BILL BLOG
Tuesday July 22, 2025
Hello Tuesday. We’ve got a heat dome over Tennessee. Several other states as well. In fact, some health officials are warning us to NOT go out in the sun in 18 different states.
92 degrees under the heat dome in Nashville today.
YESTERDAY
I wrote a fun up-tempo bluegrass song with Kevin Williamson of the Williamson Branch Family Band. Kevin, 4 talented daughters, and his wife Debbie. Every one of them is musically talented. Here’s an example of what they do in this remake of the Glen Campbell hit “Southern Nights” that they recorded.
I brought an idea about how you have to remind yourself that you can’t work all of the time. You have to take time to spend time having a little fun, and having some of that fun with the ones you love…like your kids.
I think the song was inspired by memories of my Dad, who worked very hard, but always took time to throw me and my brothers into the truck to go fishing…or to softball games.
The chorus of our new song is:
He’d say you can work all day puttin’ up hay
And there’ll still be work to be done
So take a little time, cast a fishing line
Have yourself a little bit of fun
Thanks for always making time Dad.
SPEAKING OF KIDS
My daughter Heather sent me this from Germany yesterday, a delayed Father’s day gift.
That’s the baseball cap of the Mainz A’s Baseball Team over in Germany that my daughter and her husband Casey follow over there. I spent time taking my daughter to the baseball park, and she got hooked on the game like I did.
So, this is kind of a full circle story today about making time for your kids. I hope you make time for yours as well.
SONG OF THE DAY
Tonight I’m playing a “Trop-Rock” kind of show as musical guest of my friend Lauren Mascitti. More on that at the end of the Blog today.
This is the song I’m singing with the band tonight, “Don’t Come Knockin’ If The Tiki Hut Is Rockin” which was the Trop Rock Song of the Year that I wrote with Brent Burns a few years ago. It’s going to be a lot of fun singing this song with a full band tonight.
HEALTH NOTES
Cardiologists are warning those with high cholesterol to not overlook saturated fat consumption. There is a significant increase in heart disease risk with high consumption of saturated fats.
Several studies confirm that owning a dog helps relieve stress.
A man with the deadliest form of brain cancer has no signs of the disease after taking an experimental drug. 40-year-old Ben Trotman was diagnosed in 2022 with glioblastoma. Patients typically live an average of 15 months after that diagnosis. He received a medication called ipilimumab, and it worked. He was the only person in that clinical trial.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
Yea!!!
EXPENSIVE BURGERS
Beef prices are soaring. Up 9% since January. Shrinking herds, droughts, and feed costs are all being blamed. If this keeps up I’ll be grilling Tofu and eating more “Impossible Burgers” at Burger King. Or maybe these…
SPEAKING OF MEAT
In order to eat a healthier breakfast, I eat a lot of turkey bacon. The question is, is it bacon if it has turkey in it? I know farmers “slop the hogs”…but do they “slop the turkeys” as well? These are the questions that keep me up at night.
FUNNY MARRIAGE QUOTE
This one from comedian Jim Gaffigan, who says, “My wife had us register for fine china, because you never know when the Pope is going to swing by and want a microwaved hot dog on a $200 plate".
AWKWARD
Ever take an awkward family photo? The kind you take out in the yard and burn, or bury in a drawer somewhere, hoping it never gets out to the public? I blame Olan Mills for a lot of those.
If so, don’t worry. However awkward yours might be, you can’t top this one.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
My Mother Missed Her Own Funeral. (Don’t you hate it when that happens?)
TODAY
I’m off to write with the great Jimmy Fortune today. Such a treat…always. Jimmy was part of my songwriter round just a few weeks ago at the world-famous Bluebird Café, and he just killed the audience every time he sang.
Here’s one of those moments when he sang his patriotic song “More Than A Name On A Wall” that the Statler Brothers recorded when he was their high tenor singer. Hard following that guy in a songwriter round. Geez. Watch the video and see Jimmy bring the house down with that great song he wrote.
Tonight I’ll be a guest for Lauren Mascitti’s EP Release party for her first-ever tropical project.
I’ll be one of several guests who get up with the band to sing a Trop-Rock kind of song. The Margarita blenders should be working overtime tonight.
Have a great Tuesday!
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