BILL BLOG
Wednesday February 19, 2025
Wednesday morning in Nashville and I’m looking at a few inches of snow on the ground outside the windows. We won’t be getting out our road today for sure. 36 for a high today with a high of just 19 above Thursday. This snow won’t be melting for any time soon.
Yep. It's white outside the Whyte House today.
YESTERDAY
Spent another day resting and trying to get over whatever the name of the “crud” is that I have right now. LOTS of resting. At least the sore throat is gone, and now I’ve moved into the coughing and runny nose part of the cycle.
So, I’m taking pretty much everything to try and get over it.
Extra vitamin C, Elderberry, Mucinix, a Z Pak, Day and Night Quil and any other “Quil” I can get my hands on. Yep, I’m doing my part to keep the pharmaceutical business profitable.
If it were possible, I wish that when we get sick, we could just go to sleep and not wake up until we feel better. Tell someone to cancel all our appointments until then…and just doze off until we're better.
SONG OF THE DAY
I’m sharing the first major recording of a song I wrote in this town and it’s got a pretty good story behind it.
I was watching the Country Music Awards Show several years ago and they ran dancers out on the stage when Lee Ann Womack sang and then the same with Alan Jackson. I thought that was so stupid that I grabbed my guitar and wrote a verse and a chorus idea for a song.
The very next day I’m on Music Row visiting with a producer friend of mine Steve Ivey, who later went on to produce my first comedy song album “Off The Wall” that we recorded “live” at the Bluebird Café. We put this song that I’m talking about here on that album.
The rest of the story is that I had a copy of what I had written and played it for Steve who thought it was funny and asked me to leave that copy. I did…thinking nothing of it. The very next day he calls and says, “Bill, I think I got your song recorded” What?! The song wasn’t even finished yet.
But Steve walked it over to the offices of Cledus T. Judd and his producer Chris Clarke who were looking for songs at the time. The two of them wrote another verse and chorus and recorded “If George Strait Starts Dancing, Somebody Shoot Me In The Head” and put it on his “Cledus Envy” album.
Being lucky in this town every now and then is a very good thing.
HEALTH NOTES
Some doctors say a great combo to eat before bed is bananas and cinnamon. Heart healthy.
Experts say lung cancer is on the rise among non-smokers and the key culprit they say is air pollution.
Those who cruise a lot say that cinnarizine is the best thing to take from getting sea sick. The problem is that you can’t get it in the U.S. and Canada because it contains a calcium channel blocker.
SEASICK
For anyone that’s ever been seasick you know what an awful “sick” that is. First time I was on the ocean I booked a half day fishing charter out of St. Petersburg, Florida. My band was playing in Lakeland, Florida for two weeks and I had always wanted to go out on the ocean. And got big time sea sick after they spun the boat and then chopped up the bait. And a lot of folks were leaning over the rail like I was. That took the romance out of deep-sea fishing for me and I’ll never go again.
I’ve been on 3 ocean cruises since. And I was worried big time on the first one wondering if I’d get sick. I put a patch on my ear and took Dramamine and was fine. And that includes the cruise my wife and I was on the departed New Orleans during hurricane season. We woke up the first morning and the ship looked to be sailing sideways. HUGE waves. And most of the cruisers were sick with some getting off on the first island stop and flying back home. My wife and I somehow did not.
Dramamine and ear patches…I highly recommend using them if you’re in bouncy water folks.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
So literally, a turkey is tossing turkey.
BIG OLE’ ROCK
NASA now says there is a 2.6% chance that earth will get hit by a giant asteroid in the year 2032. The chances have increased a bit. They say 100 million of us will be living in what they call the “risk corridor”. I don't think this helmet is going to save me if I'm in the danged corridor.
BIN LADEN
A trailer was released for a new documentary on the hunt
for Osama Bin Laden. It will be on Netflix. And the trailer is pretty riveting.
Take a look at the TRAILER.
FUNNY HUSBAND TWEET
“It’s called the “Master Bedroom because that’s where my wife sleeps.”
GOOD IDEA
Two teenage brothers came up with the idea of the “Make It Like Mama” app. It allows users to video tape their family recipes made by Mama allowing them to save those cherished memories in one place.
Who doesn’t have a favorite family recipe or 3 they’d love to have on file somewhere?
My Mom made a great pink lemonade cake. I wouldn’t mind having that recipe on file. My wife’s Grandmother made the best chicken and dumplings ever. Those kind of family recipes should be on file to pass down to the next generation.
What a great idea by two young brothers Mach and Zach Mashaal from New York.
PAUL SIMON
After opening the SNL 50th Anniversary Show this past weekend singing “Homeward Bound” with Sabrina Carpenter to rave reviews, Paul Simon has decided to tour again at the age of 83. He retired from touring back in 2018. I grew up with the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel in my youth and have loved the Paul Simon solo albums through the years as well. Favorite Paul Simon song? Hard to pick one. But I’ll take “The Boxer”.
FINGER LICKIN’
Kentucky Fried Chicken is moving its corporate headquarters out of Kentucky and moving them to Plano, Texas which is just north of Dallas. So, is it really KENTUCKY fried chicken from now on? Texas Fried Chicken anyone? That just sees so weird.
Will the Colonel be replaced with a Cowboy?
I don’t know. But I do know that I have a song “If You Can’t Stand The Heat” that uses the word “finger-licking” in a creative way. Check out the song recorded by Jenny Tolman that I wrote with her and her husband-producer Dave Brainard.
HEY LORETTA
Coming soon to Broadway will be Loretta Lynn’s life turned into a musical. Wonder why it took so long to turn the Coal Miners Daughter story into a musical? Great idea. Talk about a great from nothing to something story. It gives inspiration to anyone reaching for their dream to come true. Hard not to love Loretta Lynn.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Man Kills Himself Then Runs Away. (Was the guy’s last name Copperfield by chance?)
TODAY
One more day of resting up. This cold I’m suffering with is bad enough that I cancelled every appointment this week that I had. I’ve had a daily appointment with the medicine cabinet and bed instead. Hoping to turn the corner some today.
Have a great Wednesday!
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