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New Year's Day Write...Great Food...Apple On The Tree Song

BILL BLOG Thursday January 2, 2025   Thursday morning has rolled around and how was your New Year’s Day? Cold here this morning with the temperature sitting at just 26 at the start of today’s Blog. 46 will be the high.   YESTERDAY I did a little tweaking of a song with Casey Penn …a bluegrass artist from Arkansas and lyricist Brent Baxter who was online with us from his home in Missouri. Casey had a line or two in a song we had written a few months ago. So the three of us dug in virtually and worked to make the song stronger. She loved the change…so mission accomplished. This is a song about Casey’s Razorback home state that’s going to be on her next album she’s working on right now. So it was worth the effort to spend an hour on New Year’s Day working to make it better.     NEW YEAR’S PIGSKIN After that was done…it was College Football Playoff Bowl games the rest of the day. I think there’s still a bag of chips on the couch. The Texas...

Quiet New Year...Ray Stevens...A Look Back

BILL BLOG January 1, 2025   Wednesday…bring with it the very first day of a New Year. Time flies don’t it?   YESTERDAY A lazy New Year’s Eve day around the Whyte House. My wife and I called our daughter Heather over in Germany to wish her a Happy Birthday…yep a New Year’s Eve kid. She and her husband Casey were in a theme park in the Netherlands called “Efteling” to celebrate the occasion. The two of them took us there when we were over in Germany last year so in our minds at least…we could picture where they were at. More on the Germany trip at the end of today’s Blog in the “Looking Back” section.   TWEAKING I also spent a little time on the phone with producer-writer-singer Jerry Salley who is recording a song I helped write with my friend Andrea Pearson tweaking some lyrics of that song that young-talented bluegrass artist Caroline Owens is getting ready to record on her next album. Heck of an up-tempo tune and we wanted to make s...

New Year's Eve...Special Birthday...Trailer Park Sexy

BILL BLOG Tuesday December 31, 2024   Tuesday…New Year’s Eve and Happy Birthday to my daughter Heather!      COLD Those weather folks are warning of a Polar Vortex coming…and no…it’s not that Christmas movie. That means the country will get very cold…colder than it’s been since 2014. That means I have a brother who retired in Florida feeling pretty good about his decision to leave Pennsylvania for the Sunshine State. 57 will be the high in Nashville today…and some of that cold weather will hit us by next weekend.   Speaking of Pennsylvania…   YESTERDAY I was online with Troy Engle in Pennsylvania yesterday writing a new bluegrass song. Troy is a noted bluegrass artist on Pinecastle Record and I was lucky to have a couple of songs on his first album for the label including the title track “ Back Home” .   I had a little idea…not much that I shared with him that he liked about “ Living the Good Life ” even when o...

Saturday Shows...Chart Action...President Carter

BILL BLOG Monday December 30, 2024   It be Monday morning…New Year’s Eve…Eve.   And I’ve already broken all my New Years resolutions. Looking for a high of 61 in Nashville today.   THE WEEKEND Saturday night I played at a new place for me… Main & Monroe in Lexington, TN with my friend Lauren Mascitti .   We had two dinner shows at this great little café that owner Robbie McCready and his wife Emma own and run located on the beautiful town square in Lexington. They are trying to create a Bluebird Café type of atmosphere an hour and a half west of Nashville by hosting songwriter evenings to go along with their delicious menu.   Despite heavy rain that evening we had a great turnout and just had the best time playing there. Robbie is retired Army…special forces guy. And a great guy to boot.   And it was a pleasure sitting beside one of my favorite singers in Nashville swapping songs with Lauren who played this new ...