Westhaven Songwriter Night with Wil Nance and Steve Williams

Welcome to Westhaven Songwriter Night with Wil Nance and Steve Williams! Join us at the Westhaven Residents Club on July 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM (Central Time) for an evening of amazing music and talent. Doors open at 6pm and music starts at 6:30pm.

Wil Nance BIO

Wil Nance hit the top of R&R and Billboard with his #1 BRAD PAISLEY smash “She’s Everything,” a song on Time Well Wasted, the Multi Platinum 2007 CMA Album of the Year.

In 1999, Wil received a BMI award for “Round About Way,” a #1 hit single for GEORGE STRAIT, a song on the Multi Platinum CMA Album of the Year Carrying Your Love With Me. “Round About Way” is also on GEORGE STRAIT’S Latest Greatest Hits and GEORGE STRAIT’S 50 Number Ones… Over ten million sales and counting.

Wil has received “Million Air” Awards from BMI for GEORGE STRAIT’S “Round About Way” (Nance / Dean) and BRAD PAISLEY’S “She’s Everything” (Nance / Paisley).

He also landed on Troubadour, GEORGE STRAIT’S Platinum selling, Grammy Winning, 2008 CMA Album of the Year with a song called “If Heartaches Were Horses” (Nance / Brock / Dillon).

In 2004, Wil received another BMI Award for his top ten JOE NICHOLS single “Cool To Be A Fool” (Nance / Dean / Nichols).

In 2009, GEORGE STRAIT cut another Wil Nance song: “Where Have I Been All My Life,” which is on the GEORGE STRAIT CD Twang. And in 2015, “It Takes All Kinds,” a song co-written with Bubba & George Strait, on the CD Cold Beer Conversations.

Other SINGLES include: BLUE COUNTY “I Get To” (also nominated for Dove Award – Easters version), JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY “You Are,” GENE WATSON “Next To Nothin,” CHAD BROCK “You Are,” MO PITNEY “Local Honey,” & more.

Plus additional cuts on major label artists: BRAD PAISLEY, TRACY LAWRENCE, JOE NICHOLS, NEAL MCCOY, CRAIG MORGAN, DIAMOND RIO, SAMMY KERSHAW, JEFF & SHERRI EASTER, OAKRIDGE BOYS, EASTON CORBIN, THE FARM, LOCASH COWBOYS, CHRIS JANSON, ETC.

Wil is currently signed with CURB MUSIC PUBLISHING/WORD ENTERTAINMENT & has had recent cuts on Rodney Atkins “So Good,” a cut on Joe Nichols “Hawaii In Me,” Craig Morgan “Ask Him,” & a single on Jeff & Sherri Easter “Here Comes Jesus.”

Steve Williams BIO

Steve Williams started playing solo gigs when I was 16 working in bars. One of his first memories was the night an old drunk guy asked him to play “Me and Bobby McGee.” He did, and the man gave him a dollar. He said, “play it one more time," and then gave Steve another dollar. This went on all night (Steve made 19 dollars that night)!

Steve joined an Illinois based band, Woodrose, at age nineteen and had been writing songs for a couple years by then. At twenty-two, he hooked up with Arrow Memphis (1976). They were pretty much country-rock based and gigs in the midwest were slim, so they headed to Tucson, Arizona where a friend, John Edwards, offered them a place to stay at his ranch at the foot of the Tucson Mountains. They became the house band at a place called the Stumble Inn and released a self titled album, Arrow Memphis in 1980.

Steve's wife (Terri) and he moved to Austin Texas in 1985 to join “Toby Beau.” They returned a year later when he got an offer to play with the Russ Bono Band. Steve went on to start a new classic rock band called The Blast and after a couple years of local success they were asked to be the back up band for a new Atlantic Nashville artist Woody Lee. That’s how he got to Nashville.

Steve wrote a few songs with Woody and that led to him signing my first Publishing deal with Malaco Music Publishing. That was 19 years and 5 publishing deals ago. Steve has been fortunate enough to have had two #1 songs (“Redneck Yacht Club” and “I Get To”) and to have had songs on 3 gold records. "Where Have I Been All My Life” was recorded by George Strait (Twang album) and has been heralded as one of his most poignant songs to date.

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