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BILL BLOG Friday April 25, 2025   Here comes the weekend. It’s Friday once again. A high of 71 today with more rain on the way.   YESTERDAY I wrote with young Taylon Hope for the first time in a long while. Taylon is now a Sophomore at Belmont, University here in Nashville, and she’s chasing her musical dreams. We were to write in person and then one of her professors scheduled a test that would have conflicted so we wrote online instead and created a fun song for her that will be something she can add to her set list when she’s out performing “live”.   I’m rooting for some of her dreams to come true as I am so many other young talents in this crazy creative town.   BURN ME DOWN An American Idol contestant from a year ago, Kennedy Reid reached out to me a few months ago through a producer friers asking for songs for consideration for an album she was going to record. I sent three or 4 songs and ,she recorded one of those that I w...

BILL BLOG Thursday April 24, 2025  Thursday be here. We had a little thunderstorm roll through last night that watered all the plants and we have a little more of it in the forecast today in Nashville. A high of just 73 today.   YESTERDAY   My writing session was with Brian White and Don Poythress out at Brian’s place yesterday. I’ve written with Brian a few times. Brian has had a lot of his songs recorded including a lot of Christian hits including the recent Dove winner for Song of the Year, “ Looks Like Jesus ” for Brian Free & Assurance with Jimmy Fortune that was #1 for 8 weeks!   Meanwhile Don has a list of hits as well including cuts by Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton , and this Easton Corbin hit "" Little More Country Than That" .   It was my first time getting to write with Don who plays great guitar and has a wonderful singing voice himself. Yesterday we did some “targeted” writing as Brian had received a call fr...

BILL BLOG Wednesday April 23, 2025   Wednesday “Hump Day” be here. A pleasant day ahead with some sunshine and a high 75 in Music City today.   YESTERDAY I made a trip to the grocery store to find out that egg prices have not dropped. Close to ten bucks for a carton of 18. I’m thinking about investing in chickens instead of Tesla these days.   LAST NIGHT I went to the world-famous Station Inn and listened to the French Family Band who are just great.   The family, from Australia and New Zealand are now citizens of the United States and when they announced that it got a loud round of applause. As did every song they performed!   Last night they performed two songs that I wrote with Stuie French , the Dad in the group. His wife Camille sang our new song “Empty House” for the first time ever, and it got a standing ovation from the crowd! That’s as good as it gets for a songwriter these days.      The place...