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Tennessee Heritage means different things to different people. Exploring what heritage means to me as a second generation TN songwriter.

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...

“Our family is cursed in Arkansas,” my Mamaw Manis once stated frankly. Her white shock of hair, hazel eyes blazing countenance matched...

For the past several years I have been gearing up to release a video teaser of my Story of Love one woman show. At first the show was...

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

It was a great night for live music in Nashville this Saturday at my private events venue in West Nashville, The 7695. Nashville Rounds...

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...

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

Do you love to write? Poetry, songs, short stories, essays, even business reports – When you write something, you are not only creating art

I have lots of fond memories of spending Christmas with my family in East Tennessee. This picture is looking out my mamaw's living room...

Amanda Colleen Williams teaches world Copyright Ministers, Judges and Intellectual Property professionals at USPTO Copyright Seminar 2019