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Friday October 10, 2025

 

And the weekend has arrived. It’s Friday…with a road trip ahead. The temperatures are down these days. We’ll have a high of 76 in Nashville for this Friday.

 

YESTERDAY

I was a guest on WJLI, a radio station in Shelbyville, Tennessee, on a show hosted by my friend Joe Rucker once a week. Shelbyville is about an hour and 40 minutes from the house, so it took me a bit to get there. But the drive took me through some beautiful Tennessee countryside. Much of that countryside was large estates, beautiful properties which meant one thing to me. These folks ain’t songwriters!



 

WJLI reminded me of my first radio station, KPCR in Bowling Green, Missouri. When I walked in, the “Swap Shop” was on the air. Small wattage radio stations like these are treasures. Many have been swallowed up by corporate radio. But some still exist, just like the one where I learned the craft of radio and was blessed to do so. Swap Shop, the farm report, High School football games, heck, we even had a sponsor for the obituaries every morning.



 

I sat with Joe for 45 minutes and we talked about radio, songwriting, and more. Joe brought his guitar and kicked off the show singing the old Ferlin Husky classic, “Wings of a Dove”. Now THAT’S small market radio with charm. I enjoyed every minute of it last night. Thanks for having me Joe.


 

 

And if you like to listen?  Here’s THAT INTERVIEW.

 

ONE MORE PARROT HEAD SHOW

I added yet one more show for this year’s “MOTM”, the big Parrot Head festival in Gulf Shores coming up October 22-26. That date is Saturday, October 26. I’ll be on stage with my Trop Rock buddy Kelly McGuire for his annual songwriter series. Troy always has a great band on stage with him, so it will be fun playing a set in my shorts and flip-flops with those guys again. 


 


 

ONE MORE TEASE

This is a fun short VIDEO of Katrina Burgoyne once again having fun and drawing attention to our song “Stones” that we co-wrote that is currently here new single. Check it out.



 

TELLURIDE

And then one more FUN TEASE of the song “Telluride” from Caroline Owens that I wrote with Andrea Pearson. This is Caroline having real fun with our song WHILE she's applying makeup. 


 


 

SONG OF THE DAY

I’m going to make it this fun song from Gerald Smith, “To The Grave”…a song we wrote several years ago that Gerald recorded and put on his album "Out Standing In His Field” that is full of funny songs.



 

Gerald is better known as the “Georgia Quacker”. He was the guy who did all those duck sounds whenever that duck would walk across the bottom of your TV screen when Hee Haw was on back in the day. The song is all about things you might have done in your life that you’ll NEVER tell anyone about. I’ve got a few of those…how about you?


 HEALTH NOTES

According to health data from more than 9 million adults in South Korea and the US, nearly everyone who develops heart disease and suffers a major cardiovascular event has one of four major risk factors in the lead-up. High cholesterol, high blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, and smoking.

 

Did you know Switzerland’s life expectancy is 84, while it’s only 78 in America? (So, when I reach 78, can I move to Geneva and have six more years added on?)

 

Ohio just banned THC-containing beverages, gummies, and other intoxicating hemp. Those products are known to have significant impacts on young, developing brains.

 

HERE’S YOUR SIGN



If nothing else, is spices up the laundry room for sure.

 

HELLO BIG BOY

Here in Nashville, a Mom gave birth to a record-size baby boy that came into the world weighing 12 pounds and 14 ounces! Wow. Both Mom and the boy are doing great. She named her baby boy “Cassian”. I might have named him “Ouch”.



 

WHERE DID MY CAR GO?

In Virginia, a woman comes home to find that her driveway is blocked with 15 or more cars. There was a party next door, and a bunch of teenagers chose to use her driveway to park their rides. Turns out that the homeowner works for a towing company.

 

I believe if you look up the word “karma” in the dictionary? THAT would be the definition.

 

STOLEN SKELETON

Some guys drove up to a family's yard and took down their 13-foot Jack Skellington animatronic figure, tied it to the top of their car, and drove off with it.



 

Must have been an interesting dispatch that went out to the police. “Be on the lookout for a giant skeleton”.  

 

TODAY’S QUOTE

From Victoria Wood:

Sexual harassment at work…is it a problem for the self-employed?

 

TODAY

I’m on the road to Huntsville, Alabama, for a weekend with Freedom Sings USA, writing songs once again with veterans. Tonight, we’ll have a little songwriter show, along with a “meet and greet” where we’ll meet the veterans we’ll be working with. Then tomorrow, each songwriter will sit with one of those vets and pen their story into a song, followed by a concert late tomorrow afternoon, before we return home to Nashville.



 

Have a great weekend!

 





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