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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."

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.

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

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

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...

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

Last month's A Story of Love Nashville on Valentine's was a great night. Here are a few pictures below, and you can see more in the slideshow on the Best Ent Show website. Looking forward to sharing more highlights from the 3-Act show with you in the coming weeks! - Love, ACW

Songwriting.  It’s one of the things Nashville is known for... It’s why so many people move here to Music City and visit every year....

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

Announcing A Story of Love Nashville, a special Valentine's Day show at the historic Woolworth Theatre in Downtown Nashville Music City U.S.A. Learn more about the show at BestEntShow.com And get your show tickets at the Woolworth Theatre box office here .

I have had the pleasure of seeing The Shiner’s show twice now, and can honestly say, I am liking it better every time I see it. The first...

It's my pleasure to perform as part of tonight's songwriters-in-the-round at Nashville's The Listening Room Cafe located at 618 4th Ave...

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...

"Lit Up In Love" words and music Brenda Register and Amanda Colleen Williams is now available for download and streaming on your favorite...

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...

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

Paul Leslie, famed interviewer of Willie Nelson, Maya Angelou, Woody Harrelson and Woody Allen, just to name a few luminaries, has...