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Thursday October 16, 2025 

 

Thursday morning, and the Blog is a little late today as I’m on the road to Port St. Joe, Florida.

 

YESTERDAY

I had such fun writing with Stuie French and Alex Miller. We finished up a very “fun” idea we started a few months ago. These two guys are great guitar players, and the song will have a lot of “playing” with six-string guitars in it. So, I was in the right room with the right guys for this tune. Here’s an EXAMPLE of Stuie French’s playing alongside his talented son Sonny.


 


 Stuie is part of the talented French Family Band who will release a new album at the first of the year that I’m already blessed to have a couple of songs on. But I would not be too surprised to see them add this fun song.

 

Just a great way to spend part of a Wednesday with those two. 


 

 

SONG OF THE DAY

Since I wrote with Alex yesterday, I’m going to share this fun duet again from Alex and Emily Ann Roberts,  “More Country Than You,” that we wrote together. I had the idea, as I thought a duet between them could be great fun. Boy, was I right. They both have great personalities, and that showed up in the many videos they made promoting this song that my friend Jerry Salley produced on Billy Blue Records.

 

HERE’S YOUR SIGN



 

Choose carefully.

 

CATS

How about the family that starts on a road trip? They drive 100 miles, stop for gas, and see their cat clinging to the top of the roof of the car! I’ve heard stories of coffee cups left on car roofs, dirty diapers, a wedding ring…but a cat? They really do have 9 lives!



 

JOKE

A man walks into a bar in the south, and the bartender asks, “Do you have any ID?” The man replies, “About what?”

 

TODAY’S QUOTE

From Will Rogers:

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

 

TODAY

I’m on the road to beautiful Port St. Joe, Florida, for the Blast On The Bay Songwriters Festival.



 

Tonight, there will be a VIP party on the sand with a shrimp boil and “live” music, and then the music starts tomorrow and runs through Sunday. I’ll be playing three songwriter shows this year. Looking forward to it.

 

Have a great Thursday!

 

 

 

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