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BILL BLOG Friday January 3, 2025   Friday morning and here comes the first weekend of the New Year. 42 for the high today but the forecast is showing we might get some rain and snow on Sunday. Nobody round here need that.   YESTERDAY I wrote with Thomm Jutz out at his house studio east of Nashville. Good stuff always seems to happen when I write with him. And yesterday was no exception. I brought a start to a song he liked, and we were finished in an hour I’d say and then recorded the song. Tom is such a tasty guitarist and he always makes anything I have mucho better.   And Thomm and I share the fact that we are both fast writers. As I packed up my guitar and walked out of the studio he joking said, “the only problem writing with you is that it takes SOOOO long.”    Good day of rhyming.   CHART Glad to see our song “ God Never Made A Mountain” by Kristy Cox , written with Andrea Pearson and Josh Shilling is still han...

BILL BLOG Thursday January 2, 2025   Thursday morning has rolled around and how was your New Year’s Day? Cold here this morning with the temperature sitting at just 26 at the start of today’s Blog. 46 will be the high.   YESTERDAY I did a little tweaking of a song with Casey Penn …a bluegrass artist from Arkansas and lyricist Brent Baxter who was online with us from his home in Missouri. Casey had a line or two in a song we had written a few months ago. So the three of us dug in virtually and worked to make the song stronger. She loved the change…so mission accomplished. This is a song about Casey’s Razorback home state that’s going to be on her next album she’s working on right now. So it was worth the effort to spend an hour on New Year’s Day working to make it better.     NEW YEAR’S PIGSKIN After that was done…it was College Football Playoff Bowl games the rest of the day. I think there’s still a bag of chips on the couch. The Texas...

BILL BLOG January 1, 2025   Wednesday…bring with it the very first day of a New Year. Time flies don’t it?   YESTERDAY A lazy New Year’s Eve day around the Whyte House. My wife and I called our daughter Heather over in Germany to wish her a Happy Birthday…yep a New Year’s Eve kid. She and her husband Casey were in a theme park in the Netherlands called “Efteling” to celebrate the occasion. The two of them took us there when we were over in Germany last year so in our minds at least…we could picture where they were at. More on the Germany trip at the end of today’s Blog in the “Looking Back” section.   TWEAKING I also spent a little time on the phone with producer-writer-singer Jerry Salley who is recording a song I helped write with my friend Andrea Pearson tweaking some lyrics of that song that young-talented bluegrass artist Caroline Owens is getting ready to record on her next album. Heck of an up-tempo tune and we wanted to make s...