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BILL BLOG Tuesday, April 21, 2026   And here comes Tuesday with an 82-degree high on tap for today.   YESTERDAY I got resettled in after the road trip to Illinois and reset for the week ahead. The highlight of my Monday was watching my Reds win another game last night. They’re on a roll right now, and it’s fun to watch.   COMING SOON Country artist Katrina Burgouyne sent me a video of a song being recorded by her that the two of us wrote, “ Take Me to Heaven ”, and told me she’ll be releasing this song soon. She’s had a great response online when she throws up a tease of this song. Good news to a songwriter’s ears.      Here's a little TEASE of that song.     THE WEEKEND One more thing about this past weekend’s Freedom Sings USA event in Anna, Illinois. I mentioned in this Blog a few days ago that the Gold Star Mom of Brian Romines was at our event…all three days. Her boy was killed in Iraq, the only one of 151 young ...

BILL BLOG Monday, April 20, 2026   Monday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville, where the high will be just 73 today.   THE WEEKEND Quite the weekend in Anna, Illinois, with Freedom Sings USA. Saturday morning, our guests treated our group of songwriters to a free breakfast inside the old gymnasium at the old High School we are staying in, which has been converted into a very cool Inn.   It does remind me a bit of the old High School that I attended in Elsberry, Missouri, which was a long time ago. This one, they preserved.  They put me in the old music-arts room of the High School, complete with the chalkboard in front of my bed, a small record player, an old Cathedral radio, and some 45 RPM records. Talk about a throwback!   OUR VETERANS My veteran was Bob Caracker this trip. Bob is from Anna, Illinois. Born and raised, still here with his wife after all these years.   Bob went to Vietnam. He remembers the day his draft let...

BILL BLOG Friday, April 17, 2026   And a good Friday morning to you from the town of Anna, Illinois. A warm 86 degrees here today in southern, Illinois.   YESTERDAY I made the trip from Nashville to the small town of Anna, Illinois drive for our Freedom Sings USA event this weekend.     First stop was the High School.     Actually, this old High School was our hotel. A former Marine and his wife turned the old High School into a hotel.      Yep, my room has a blackboard in it, and I wrote “ I will be good ” a hundred times, then clapped the erasers, just like my old High School Days. It’s really a cool place owned by nice folks.     THE VFW After settling in for just an hour or so, we drove to the local VFW, where we had dinner, and each songwriter met the veteran who they will be writing with later this morning.      My veteran was a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. I can only ima...