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Tonight's 52 Acoustic Live Performance - This week features "Chasing Starbeams," "Wicked Game," and this week's new release, "Getting Good At Lonely."

NEW RELEASE "Getting Good At Lonely" from tonight's 52 Acoustic live. Watch the debut LI VE on Facebook and X .

The first 52 Acoustic Live Performance - This week features "Muse," "I'm On Fire," and this week's new release, "Carry Me Away." If you know the acoustic theme, post it in the comments and get access to my private vault of unreleased music.

NEW RELEASE "Carry Me Away" from tonight's 52 Acoustic live.

Happy New Year! Get ready for 52 Acoustic Click the image for Facebook Live RSVP and watch live link

UPDATE - Thank you to everyone that showed up to the live online concert! For a limited time, here's the replay. Enjoy and Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to you and yours. Image click links to the Facebook Live video @amandawilliamsmusic Merry Christmas Songbook Readers Digest To celebrate the reason for the season, announcing a pop-up Christmas concert for friends and family on Christmas Eve. Join us on Facebook Live on December 24 at 7PM Eastern / 6PM Central for an hou

Derek Sivers is a great leader! Sharing his video where I first saw Dancing Man. It takes a lot of courage to let your heart be free, especially in public. You risk embarrassing yourself, but more importantly, you risk ostracization if no one else steps up with their own heart of courage. Isn't having those you love embarrassed by you worse than embarrassment for yourself?  (The answer is yes.) When a person is daring to let it all hang out, in the 90s we had a name for that

Thank you Garth Brooks and Team Garth for including Amanda Colleen Williams in the latest “Garth Brooks The Anthology Part VI The Comeback & The Next Five Years.” It’s a thrill to be part of this project with two of my original songs, “Beer Run” and “I Can Be Me With You.” Have fun reading, listening to the tunes, enjoying the photos, and of course, learning all the stories behind the songs. Let me hear from you in the comments!

"Christmas Waltz" words and music Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn was written for Frank Sinatra. According to legend, Sammy came into the room for the pair's regular songwriting session, and Jule told him, "Frank's looking for a Christmas song." Sammy told Jule, his collaborator on "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow," already a holiday classic, that a person would have to be crazy to try and top "White Christmas" as the season's hit. Jule repeated, "Frank said he wants a Christ

Click image to visit Music Page and listen. Merry Christmas! My old friend asked if I had any Christmas songs, and I told her about this one and sent it to her as a secret.  She loved it and asked if she could share. I prayed about it, and came up with a cover art and plan to make it available. "Joseph Oh Joseph" was written back in 2013 with Randy Brooks, the same gentleman who wrote "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer." It’s up now on my Songlife Music Page and Home Page

Williams Poor Valley Homestead Front Porch View Why don't you just... ? ... so begins every well meaning holiday visitor about what they think you should be doing with your music. Hint - it's always ever so delightful to hear the uninformed, pompous and eagerly stated advice from people who have no basis of knowledge except what they heard on social media tv. In other words, it most likely involves eye rolling, trying out for a TV show, starting a podcast, using content as a

Family home comings can be a flood of feelings - bits of memories from the good ole days when everything was just as simple as taking it all in. Good I miss those days, and Good God, I'm glad they're gone. How is that possible?  Some of you know, and that's what went into this song. Happy Thanksgiving.  I wish you joy and the peace of acceptance - for what ever your heart has tucked away. Big Love, A. Listen to the single All Of My Heart here on my website player, and follow

Happy Anniversary to Appalachia Kid LP that was released 4 years ago today on October 29, 2021. First of all, THANK YOU to everyone that preordered the album when it was first announced.   That helps so much for an artist to gauge demand, and can offset the cost of making new music - both pressing up vinyl records and CDs , but also recording costs like paying your musicians, engineers, studio and songwriter royalties. Lucky for me, I was able to take my time over the years w

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

It’s always a thrill to meet new and talented songwriters.   Back when I was hosting my weekly writer’s night “Blue Monday” in Midtown...

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

A Story of Love with Amanda Colleen Williams @ Franklin Theatre October 12, 2024 7PM. Audience interactive show experience.

"I'm Amazed" is the latest single from multiplatinum awarded songwriter Amanda Colleen Williams (Garth Brooks / George Jones).

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