BILL BLOG
Friday November 21, 2025
Friday morning…and here comes the weekend. Some fog and rain this morning in Nashville. The high will be 68 today.
YESTERDAY
I wrote with my friend Angus Gill, who moved over from Australia a few months ago. After years of writing with him online when he lived “down under”, it’s fun to sit face to face with him and create music. There is not much doubt that this young man is going places in the music business. He can produce, play multiple instruments, sing, and he’s a book author, and on and on it goes with his talents. Plus, he’s always fun to be around.
Yesterday, we took a song we had already written for a “male” and rewrote a couple of those verses to make it a female artist, and that’s because a female artist already loves the song and wants to record it. It was time well spent, as we made that change and sent the artist the new version.
Fun session.
CANCELED SHOW
The show scheduled for tonight with my “Hits & Grins” trio that includes Steve Dean and Victoria Venier at Starstruck Farms in Lebanon, TN, was rescheduled yesterday. The new date will be sometime in the middle of January. I’ll be able to announce the new date within a few days.
My next show will be a run to Virginia with Linda Davis & Lang Scott. Saturday evening, December 6, we will be at the Valley Bible Church in Stephens City for the “Faith, Love, and Laughter” concert…our third time playing this concert series.
Then the following night, Sunday, December 7, we’re at the historic Wayne Theatre in Waynesboro, Virginia, for a 7 pm concert.
FUNNY SONG
A few months ago, I helped one of my best friends, Brent Burns, check something off his bucket list. He had never played at the world Bluebird Café before, and I was fortunate to put him into a songwriter show one evening with my friends Victoria Venier and Steve Dean. Every songwriter aspires to play at the “Bird” at least once in their life. And Brent drove up from Gulf Shores, and we had a “magical” night. This is a fun moment from that night featuring Brent singing his song, “Dead People’s Clothes”.
SONG OF THE DAY
This is a song that Ayla Brown and her husband, Rob Bellamy, recorded that we wrote together that landed on their last album titled “Nothing Gonna Stop Me”. The two were not married at the time we wrote this song, but these days they are not only married, by they are raising a little boy out east near Boston, where both of them are from, and are now playing lots of shows in that region. Rob was a hockey player for Maine, then later played AAA hockey, and Ayla played basketball for Boston College. I’m happy that we had a chance to write so many songs when they lived here in Nashville.
STYLING
My daughter Heather is into the movie Wicked. Part 2 is in theaters today, and she’ll be watching it in a theater in Germany. She was so inspired by the movie that she created this.
Inspired by "Glinda"...the good witch.
Pretty cool.
HEALTH NOTES
There is evidence that low-level alcohol use can provide some protection from cardiovascular disease. The bad news is that it also increases the risk of cancer. And in the UK, they’ve put together a list of the “healthiest” beers to drink. #1? Guinness.
Dolly Parton had to cancel another event due to some ongoing health issues. She announced that she is “taking it easy”.
A study claims that you can lose weight by eating 45 grams of walnuts a day. (No wonder squirrels are so doggone skinny)
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
Nope, you can’t make me tell you which direction I went.
MILLENNIALS
An article I read this morning claims that 69% of millennials say they can’t retire or buy a home without an inheritance. Kind of hard to believe isn’t it? It may be the reason some millennials still live with their parents. And that must be what my friend Brent Burns was thinking when he wrote the song, “Please Don’t Let That Kid Move Back Home.”
BIG NEWS IN NASHVILLE
Jellyroll shaved his face for the first time in 10 years.
Slow news day in Music City y’all.
THE FAB FOUR
A new Beatles movie biopic is on the way, produced by Sam Mendes. These are the actors portraying the Beatles.
Paul Mescal plays Paul, Harrison Dickinson has the role of John Lennon, Barry Keoghan is Ringo, and Joseph Quinn plays George Harrison. The biopic is scheduled for release in 2028. There are 4 parts to this biopic.
I was slow to catch onto the Beatles. In college, I had a country band and listened to Cash, Haggard, Jones, and not the Beatles. But my dorm buddies were musicians too, and it was hard not to constantly hear the Beatles being played in dorm rooms.
And then later I became friends with Steve Dean, who plays in my “Hits & Grins” trio, who knows EVERYTHING about the Beatles. An expert. And he’s collected a lot of memorabilia through the years. I had a month to spend on the beach one Fall, and Steve gave me this book to read.
There’s not much left out in this book. And I learned a lot, and in the process became a much bigger fan. It breaks down how several of their hits came to be. How they were recorded, things I didn’t know. And when I would read a section like that, I would put the book down, and find that song and listen to it. It was like hearing a brand new song after reading the info behind the recording of those songs.
If you’re a fan or curious about the Beatles, that would be the book to read.
QUOTE
From Steve Martin:
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night”.
TODAY
Since my show tonight with “Hits and Grins” was rescheduled, I got a day to figure out what I’m going to do with the day. Way too much pressure.
Have a great weekend!
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