Billy Block has been a champion for songwriters for a long time. The founder of Western Beat, along with Wendy Waldman and Brad Parker, he impacted the lives of songwriters here in L.A. before moving ...

Americana music has lost one of its greatest supporters. Billy Block has passed away at the age of 59. Block was an avid champion of American roots music for nearly 20 years, with a weekly live ...

Beloved longtime radio host, event MC, session drummer and tireless advocate for Nashville's aspiring country musicians Billy Block died this afternoon. Block's death follows a long battle with Stage ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – William “Billy” Block, a longtime Nashville radio host known as “Mr. Nashville,” passed away Wednesday at the age of 59. His wife announced his passing on Facebook just ...

Billy Block, the famed drummer, show MC, radio host, husband, father and eternal champion of the underdog, died March 11 after his third bout with melanoma. He was 59. Born in Miami, Block began his ...

Billy Block, 58, has cancer. The bad kind of cancer. One of them, anyway. Stage IV melanoma, and it has spread to his lymph nodes, spleen and liver. "I'm healed," he says. Billy Block is a positive ...

FRANKLIN – The Billy Block Beats Cancer Night is Thursday, July 3, at Puckett’s Boat House in downtown Franklin. The event, a fundraiser for longtime radio host Billy Block, will feature “Capt.

Musicians and friends are holding a benefit and silent auction for Billy Block, who's battling level four metastatic cancer. Artists scheduled to perform include Rock "Dr. Rockit" Romano, John Evans, ...