatpicking from Norman Blake records and Tony Rice lesson books.       He restarted fiddle lessons, but soon came to realize that it was about the most difficult thing he ever tried to do.  "Too much is required of the right hand and the bow" says the southpaw.  But then he recalled the mandolin, which had the same tuning...      Around that same time, he realized that every bluegrass jam he showed up to had about 5 too many guitarists, so he sold an old Volkswagen and bought himself a decent mandolin with the proceeds, and began to learn the mandolin and the upright bass at about the same time.  "You have to have priorities" he says of that deal.  The VW convertible is probably rust today, while that mandolin is still going strong.      Will has gone deeper into combining music with other outlets- in 2003, he co-founded a company to revive the onetime Frederick, Maryland guitar company named Micro-Frets, learned how to synthesize his computer science professional background with woodworking and music to use high-tech CNC technology to produce electric guitars.  He personally set up a production line, engineered all the parts, and replicated the one-of-a-kind guitar designs played by Carl Perkins and Mark Farner.  Every part on the guitar with the exception of knobs and tuners were made by hand in his shop.        Will plays Mandolin with WFL, and chips in on guitar on a few gospel pieces, giving Jason a much deserved rest.  He also plays upright bass in several pick-up groups in the Frederick, MD. area, and has performed on stage in many bands, in rock, blues, bluegrass and contemporary Christian and Irish genres, playing electric guitar, electric bass, mandolin, mandola, tin whistle and Irish bodhran and Nigerian ashiko.     Along with the bluegrass influences from the DC area- The Seldom Scene, The Country Gentlemen,  Will lists the "brothers" (Allmans, Iseleys, Lilly, Louvins and Everlys), the "Johns" (Duffey, Lennon, Doctor, and Cash) along with guitar heroes Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Django Reinhardt, Clarence White, Tony Rice, and mandolinists Jethro Burns, David Grisman, John Reischman, and Sam Bush as luminaries who have gone ahead and lit the path.     When asked what he wants to say in Waiting For Lester, he prefers to let the mandolin do the talking, because he's too busy figuring out where the baritone vocal part goes!  But on a serious note, he wants to stress the importance of a good vocal mix in a Bluegrass band- the instruments will all follow from a solid vocal band.