Bill's Blog

BILL BLOG Monday August 31, 2026   It’s not only Monday morning, but it’s also the last day of August. How is that possible? And though Fall is around the corner and football games have started, it’s still H O T. We’re expecting a 95-degree high in Nashville today, 100 on Thursday, with the heat index around 105.   Thank goodness, I’m going to be in the mountains of Ruidoso, New Mexico on Thursday, where the high is only 80 and the low that evening will be just 58 degrees! More on that at the end of today’s Blog.       THE WEEKEND Last Friday morning I was at my publishing company rhyming with both Angus Gill and Victoria Venier. First time with this particular trio.   Angus, the Australian, brought a great bluegrass idea. While he was in Australia, he recorded an entire Bluegrass album that included “ Scrapbook ,” written about his late grandmother who passed a few years ago from Alzheimer's. He truly honored her, as that song that I...

BILL BLOG Friday, August 28, 2026   Here comes the last weekend of August. It’s Friday. 89 for the high today in Nashville, but by next Tuesday we will soar back up to near 100 again. And some folks are already into their pumpkin spice drinks.   It’s not fall yet, y’all!   YESTERDAY I’m guessing that yesterday a lot of songwriters sat down and wrote songs about Dolly Parton . And when I sat down to write with Adam & Amy Pope, they had a Dolly idea, and so did I.    And even though we knew that our song would be one of many, we chose my idea and wrote, “ Like Dolly Did .” Sometimes, you have to write what’s on your heart. The three of us felt so strongly about it that Adam and Amy took the idea home last night and made this DUET VIDEO of our song. Thank you Adam and Amy!     EMCEE WORK I found out yesterday that I’ll be the official backstage announcer for this year’s Trop Rock Music Awards in Gulf Shores Thursday afterno...

BILL BLOG Thursday, August 27, 2026   Thursday morning it is. And it’s getting warmer in Nashville again. Today’s high will be 90. By Sunday we’ll be back up around 95.   YESTERDAY I wrote with a great bluegrass songwriter yesterday, Mark Brinkman, who now lives near Ocala, Florida. Originally from Wisconsin, lived in Ohio for a while, and now he’s down in sunny Florida, where he enjoys the sunshine and writes a lot of bluegrass songs that are recorded by many bluegrass artists.    Mark, nicknamed “ Brink ,” made it very easy on me as he sent me a complete chorus. Before we jumped online yesterday, I sent him a first verse that he liked. So…all we had to do was write a second verse, and we made it a short day. Short enough that we could talk baseball, as he’s as big a fan as I am of the game.   He grew up a Milwaukee Braves fan, and we talked about Eddie Matthews , Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn , and other great players that wore that uniform. And...