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Tuesday July 30, 2024

 

 

Tuesday…and it’s the next to last day of July already. High temperature in Nashville today will be 92 and a heat wave warning has been issued to go with that. It’s going to be a Right and Left Guard kind of day.

 

YESTERDAY

It was a day of catching up and starting a new song with my friend Katrina Burgoyne. It’s the first time we’ve sat down to create something new after she and her husband Steve created a baby girl together 3 months ago that they named “Poppy”. 


 


 

The two of them are going through all the joy and the challenge that comes with having a first baby while trying to balance two careers. Not easy. Katrina is playing music 4 or 5 nights a week, and her husband Steve is a talented musician who is also a videographer shooting music videos like this one that they did for my friend Alex Miller. It was great getting to catch up with her and start a new “fun” song together.

 

KRISTY COX

Bluegrass Today just gave a wonderful review of the new Kristy Cox album “Let It Burn” that I’ve been blogging about for a while now as I have three songs on that project. They include, Some Things Don’t Go Together, God Never Made A Mountain, and How Lucky Am I. Check out what the music reviewer wrote.

 

Let It Burn conveys two types of songs in general — those are upbeat and infectious (the title track, Some Things Don’t Go Together and Steady as the Rain in particular) and others that take the form of heartburn ballads (Broke Down in Georgia, Front Porch of Paradise, In My Dreams, and God Never Made a Mountain being the most pronounced), providing proof that Cox is adept at shifting her stance and varying her emotional palette.

 

Howlucky am I,” she sings on the album’s final entry, and while she may be describing the good fortune that life has brought her, it’s abundantly clear that all she’s gained has come by way of talent and tenacity. How lucky the rest of us are that we can be witness to her resources.

 

Thank you for the great review!

 

NEW MUSIC

I’m happy to be part of this great new album coming out officially now on August 9 from my friend Troy Engle.



 

The album contains 2 songs Troy and I wrote including the current single that’s in the Top 10 for gospel bluegrass charts right now “Never Too Lost” and the song “Back Home”. The album is available to pre-purchase right now at this LINK.

 

The thing to keep in mind about these songs and this album is that everything you hear on it is all Troy. He plays every instrument, sings, does harmony…an amazing talent. So grateful he included a couple of our tunes on this.

 

HEALTH NOTES

Researchers a claiming that biological aging can be reversed by cutting one thing out of our diets. Sugar.

 

Health officials are now seeing folks overdosing on weight loss drugs.

 

A new study is suggesting that pesticides may raise your risk of cancer as much as smoking.

 

HARD TO ARGUE WITH THIS



 

SURVEY SAYS

That 1 in 15 in Americans are millionaires now. That’s 22 million millionaires in the U.S.

 

And somewhere after reading this Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg are thinking, “those poor people.”

 

MORE STATISTICS

60.6% are now cremated at death. And that number is growing in a big way. Those in the know say that by the year 2035 that 80% of us will choose cremation over burial.

 

I’m not crazy about either myself. I’m from the Yogi Berra school of thinking. 

 

Yogi’s wife once asked him if he wanted to be buried or cremated. Yogi said, “let me think about it”. The next morning he went to his wife and said, “okay, I’ve thought about it. Surprise me.”.

 

YOU’RE SO NASHVILLE IF

Every year the Nashville Scene Magazine has their readers send in their “you’re so Nashville if”…observations. Here are 3 of my favorites from this year’s funny crop.

 

You’re plumber has a Grammy.

 

Your dental hygienist has her first country CD for sale at the dentist office.

 

Your recovery group has an open mic night. 

 

 PATRIOTIC


 

 I think I'm going to caption the above picture as "God Bless the USA".

 

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Man Loses Eye After Swatting Small Fly On His Forehead. (Note…never a good idea to use a cast iron skillet while doing such a thing)

 

TODAY
I’m sitting down with Kennedy Scott a talented young singer from North Carolina who I’ve written with a couple of times now.


 

 

And she’s bringing her friend Victoria Camp, an Alabama girl who I’ll meet and create with for the first time today. Victoria is becoming a new member of the trio “Three Times A Lady” along with Kennedy and Hannah Blaylock. Looking forward to getting to know her.


 

 

Have a great Tuesday!

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