BILL BLOG
Friday September 6, 2024
And good morning from Marion, Illinois where today’s high will be a comfortable 84 degrees with sun.
YESTERDAY
I made about a 3 hour drive from Nashville to Marion, Illinois…population 18,000 so nestled in southern Illinois. I’m here for a three day songwriter retreat with Freedom Sings USA.
Last night our group of songwriters were treated to dinner by our great hosts here and then we played a songwriters round show in a beautiful old church.
Everything about the evening was great. The Mayor came and spoke, veterans and their families came and some of those will be the veterans that we write with here today in Marion.
Saturday evening in downtown Marion we’ll play an outdoors concert where all the songs written will be performed alongside the veterans that we’ve written with to honor them.
The weather is going to be great…maybe even light jacket weather evening Saturday with a high in the 70’s that day with a low of 46 Saturday night. It is free and open to the public and you can tell from the passion and the hard work that the organizers have put in that this could really be a memorable evening. Come if you can.
A good first day that ended with a cold one while watching some of the Kansas City Chiefs-Baltimore Ravens football game with our group.
SONG OF THE DAY
Today I’m choosing the song “Never Been In Love” by Lauren Mascitti the former American Idol star. I wrote this song with Lauren…an idea that I’d had in my book for a while, and the two of us sat down and wrote it with another friend Wil Nance. Lauren recorded it on her first album “God Made A Woman” that was mentioned as one of the best “new” country albums that came out that year. Thank you Lauren for recording it
SPEAKING OF SONGS
Check out a little bit of “If It Ain’t One Beer” from Brady Seals, a song the two of us wrote several years ago that Brady just released along with several other songs we co-wrote through the years. This one is just plain fun to listen to and Brady just got it to a major country artist. Here’s hoping that we might get lucky and that the artist might fall in love with it as much as we love this song.
The album full of those songs on Brady's website.
HEALTH NOTES
Researchers are now saying that exposure to bright outside lights at night could increase you odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease more than other risk factors, especially for young people.
UK researchers claim that hypertonic saline nasal drops can shorten a kid’s cold by two days and reduce the risk of family members getting sick too.
17 million US adults could be getting bad blood pressure reads at home because of at-home kits that aren’t fitted correctly. This info from John Hopkins University saying the biggest culprit are cuffs that don’t fit correctly.
TWEET FROM A DAD
“This is a great weekend to clean out the garage, according to my wife and other people who won’t be cleaning the garage.” File that one under the dreaded Honey-Do list.
DANCE-NO TWERK
In Nashville we actually have a Christian Nightclub where you can go and worship AND dance if you’d like. However, they will not allow any twerking. Pretty sure “twerking” falls under the old “Thou Shalt Not” list.
HALLOWEEN
Halloween has become such a HUGE holiday that folks are already buying their costumes. Hottest costumes for 2024 will include Glinda from the Wizard of Oz, Beetlejuice, and a Ghostbusters costume to name a few. Me? I’m not a Halloween guy. Takes a lot to get me into a costume…a lot.
And not everyone should even try and costume up for Halloween.
Just saying.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
13-Foot Python Relocated To Zoo After Owner Admits It Was Getting To Big To Handle. Ya think? That’s something you never hear from a gerbil owner.
TODAY
I’m off to write with a veteran this morning. Always a great experience. Back
home on Sunday in time for the first full Sunday of NFL football. And if last night’s
Chiefs-Ravens game is an example of what’s to come? It’s going to be an
exciting year of football.
Have a great weekend!
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