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BILL BLOG Monday September 30, 2024   Monday morning…back home in Nashville for just a couple of days before re-packing bags for a Gulf Coast trip. Sunny with a high of just 76 here in Nashville today. Perfect.   It’s been a fun filled couple of shows on the road over this weekend…lots to share.   THE WEEKEND Friday night I was in Woodlands, Texas with Linda Davis and Lang Scott to play Dosey Doe’s for the second time. What a cool venue.   We had a bunch of Aggie fans there in the house, many of them Linda’s family and friends as she’s a Texas girl and they turned out for one of their own as they always do. And we had a great opening act in Delaney Ann who’s a Texas native as well. In fact Linda invited Delaney up to sing her #1 smash with Reba “Does He Love You” with her.   It was a dinner show…and the food was awesome and the management gifted us with their signature Dosey Doe coffee which is so good. And yesterday was National Coffee Day…so

BILL BLOG Friday September 27, 2024   And a good Friday morning to you from Texas.   YESTERDAY We drove across a big part of Tennessee, all of Arkansas and into east Texas. We being Linda Davis , Lang Scott and myself. Along the way we noticed this charming motel.   I’m not sure if that’s their approval rating, or the cost per night…but we decided not to book a room and kept going to Texas. Carthage, Texas actually where Linda grew up, and where the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame is located that Linda is a member of.     And I found out some great news during our trip. Next year Linda will become part of the “Walk of Fame”   here in Carthage, Texas. This is what it will look like as this is a picture of someone from Carthage who's already been honored. How cool is that?! Congrats Linda.   I keep hoping that my hometown of Montgomery City will name a pothole after me…but that’s another story.   We had a great dinner at a place called

BILL BLOG Thursday September 26, 2024   And a good early Thursday morning to you. I’m headed for the Lone Star state this morning at the crack of dark. So a bit of a shorter blog this morning.   All good thoughts to those affected this morning on the Florida coast, Georgia and elsewhere. Nothing good about that kind of flooding and high winds in a Category 4 hurricane. Officials are bracing for unprecedented damage there. There’s not enough sandbags in the world to hold back a 20 foot storm surge.   YESTERDAY It was a day partly spent adding some possible new shows in 2025 which is already getting pretty busy. 4 new Freedom Sings USA songwriting retreats have already been added and I’m looking to add as many as 3 shows with my funny friend Juanita Smith from Mobile, Alabama.   Two of those look to be in Mobile, and one in Foley, Alabama. I’m waiting for confirmations before posting them on my tour calendar.   And it looks like I’ll play the Grand

BILL BLOG Wednesday October 25, 2024 Wednesday, another “hump day” to get over. And it’s another packing day for a road trip to Texas early tomorrow morning. More on that at the end of today’s Blog. 77 for the high today in Nashville.   YESTERDAY I got some good from a co-writer in Arkansas Brent Baxter when he texted me to let me know a southern-gospel group named Mid-South Boys have just recorded a song that he and I wrote with another friend Nathan Woodward. The song is titled “ Thank God ”. The three of us wrote it from an idea I had one day at my publishing company in Nashville a couple of years or more ago…and Brent found a home for it.     So thank you to Brent…and thank you to the group for loving our song.   HELENE I also spent some time tracking ole “Helene” coming ashore it looks like in the Tallahassee area of Florida. And the word right now seems to be that it could turn into a major one with big storm surges along coast lines. Geez. It’s a state of emerg