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BILL BLOG Wednesday August 6, 2025    Hump Day Wednesday is on us. A little warmer in Nashville today as we have a high of 85 degrees on tap.   YESTERDAY Linda Davis , Lang Scott , and I said our goodbyes to a mutual friend of ours, Mark Houser , at his celebration of life ceremony. And it was a celebration indeed. Mark was a co-writer of mine. He and his girlfriend, Tena Rogers, run Amercianaville,  a wonderful venue in Livingston, Tennessee that the three of us have played on more than one occasion. Mark’s “Gospel Train” album includes a song that Lang and Linda sang on, “ I Will Stand, ” which they performed beautifully at his ceremony.    Mark fought a valiant fight against cancer for 3 years. Before he passed, Mark wrote with me an idea he had titled “ Where You Choose To Go ” that landed on the same album that Lang and Linda sang on…Gospel Train. He had cancer when we wrote that song. Here’s the thing about celebratio...

BILL BLOG Tuesday August 5, 2025    Hello Tuesday morning. Today will be the 3 rd shortest day of the year. And as I begin this blog, it’s only 66 degrees in Nashville, but the high will be 80 later today.   YESTERDAY It was an uneventful Monday with no writing appointments scheduled. But after being on the road for a couple of days, it’s always nice to have one of those days to catch up and reset. And that’s pretty much what I did. I did book a couple of future writing appointments and tweaked a couple of tunes. Lazy Monday.   NICE MUSIC SURPRISE The girls in the musical trio “ Three Times A Lady ” are seen HERE singing a song that I wrote with two of the girls, Kennedy Scott , and Victoria Camp . Hannah Blaylock is the third member. They’re singing our song “ Do Me Like That ” at their show, Third and Lindsley, just a couple of nights ago. I did not know the trio had worked u the song, so what a pleasant surprise.    ...

BILL BLOG Monday August 4, 2025   It’s Monday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville after being in Shiloh, Illinois, this past weekend. The weather was great there all weekend, and it continues here in Music City today with a high of just 78.   THE WEEKEND I had a great weekend in Shiloh, Illinois, writing with veterans in that community for the third time. Shiloh is just a few minutes away from downtown St. Louis, and the weather turned beautiful for our weekend with temperatures dipping into the 60s in the evening.     Friday night, the folks from Shiloh fed us a little Italian. Something called mostaccioli pasta. We’d never heard of the dish before, and that included songwriter Bill DiLuigi , who was with us, and he’s Italian! So good. And then, myself, songwriters Bobby Tomberlin, Steve Dean, and Bill DiLuigi did a songwriters round for the veterans and local folks who came out to see us. SATURDAY We were up early for breakf...