“Fearing the Dawn” is a country-blues shuffle of a song on which Bill Filipiak sings of coming to terms with his father’s death—not an easy journey as he confesses, “It took five years for me to say goodbye to you” and then, perhaps just as hard to accept, “now the world is expecting me to fill your shoes.“ Speaking of the song, Filipiak emphasized these themes: “There’s something about that moment when you realize, ‘I’m the eldest in the family, I’m the patriarch now’ and facing that new dawn, that’s scary as hell.”
As a producer for the Grand Ole Opry, Bill has worked with, befriended and learned from an impressive list of artists including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Keb Mo, George Thorogood, Allison Russell, Lera Lynn and Sarah Jarosz. And for the last five years, taking inspiration from these luminaries, he’s embarked on a solo career of his own.