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What do Elvis Presley, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield and Neil Diamond have in common?   Bobby Wood, of...

Had a blast serving as a judge for the Sing Your Heart Out competition at the Williamson County Fair yesterday afternoon. If you thought...

On the Town: An Evening of Heritage, Community and Music at The Franklin Theatre supporting Williamson County Heritage Foundation Jun 30

You might wonder what a hillbilly singer from East Tennessee is doing releasing a traditional Chinese song. The answer is Love. For...

Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots by Reba McEntire is more than a cookbook. Sure, it’s...

An old friend called today and said, “It looks like you’ve got a lot of exciting, great stuff going on down there in Nashville!” I told...

For the past 12 years, I have been putting on the Nashville Songwriting and Music Business Conference, presented this year by...

It is estimated that 1 in 5 adults, (52.9 million in 2020) in the United States suffer from some form of recognized mental illness....

For your listening enjoyment, here is a fun blog-cast discussion with Key West native author Scott Atwell. We talk about: what it means...

Fantasy Meets Reality – Living and Creating Art In the Florida Keys – a Conversation with Artist Sandy West The Lower Keys in Florida are...

One definition for creativity is the ability to make new connections between familiar topics. That makes Buffett Backstories: Fifty Years...

How to handle the heat and humidity in the summertime great outdoors has always been a challenge for some of us. As a child growing up in...

A lot of you know that in addition to working on my own music, I help a lot of other people work on their music, too. Back in 2010 when I...

This afternoon I had the honor of picking up a signed copy of this House Joint Resolution honoring my dad, Kim Williams from Tennessee...

Join me on April 26, 2022 at 10 AM EDT / 9 AM CST for a special World Intellectual Property Day webinar called “IP Stories: Innovating...

On March 12, 2022 at the Georgia World Congress Center, Ambassador Andrew Young, the first African American Ambassador to the United...

Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. today and all that he did in his life, and even today, to further the cause of right human relations....

Appalachia is pronounced Apple-atcha in the rural southern part of the region, and App-a-lay-sha in the northern most and less rural...

Songpreneurs is my company that I started back in 2010 to help songwriters make an honest go at their music. Having watched my dad climb...

Some of my fondest memories are of holidays spent at my Mamaws’ Thanksgiving tables. Living in East Tennessee Appalachia we had a fine...