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BILL BLOG Wednesday, July 29, 2026   Hump Day, Wednesday, has arrived with more heat. A high of 90 in Nashville today.   YESTERDAY With my writing appointment rescheduled, my day was open. And that meant my lovely wife Kathy found something for me to do. She’s good at that. So we wound up picking up a couple of pieces of furniture to CARRY into the house.   Remind me to never let someone cancel their songwriting session with me. Plus, it was 95 or higher, and that’s without the heat index. Sigh.   I keep telling my wife I’m good with the furniture we bought back in 1912, but she won’t listen.   A husband once said, “ When we got married, I said I’d move mountains for you…I never said anything about a sofa! ”   THE BLUEBIRD A reminder that tickets for my Bluebird songwriter round next Wednesday night, August 5, with Mo Pitney , Wil Nance , and Brady Seals go on sale at 9 AM this morning Central Time. Be quick on the phone as all...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, July 28, 2026   A warm Tuesday has arrived. The heat is going to peak today at 95 before temperatures go back into the 80’s in Nashville.   YESTERDAY I wrote a new song with Bill DiLuigi at my publishing company yesterday morning, from an idea he brought. Because I write for a company that has a bluegrass record label, oftentimes my co-writers will come in the building with their own bluegrass idea.     Bill’s song had a reference to rails and trains, and a girl leaving the guy. Yep, sounded like a bluegrass idea to me, and that’s what Mr. DiLuigi and I wrote.   Now all we have to do is find some bluegrass artist to record it. Simple!   SONG OF THE DAY Speaking of trains and bluegrass songs. I’ve written a few with that kind of theme. Most notably this song, “ Train ,” that was recorded by bluegrass artist Kristy Cox . But before that, one of my co-writers recorded a great version of it on her album of that song...

BILL BLOG Monday, July 27, 2026   And the last Monday of July is on us…already! We had a little storm roll through last night, and today it warms up to 92 in Nashville.   And the heat is ramping up even higher. 100 million Americans are under heat alerts.   Our daughter and son-in-law now live in Yuma, Arizona, where it was 109 yesterday, and this coming Friday the expected high is 114 degrees!   THE WEEKEND Saturday, my wife Kathy and I made a trip to Eaton, Indiana, which is just north of Muncie. Some friends of ours were celebrating their 70 th wedding anniversary! And they chose me to be their entertainment.     Congratulations to Kenny and Caroline Owen , who have been friends for a long while.   Eaton is up in corn and soybean country, just north of Muncie, Indiana. It looked pretty much like the landscape I grew up in back in Missouri. Real folks. And they had a great turnout of family and friends.     ...