Mentor Williams is an American songwriter and producer. He is best known for writing "Drift Away", a middle-of-the-road playlist classic performed by Dobie Gray in 1973. He is the brother of songwriter Paul Williams.He has received an award from ASCAP for his 30 years of songwriting, and has earned 17 writer awards. Williams maintained an office at Almo-Irving, in Los Angeles, as staff writer in the late 1960s.