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BILL BLOG Tuesday, August 18, 2026   And now we have Tuesday. The temperature will drop just below 90 for the first time in a while here in Nashville. 89 is our high today.   YESTERDAY Monday was a busy day of writing songs. It started with a songwriting session with Alex Miller and Jaelee Roberts , and we chased an idea that Alex had yesterday. Alex plays great guitar, and Jaelee is terrific at throwing out ideas and lots of great lyrics, so it was a great collaborative effort.   We compared calendars after we were done and discovered how busy all three of us are.   Jaelee is part of the group Sister Sadie . She and the girls head to Nebraska the first of September.       Alex will be in my home state of Missouri this weekend, in Higbee, Missouri, to play their County Fair.     And I’ll be in Mountain City, Tennessee this Saturday night with Linda Davis and Lang Scott .    LAST EVENING I got onlin...

BILL BLOG Monday, August 17, 2026      Man, Monday comes around way too soon. We just went through 114 heat index degrees this past weekend, and it’s not cooling off a bit. It’s so hot in Nashville that the biscuits are melting. 95 degree high here today.   THE WEEKEND It was a very non-eventful weekend. I had nothing on the calendar that I had to do, so I didn’t. There was a funny episode where my co-writer buddy Brady Seals made me laugh out loud.   I had posted a picture of singer Ingrid Andress promoting that she was going to be on the Grand Ole Opry.     Ingrid was the young artist who was drunk trying to sing the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All Star Game that was a pretty bad moment for her and her career. If you’ve forgotten, here’s that cringe VIDEO .   So…I posted that if the Opry EVER invited me to sing, that I would have to dress that way as well, I guess. And that’s when my friend Brady posted th...

BILL BLOG Friday, August 14, 2026   Yep, we made it to Friday! A 96 high with humidity today in Nashville. And we thought July was hot.   YESTERDAY Right at noon yesterday, I jumped into this Hummer limousine.   A couple of other songwriters and some industry folks were driven around Nashville for as long as it took to hear my friend “ Jenny Tolman’s ” brand new album, out in a couple of weeks.      I have a song on this project that I wrote with Jenny and her producer-musician husband Dave Brainard that was written about Jenny’s mom, Kathy, who grew up in California. The song is titled “ My California Girl ,” and I’m certainly proud that Dave & Jenny invited me to write that particular song with them. What a great lifetime present for Jenny’s mom.   Jenny’s father Steve was born and raised in Boston. “ A California girl, met a Massachusetts man ,” is part of the song, and the two of them married and had a baby girl named ...