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BILL BLOG Thursday, March 5, 2026   Thursday morning, be here. And it’s bringing sunshine with a 78 degree high to Nashville.   YESTERDAY With no appointments on my calendar, yesterday was a day of catching up on things. I did a little pre-work for a couple of “ Hits & Grins ” shows coming up. The first one is this Friday night in Huntsville at the Jim Parker Songwriter Series .     And then the following Saturday at Starstruck Farms in Lebanon, Tennessee.   Looking forward to both of those.   OLD FRIENDS I caught up with a couple of those yesterday. I got a text from my Grand Canyon Railway Train buddy, John Carpino . It was John who got me on the train two years, singing songs to the tourists as the train rolled to the south rim of the Grand Canyon and back to Williams, Arizona, each day. It was a blast.   Thank you, John, for that!   John let me know that he was interviewing another longtime friend of mine,...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, March 4, 2026   Wednesday, the first “Hump Day” in March.   A spring-like day on tap for sure with sunshine and a high of 76 in Nashville.   YESTERDAY I had the pleasure of writing something really fun yesterday with Andrea Pearson . A relationship idea that Andrea brought with her, and we had a blast chasing that idea into a new song. Andrea is a busy girl. Raising two young girls, constantly in the recording studio as she’s an in-demand background vocal singer in Nashville, writing songs, and performing. AND…she’s a heck of a painter as well, and is regularly commissioned to paint something like this. It occurred to us that, as long as we’ve been writing together, we have yet to do a show together, so she’s going to work on that. Stay tuned. Fun rhyming with her yesterday.   A LOSS I lost a dear friend yesterday in Joe Lewis, who was the morning radio announcer in Bowling Green, Missouri, at the radio station in a c...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, March 3, 2026   It’s Tuesday! And there’s a spring-like day ahead with the temperature getting up to 73 degrees with sunshine today.   YESTERDAY Mutt Cooper came to town from Georgia. Mutt served in the Army, and these days he’s a therapist for veterans who need help down at Fort Benning in Columbus, GA. And he’s one of the songwriters who sometimes joins our Freedom Sings USA organization that writes songs with our veterans.   And…he’s a songwriter and guitar picker, and pretty good “finger picker” at that.   Yesterday, the two of us wrote an up-tempo bluegrass-gospel song that was fun. It was good to see him.   A MUSICAL GIFT I opened my email yesterday and found a musical gift. It was the duo Dailey & Vincent singing a song I wrote with my friend Laura Leigh Jones that will be included on the new Dailey & Vincent album that will be out in a few months. And the boys just absolutely slayed our song. So g...

BILL BLOG Monday, February 2, 2026   Monday morning, and look…we’re into March already. And it certainly feels like Spring with temperatures going up. Just 62 for a high today in Nashville, but in the 70’s most of this week, with an 81 degree high predicted for Friday.   THE WEEKEND Mine started Friday morning with a songwriting session with Thomm Jutz and Caroline Owens at Thomm’s place.      The front of his property was stacked with timber as he got hit with that ice storm, like a lot of us. He and his wife apparently are pretty good with chainsaws, as they cut all the fallen trees and limbs and drag them to the front of the property so that the city can pick them up and do whatever they do with all the fallen trees in Music City right now.   Thomm had been to sold out Billy Strings arena concert the night before in town, where Billy sang a couple of songs that he and Thomm wrote, including “ Happy Hollow” . Billy is about as hot an artist...