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Bluebird Thursday...Gulf of Eggs...Getting The Trio Together

BILL BLOG

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

 

Tuesday morning and I’m listening to rain pound the roof. 50 for a high today with rain predicted for the next few days in Music City.

 

YESTERDAY

It was a pretty lazy Monday at the Whyte House. With my songwriting appointment cancelled it opened up the day to pitch a few new songs to a couple of artists who are looking for tunes right now. And I spent a little time practicing songs to sing at the sold-out Bluebird Café songwriter show this Thursday evening with Barry and Will Hutchens (Father & Son) who are both writer singers from Virginia, and Laura Leigh Jones who’s a terrific bluegrass artist-writer who now lives in North Carolina.



 

This is the second time Barry asked me join him at the Bluebird and I appreciate him asking again.



 

I look forward to joining him and his talented song Will at the Bird.



 

Our songwriter round starts at 6 pm this Thursday evening.



 

 SONG OF THE DAY

Today it’s “Bring It On” by the former duo Watson-Nash that I wrote with Shay Watson and Joe Nash. Appropriate on the heels of the Super Bowl being over. It’s a sports-fight-song if you will that rocks. Check it out.



 

HEALTH NOTES

Studies are showing that those who are more “flexible” live longer lives. It also helps lower one’s blood pressure.  (Note to self: start touching your toes or practice doing the downward dog)



 

Flu season has now soared to a 15 year high. Lots of it going around.

 

And now alfalfa sprouts are being recalled because of listeria concerns. (I don't graze at dinner time so I think I'm good.)

 

SIGN



 

Please don’t stop y’all!

 

MORE SUPERBOWL STUFF

Yesterday I posted that I agreed with the Ad Meter folks that voted the Budweiser Clydesdale commercial as the best to be aired during the Superbowl coverage. But I missed the Harrison Ford commercial for Jeep. This one would be in my top 2 or 3 for sure. Just his line when he says, “even though my name is FORD” makes it worthy for being one of the best.



 

EGGS

And now some stores like Costco and Trader Joe’s have put a limit of one carton of eggs because the shortage. Some Kroger stores are doing the same. That news makes this meme pretty funny. Especially with Valentine Day coming up.


 


 

GOOGLE MAPS

Yep…if you pull up Google Maps you’ll see this.



 

Already, some folks are proposing yet another name change for the Gulf of Mexico.



 

AI

How much money is in artificial intelligence?  Consider that Elon Musk offered 974 BILLION dollars to Sam Altman for control of AI. And Sam Altman said “no thanks”. Wow.

 

And AI surely looks to be part of our future. Check this out. My friend Lang Scott shared this with me yesterday. Someone chose a voice to use with a picture of Albert Einstein and then Einstein starts talking. It’s going to be VERY hard to know what’s real and what’s not in the future. Check out this VIDEO of old Albert.

 

Look for AI newscasts in the future and try to determine what’s real and accurate. Roger Ailes of Fox once said, “People don’t want to be informed, they want to FEEL like they’re being informed.” One man’s truth is another man’s fake news. And so it goes.

 

NOT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY

There was a nationwide outage in Sri Lanka recently. Guess what caused it?



 

Yep…a monkey up in the electrical grid. Just your normal everyday occurrence.

 

MOVING TO

The top 4 cities right now with soaring real estate prices?  Atlanta, Raleigh, Charlotte and Dallas. And folks are moving there in bigger and bigger numbers.

 

Hard to find affordable real estate these days. Try making a bid on a house in Minot, North Dakota in January. That might work.

 

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Animal-Rights Group To Hold Meeting At Steakhouse. (Alrighty then)

 

TODAY

I get to sit with two of my favorite writer folks today. Jimmy Fortune, Sydni Perry and I are gathering at Jimmy’s house today to write a new song. I’ve not seen either for a bit as both are as busy or busier than me. Jimmy had a big new project he just filmed and recorded for the Gaither Family that I’ll find out more about today…and Sydni is still out on the road singing and playing fiddle for Carrie Underwood.


 

 

There’s great chemistry it seems every time the three of get together and it’s always fun. Check out this VIDEO where the three of us sing the great Alison Krauss hit “Ghost in This House” featuring Sydni singing the lead and me and Jimmy chiming in with harmony that we filmed on day after a writing session at Jimmy’s place. Looking forward to seeing both.


 

 

Have a great Tuesday!


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