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BILL BLOG Thursday, September 10, 2026    DISCLAIMER Today's blog looks a bit different, because for some reason my blogger program is not allowing me to upload any pictures...so my apologies.   And good morning from Gulf Shores, Alabama. The sun is coming up, and the high will be a comfortable 85 down here on the Gulf Coast.       YESTERDAY I got up early and made a 7-hour drive to one of my favorite coastal cities, Gulf Shores. I’ve been coming here for years, and I always look forward to coming back and spending time here. I’ve got two shows down here with my friend Brent Burns. The first one will be this evening here in Gulf Shores, and the second one tomorrow afternoon, in Biloxi, Mississippi.  I had to give my friend some grief, as he took me to a Mexican restaurant last night to eat. A bunch of his friends, and some Trop Rocker friends of mine were there at one long table. I reminded Brent that I had driven 7 hours to the beach, and ins...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, September 9, 2026   Wednesday, Hump Day, and departure day for Gulf Shores. More on that later.   YESTERDAY My Maryland friend Rick Lang was in town from Maryland, so we got together and wrote a new bluegrass song from a great idea he brought with him.     He also played a rough cut of a song we wrote last year that is going to be included on his next project titled “ Hard Times and Heartaches .”     A great bluegrass artist, Dave Adkins, is singing the lead vocal on our song, and it sounds SO good. The album should be out sometime next year.   NEW DATE On September 30, I will be at Zanie’s Comedy Club here in Nashville for my friend Angus Gill’s stand-up comedy debut.    Not only will I be rooting for my friend, but I’ll be sitting in for a couple of funny songs. Those songs will be “ I’m Going Ugly Early ,” and a song that Angus and I wrote, “ She Bought A Grass Skirt, And I Bought A M...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, September 8, 2026   Tuesday morning, Labor Day is over, so it’s back to work!   We’re expecting the high to reach 91 today here in Music City.   YESTERDAY After being on the road for 5 days, yesterday was a catching-up and a planning-ahead day. Unpack, do laundry, and then repack again for the next road run.   I sent a couple of songs to a producer who is looking for “country” songs for a young artist he’s producing. Here’s hoping the producer will like one of the songs I sent him.   MORE CHART NEWS The song “ Blue Collar Gospel ” that I wrote with Jerry Salley and Rick Lang is sitting at #11 on the Cashbox Bluegrass Gospel Chart . Amazing, as that song has been out for a very long time, and it’s been on this chart for 26 weeks and counting. Wow.      The song was recorded by Jerry Salley and the Oak Ridge Boys and was nominated for the Bluegrass Gospel Song of the Year last year. We didn’t win, but...

BILL BLOG Monday, September 7, 2026   And a good Monday morning from Nashville…good to be back home on Labor Day!   The high today in Nashville will be 91. That will feel comfortable after a week’s worth of 100-degree heat.   THE WEEKEND Friday morning, our “ Evening in the Round” trio made our way from cool Ruidoso, New Mexico, to H O T Midland, Texas. I’m still calling it New Mexico, even though the President now wants to rename it something else.    It was 105 degrees when Linda Davis , Lang Scott , and I looked out and saw the state bird of that part of Texas.   Our route took us right through Roswell, the town that keeps reminding us that the UFO’s are out there.   This was the second time that Linda Davis, Lang Scott, and I have played this beautiful theater right smack dab in the middle of oil country.   This time we played on the big stage.     But, it was different, as we played on a sta...