DATE: MAY 14, 2026

FROM: LYNDIE WENNER, SRO PR

 

NETCOM MUSIC ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE OF
TWO-TIME GRAMMY-NOMINATED BILL PURSELL’S
“THE GOOD YEARS,”

A REMASTERED ORIGINAL COMPOSITION
OUT TODAY, MAY 14
APPEARS ON THE NEWLY REMASTERED ALBUM
‘THE GOOD YEARS’
DUE JUNE 9

INCLUDES THE LATE MUSICIAN’S FAVORITE SELECTIONS FROM
THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
LISTEN TO “THE GOOD YEARS” HERE

(Album Cover Art) (download)

Netcom Music today (May 14) announces the release of “The Good Years,” an original song composed, arranged, and recorded by the late two-time Grammy-nominated BILL PURSELL. This single from the longtime Nashville session pianist and a member of Nashville’s A-Team of musicians is the first song to be released from his newly remastered album THE GOOD YEARS. Due June 9, it’s a collection of some of Pursell’s favorite songs from the Great American Songbook that was originally recorded at Reflections Studio in Nashville in 1994 and was recently remastered by Stephan Oberhoff at Creation Station East, Nashville. Pursell previously described this track as his “curtain closer to the album and a look back to a long time ago.” “The Good Years” is now available on all streaming platforms. Listen HERE.

Nashville music legend Charlie McCoy, a longtime friend and fellow Nashville A-Team session-musician, shared: “I first met Bill Pursell in the studio back in the early 60’s when he was the new session guy in town. On one of the early sessions, he and I had a nice chat. We learned that we both had the same Solfeggio teacher at two different colleges. Bill became an artist and recorded a huge hit called “Our Winter Love” on Columbia Records. Later, as part of the Belmont University Music School, Bill was one of the main reasons the school became one of the best in the nation. Above all, he was a great friend.”

Photo credit: Bruno Bernard (download)

About Bill Pursell:

Bill Pursell was a Nashville session pianist, composer, orchestrator and arranger throughout the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s for the following artists: Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Boots Randolph, Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, Johnny Paycheck, Joan Baez, Scotty Moore, J.J. Cale, Dan Fogelberg, Bob Dylan, Burl Ives, Eddy Arnold, James Galway, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, Bobby Vinton, Charlie Pride, Buddy Emmons, Lefty Frizzell, Brenda Lee, Charlie McCoy and more. Pursell began teaching at Belmont University in 1980 (music history, theory, composition and orchestration) after being approached by the President of the college to add to the music department’s curriculum, shaping the program’s unique bridge between classical and popular music and leaving a lasting legacy on the institution’s history. Pursell was a cornerstone of the Belmont University School of Music serving as a professor for 37 years. Pursell passed away in 2021 at the age of 95 years old.

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