Bill's Blog

     Tuesday, and it’s the last day of March…already. We will hit 84 degrees for our high today in Nashville.   YESTERDAY I had a whole lot of nothing on my Monday plate, so I spent some of my time working ahead on upcoming tour dates and songwriting appointments. And I spent some time looking at my song list for tomorrow night when I’ll be a guest of the great songwriter Larry Cordle at the Station Inn, alongside my buddy Bobby Tomberlin .        Bobby has 3 of his songs on the new Willie Nelson album, so I’m sure I’ll get to hear some of that tomorrow evening, and Larry always slays the room when he sings his Diamond Rio hit “Mama, Don’t Forget to Pray For Me. ” I’m looking forward to hearing those songs as well as many others.   SONG OF THE DAY My friend Troy Engle, who now plays multiple instruments for Ricky Skaggs in Ricky’s great band Kentucky Thunder, put up a “live” version of a song we wrote together t...

BILL BLOG Monday, March 30, 2026   The last Monday in March has arrived. A high of 77 with sunshine today in Nashville, and then we will be in the 80’s for the rest of the week.   THE WEEKEND Mine started with watching a couple of our BIG trees get cut down. And watching the guys do that with their ropes, chainsaws, and climbing ability was truly unreal, and a show.      Watching them drop a really big pine tree just off our back deck, and making it land EXACTLY where they wanted it to, safely away from the deck, the house, and other trees, was just amazing. And now we have a different view for sure out of both the front and back windows. All of this was done because of that crippling ice storm that left us without power for six days and brought down so many trees and limbs in Nashville. My hats off to the men and women who remove trees. ROBOT UMPIRES Watching my Reds play baseball over the weekend, and in Saturday’s game, C.B. Bucknor , th...

BILL BLOG Friday, March 27, 2026   Friday morning, with the weekend sneaking up. A high of 71 today in Nashville.   YESTERDAY I had no appointments on my calendar, so I had a chance to watch my Reds Opening Day game in Cincinnati.   Unfortunately, the Red Sox beat us in the first game of the 2026 season, but it felt great seeing baseball on the TV again. I failed to mention yesterday that a songwriter friend from Missouri, Gary Boevers came to see the songwriter show I was in on Wednesday night at the Station Inn for Tin Pan South.    When the show was over, he gifted me this.     That’s a Johnny Bench model bat. He knew what a Reds fan I was, and had this lying around, he said, for a long while, so he gave it to me. How cool is that?   Thank you, Gary. I wish Johnny had been in the lineup yesterday with that bat!   MARCH MADNESS Illinois, Arizona, Purdue, and Iowa all advanced to the Elite 8 after Sweet 16 pl...