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BILL BLOG Tuesday, October 19, 2026 Good morning from beautiful Gulf Shores, Alabama where the high temperature will be a perfect 74 degrees. Postcard like weather here on the Gulf.  CATCHING UP My computer crashed when I was in Port St. Joe for the Blast on the Bay Songwriters Festival this past weekend, but my friend Brent Burns, whom I'm staying with has loaned me his for the next cople of days. So, here's the short version highlights.  I played three great songwriter shows, big crowds at all of them.   This is one of my very favorite festivals to play every year. I had great shows with a lot of really great songwriter friends, and made some new friends with other writers that were in one of my rounds.  Sunday was my last of the three shows, and as I walked to my car to load up my guitar, this bad boy showed up. Fortunately he was not hungry for songwriter, so I managed to sneak the guitar into my car and go before he got any ideas. Thank you to Lynn Marshall...

 No blog all week as my computer crashed. I just wrapped up 4 great days at the Blast on the Bay Songwriters Festival where the last thing I saw was a big ole black bear near my car.  I’m now headed over to Gulf Shores for the big Parrot Head Festival MOTM for the week. Have a great Monday!

 No blog this morning. I’m in Port St Joe, Florida for the “Blast on the Bay” songwriters festival and my faithful laptop computer has crashed on me.  I’ll be looking for a computer shop today. Have a great weekend!

BILL BLOG Thursday October 15, 2026   And a good Thursday morning to you. Up to 89 degrees in Nashville today. I read that the weather experts are predicting a warm winter for Music City this year. I’ll take it, after being without power for a week last winter after that ice storm hit. I’m hoping their prediction is accurate.   YESTERDAY Thursday was all about tying up loose ends before packing for this trip I’m on right now to Port St. Joe. It’s about a 7-hour drive to get there, and I’m losing an hour as they are on Eastern time. I’m certainly happy to be returning to this great songwriter festival. Here's my schedule.     CONGRATS To my friends the French Family Band who just won the “Thumbpickers Award” for Best Album of the Year,” titled “ Huon to Hickory, ” that I have three songs on.    That Hall of Fame was established to honor great “thumbpicking” artists like Merle Travis, Chet Atkins and others.     Both S...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, October 14, 2026    Another “Hump Day” is on us. It’s Wednesday. It will be warm again today before the temperature drops into the 60’s this weekend. Today’s high in Nashville will be 91.   YESTERDAY What a fun writing session with Lee Black , and Lauren Mascitti . Lee walked in with an idea for a song about WD40 and Duct Tape. And that turned out to be the title of the tune we wrote.   The idea being that there’s not much that those two things can’t fix, except for a broken heart.   North Chapel Publishing was full of songwriters yesterday including Spencer and Connor Hatcher who I write with a lot.   Brent Baxter was in town from Arkansas, and he was in the building as well. Brent co-wrote the Joe Nichols song “ Crickets ” with me and Lisa Shaffer.   And I met the winner of “ The Road” TV show talent contest hosted by Gretchen Wilson with judges Blake Shelton, and Keith Urban . His name is Adam San...