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Wednesday June 11, 2025

 

Hump Day Wednesday is on us. Sunny with a high of 86 in Nashville today.

 

YESTERDAY

I finished up yet another news song idea that Alex Miller had. Really great country song idea. It’s pretty much always a “country” song if it has the word “Dallas” in it…and this one does. It’s certainly a song we feel good about having in the catalog, as it will be highly “pitchable” for traditional country artists. So, we’re going to start pitching this one right away. Alex is friends with more than one traditional country artist, including Tracy Byrd from Beaumont, Texas, who is on the new single “The Byrd” with Alex. I have a feeling that at the very least, it could be something that Tracy listens to. Time will tell, as always, with songs that are looking for homes.


 

 

THE ROAD AHEAD

Here’s my schedule of shows through July. Hope to see some of you at one of these.

 

Next week. June 17 & 18 in Heyworth, Illinois with Freedom Sings USA writing with veterans.



 

June 25 at the Bluebird Café in Nashville with friends and songwriters Jimmy Fortune, Wil Nance & Brian White.



 

July 5 in Louisiana, Missouri at Riverfront Park for a 4th of July celebration.



 

July 6 in Stoutsville, Missouri, at the Florida Resort & Winery.



 

July 8 at the Listening Room Café in Nashville with songwriters Ben Klick, Alex Miller, and Sean McNamara.



 

For more information on any of these shows just to to the TOUR section here on my website.

 

SONG OF THE DAY

Today’s song is a beach song written with Pensacola native Jessie Ritter. It was the first song we wrote together one day in Nashville. The song is called “Take Me There”…and if you hit the link, you can watch and hear Jessie sing our song from an appropriate place, “The Flora-Bama” down in Perdido Key, the area this song was written about. She gets the crowd singing along with her. 


 

 

HEALTH NOTES

Some doctors are saying that “ditching” your lawnmower might be a good idea. Mowing, raking, digging, and lifting can be physically taxing. Back pain, muscle strains, and joint injuries happen.

 

A rare type of cancer is growing among millennials and members of Generation X, new research shows. Diagnoses of appendix cancer have tripled in the U.S. for people born between 1976 and 1984.

 

Research says making music boosts brain and mental health. (And just when I thought that Karaoke might finally die.)

 

HERE’S YOUR SIGN



 Yep, there’s no couch to lie on either.

 

BASEBALL STADIUMS

I’m always interested in reading sports columns that rank the best Major League baseball parks in the country. I’ve sat in most of them, so it’s fun for me to compare my likes to whomever is making up their list.

 

The online publication Sportsnaut.com listed their Top 10 Best Stadium Experiences. In reverse order those would be:

 

10 Kansas City

9 Yankee Stadium

8 Seattle

7 Busch Stadium St. Louis

6 Dodger Stadium LA

5 Petco in San Diego

4 Pittsburgh

3 Wrigley in Chicago

2 Fenway in Boston

 

And they list their “best stadium experience…San Francisco’s ballpark.



 

I’ve not seen Frisco’s ballpark that sits right on the water, but I would agree with a lot of the choices here. The old ones are still my favorite. Wrigley and Fenway.

 

And I know I’m very biased, but my Cincinnati Reds Ballpark, Great American Ballpark, is always way down the list of favorites.  I was just there this weekend. Buy a ticket on the second level where you get to see the game unfold beneath you, and you get to see the view of Northern Kentucky, as well as being able to watch the boats come down the Ohio River. Hard to beat.



 Did I mention I’m biased?

 

QUEEN PIGEON

In NYC, they are holding the first-ever Pigeon Impersonation Pageant.



 Uh huh. All I ask is that they keep the contestants away from my car.

 

HARRY POTTER

HBO is getting ready to release a new series on the Harry Potter movies. This will be a TV series. Here’s your new Harry.



 

And this is the choice for Hermione



 

And for Ron Weasley…



 

Actor John Lithgow will play the role of Albus Dumbledore.



 Muggles, Hogwarts, and wands are all coming back to the tube.

 

BEER KISSES

How about this? “Blue Moon Beer” is offering up lip gloss.



 I can’t wait for the Guinness underarm deodorant.

 

TODAY’S HEADLINE

I Was Mugged By A Parrot. (And the parrot would NOT keep quiet about it)

 

TODAY

I’ll be out at Wil Nance’s little writing shack today, writing with him and our mutual friend Lauren Mascitti.

 

Wil is going to be part of my Bluebird Café songwriter round on June 25, along with songwriters Brian White and Jimmy Fortune at 9 pm that evening.


 


And Lauren will be joining both Wil and me at this year’s Gatlinburg Songwriters Festival on August 15 and 16. 


 

 

Have a great Wednesday!

 

 

 

 

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