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BILL BLOG Monday, October 5, 2026   It’s the first Monday morning of October. 80 degrees high is on tap for Nashville today.   THE WEEKEND It was pretty laid back at the Whyte House this weekend. Caught a lot of football and baseball play-off action on the TV. Since my Reds had an awful season, I have no dog in the baseball play-off fight, but I’m rooting for Milwaukee as I lived and worked in that city for six great years. Go Brew Crew.   Hard to not root for a baseball team that has mascot that used to slide into a mug of beer after each home run.     THE WEEK AHEAD I’ll be playing a private event on Wednesday evening for the Mercy Chef’s organization that provides great food for disaster workers and volunteers around the world.     This is the third year I’ve been blessed to be part of this as I was invited by Linda Davis and her husband Lang Scott . So, the three of us will sing some songs for the sponsors and donors w...

BILL BLOG Friday, October 2, 2026   It’s Friday, and the first weekend of October is here. 85-degree high today in Nashville, and we might see a little rain, something we have not seen in a very long while.   YESTERDAY Thursday was a day for working ahead, pitching some songs, and catching up on stuff.    BLAST ON THE BAY My schedule for this year’s Blast on the Bay Songwriters Festival in Port St. Joe arrived, a great songwriters fest on the Gulf Coast. Here’s what I have as of now.   Thursday, October 15 is a private event to kick off the festival complete with music, and my favorite thing, a big ole shrimp boil near the water.     Friday, October 16 I’ll play at Taproot at 3 pm with songwriters Jerry Salley , Will and Barry Hutchens .     Saturday, October 17 I’ll be at Scallop Republic at 5 pm with songwriters Jerry Salley , Jeff Silvey , Dana Hunt Black .      Sunday, October 18 I’m at t...

BILL BLOG Thursday, October 1, 2026   It’s Thursday, as well as being the very first day of October. That sure got here in a hurry, didn’t it?   We are expecting a 90-degree high today in Music City, before it starts cooling down over the next few days.   YESTERDAY Last night I was at Zanie’s Comedy Club here in town to root on a friend of mine, Angus Gill who was making his comedy club debut. It was nice to see a great crowd turnout for it. Angus invited me and another funny guy Joe Denim to be part of his show last night.   Joe and I each got up and did 10 or 15 minutes of “funny,” but the show was all about Angus who did so good.  Standup, especially the first time can scare the heck out of you. I remember the first time I ever did it was in Cincinnati at the Funnybone Comedy Club . And you’re REALLY nervous because you just have no idea if the jokes or going to land, or if people are going to laugh. They did that night, and they als...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, September 30, 2026   Last “Hump Day” of September. Heck, September is almost out the door! The last day of September brings warm weather with a high of 90 expected in Nashville today.   Colorado is expecting 34 inches of snow this weekend. Break out the snow skis.   YESTERDAY I wrote a very fun song with my friend Andrea Pearson yesterday. She’s such a great songwriter-singer, but she was happy to jump in on my funny song idea titled “ The Finger .” It’s always great when a songwriting session is filled with so much laughter during the writing of the song.     We’ve written some of my favorite songs together, including a #1 bluegrass song for Caroline Owens , “ Telluride ."        But we've never written something with this kind of humor in it. Now we have.   And when I say Andrea is a singer, I mean she’s a great singer. In demand for singing studio session background vocals, but a heck of singer...