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BILL BLOG Thursday November 5, 2025    Thursday morning, and I’m home in Nashville…but just for today. 72 will be the high in Twang Town today, but a cold front is approaching…a freeze is expected by next Monday. Yikes. Not my favorite time of year, dark early, and COLD.   Meanwhile, some will get to see the “northern light” this evening and tomorrow evening. Guess where you’re most likely to see them?   The North. Uh huh. There’s a reason they call them the NORTHERN lights.   YESTERDAY Our “ Evening in the Round” trio made an 8-hour trip back to Nashville from Durham, North Carolina, after our showcase there on Tuesday night. Long trip, but the miles once again flew by with the fall foliage flying by us.   We had such a great time playing for the southeast buyers, and now we wait to hear how many might want to bring our show to their theaters.  GREAT PERFORMANCE We were all still talking about how great this M...

BILL BLOG Wednesday November 5, 2025   Wednesday morning, getting ready to roll home to Nashville from Durham, North Carolina. 72 for a high in Durham today.   YESTERDAY We were up fairly early in Durham for this great showcase event.   Our “Evening in the Round” trio with Linda Davis, Lang Scott,   and me ran through our 15-minute set for our showcase tonight. And then our good friend Brooke Aldridge came by our hotel room with Darin, her husband, and ran through “Does He Love You” singing Reba’s part of that huge hit, and would later be a surprise guest during our showcase for all the buyers gathered here. We all felt it would be a big moment in our little set.   Later, we grabbed a burger at a recommended local place that was SO good. Grain-fed cattle. And we sat with a couple of long tables full of buyers from Georgia representing their theaters. We certainly hope to be visiting some of those folks next year. ...

BILL BLOG Tuesday November 4, 2025    And a good Tuesday morning from Durham, North Carolina.   YESTERDAY Linda Davis , Lang Scott , and I made an 8-hour drive from Nashville, here, to Durham, North Carolina. We’re playing a 15-minute showcase this evening for a bunch of theater buyers from the southeast.  Over the next couple of days, buyers will listen to acts of all kinds and decide who they want to book shows with for next season. We’re hoping a bunch of them love our “Evening in the Round” show and will bring us to their hometowns.   We feel fortunate to be here because this particular showcase is very hard to get into and is one of the most prestigious of its kind. We’ll play in the beautiful Carolina Theatre this evening for those buyers…so wish us good luck.   THE DRIVE OVER It was SCENIC for sure traveling through Tennessee, Virginia, the Carolinas, and through the Blueridge Mountains as the leaves have turn...

BILL BLOG Monday November 3, 2025   Monday morning, and here we are…November. And to kick off my November, my bag and guitar are once again packed for a road trip to Raleigh, North Carolina. More on that at the end of today’s Blog.   63 for the high today here in Nashville. Same high in Raleigh.   THE WEEKEND Friday morning, I finished up a great bluegrass song with Jerry Salley and Alex Miller at my publishing company Billy Blue. We had a lot of this written, but ran out of time to finish it when we started it a couple of months before.   Jerry Salley has had as many bluegrass cuts as anybody in town, and he hers this song for a big-name bluegrass artist that all three of us love, and he’s going to send the song to him. Here’s hoping he loves it as much as we do, but if he passes, at the very least it will be a song that Jerry records…and that ain’t half bad either.      SATURDAY I made a trip south to Pulaski, T...