CREDITS:
2007 Garth Brooks "Ultimate Hits"
2006 George Jones "God's Country: George Jones & Friends"
2006 Various Artists "Peacedriven Songwriters Compilation"
2006 self released "Funkabilly 6:23"
2005 self released "Poetry"
2003 SPAT Records compilation
2002 Epic Records presents "Shekinah 13 Artists: Women of Berklee College of Music"
2001 Garth Brooks "Scarecrow"
2001 George Jones "The Rock"
OPENED FOR/PERFORMED WITH:
Chieftains
Rembrandts w/ Daniel Tashien
Tim McGraw
Lonestar
Greg Garing
Grascals
Lance Miller
Trent Tomlinson
John Rich
BRAGGING RIGHTS:
- played at Ambassador Andrew Young's 75th birthday party in Atlanta in front of President Bill Clinton, Maya Angelou, Ludacris, Angela Bassett & Jane Fonda
- Beer Run was nominated for a Grammy in 2002 "best vocal collaboration"
- graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music
- run a successful weekly writer's night in Nashville called "Blue Monday" - many call us "the best writer's night in Nashville"
- have music catalogs with Sony ATV, Magic Mustang & independently
Amanda Williams was born to be a songwriter. Its in her blood. She comes from a long line of musicians and writers, most notably her songwriting father, Kim Williams (Three Wooden Crosses, Aint Going Down Til The Sun Comes Up). Being able to sit at the feet of a master songwriter from an early age infused Williams with an innate sense of the craft of songwriting.
She listened and learned from her dad and as her skill developed she began co-writing with him. They teamed up (along with several other writers) to pen the George Jones/Garth Brooks hit Beer Run.
That song opened the door to the Nashville publishing community, but it also presented a problem. Williams didn't want to be pigeonholed as a strictly country writer.
"All my life Ive heard that if you're a country writer, you cant write rock and if you're a rock writer you cant write country," she says. "But sometimes it just happens. I understand the need for musical genres, but sometimes we get so bogged down in classifying music that we cant just let the music be itself."
To purchase Amanda's CD and listen to more tracks go to
www.amandawilliamsmusic.net/amanda_williams_audio_files.htm
www.amandawilliamsmusic.net
For more tunes check out http://www.myspace.com/marystarchurch
Special Thanks to Vickie Vaughan for her photo contributions