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BILL BLOG Tuesday, June 23, 2026   And, it’s Tuesday, with a high of 79 today in Music City. Pleasant.   And it’s Prime Day as well, or as I like to call it, “Does anyone need any boxes day?”   YESTERDAY First day back at the songwriting table in almost two weeks after fighting off a cold. It felt good to create a new, fun song with my friend Katrina Burgoyne at my publishing company Billy Blue. Katrina has been busy recording new music, playing shows, and being a wife, and a Mom to a young little boy she calls “Poppi.”   And she brought a saucy idea to the table that was fun putting together. Here’s another one to put on her fun pile of songs that you just might hear someday.   SONG OF THE DAY Since I wrote with Australian Katrina Burgoyne today, here’s a song about her life right now that we wrote together, titled “ Living the American Dream ” as our song of the day.    HEALTH NOTES There’s some good coming from AI. Boston C...

BILL BLOG Monday, June 22, 2026    Hello, Monday morning. Looking for an 81-degree high today in Nashville, and maybe some rain.   THE WEEKEND Hope you had a great Father’s Day weekend. I’m proud that Donald Payne Whyte was my Father. And I’m proud to be the Father of this creative one, Heather Nicole Peterson .   My wife and I spent part of Father’s Day hooked up on the computer with our daughter and son-in-law, Casey , over in Germany, and we watched the movie “Michael,” which was really, really good. Michael Jaafar , who is Michael Jackson’s real-life nephew, played the lead role and was incredible. I can see an Oscar nomination.        The movie is a reminder of how incredibly gifted Michael was as an artist and creative genius.        AND IF YOU DIDN’T NOTICE It was a LONG Father’s Day, as it fell on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.   BACK TO VIETNAM I ...

BILL BLOG Friday, June 19, 2026   Here comes a weekend. It’s Friday. A comfortable day is on tap for Nashville, with the high temperature being 83.   YESTERDAY It was a day of feeling much better than I have in a long while, with that lingering cough and cold. I think it finally had enough of me and moved on. Good riddance. I’ve never cancelled so many events on my calendar at one time, but by the time Monday rolls around, things should return to normal for sure. Grateful for that.   I certainly missed being in the town of Heyworth, Illinois, for our Freedom Sings USA event that wrapped up last night with my four songwriter buddies singing songs they’d written with veterans up there.   4 more great veteran songs have been added to the list, and that’s such a great thing.        And I felt really bad when I got a note from some friends in southern Missouri who host Parrot Head concerts at their home, who drove all the way up to He...