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BILL BLOG Thursday, July 23, 2026   And now Thursday morning has arrived. Sunny with a high of 83 today in Nashville. Pleasant!   YESTERDAY I wrote a new bluegrass song with my buddy Tim Stafford online yesterday. Tim is one of the premier songwriters in the bluegrass genre. He’s been the Songwriter of the Year as well as Best Guitar Player more than once. I’m always in good creative hands when I rhyme with Tim.   I had a verse and a chorus already written; Tim jumped in with a second verse idea and a bridge, and we were done.   Tim has a brand-new song out that I love, “ Right Amount Of Wrong, ” that you can check out that will be one of the songs on a new album project of his. And he told me yesterday that the second single is going to be one of ours, so I’m looking very forward to that.     HACKED While I was writing with Tim yesterday, my e-mail box started lighting up in bold with e-mails that had bounced back. It took a bit, b...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, July 22, 2026   Hump Day, Wednesday it is. Sunny and a little cooler today with a high of 87 after an evening of storms and heavy rain last night.   YESTERDAY My Tuesday morning was spent with Kevin Williamson , the Dad of the talented Williamson Branch Family Band .     These days, we spend a little time talking about Kevin’s new grandkids, as he’s a proud grandpa, and rightfully so. But after that, we got down to writing a cool country song about all the things that money can’t buy. Which is the good stuff. Like spending time with your kids, and/or your grandkids.   So time well spent at the writing office.   LAST NIGHT I had the pleasure of catching a sold-out Ricky Skaggs show at the beautiful Ryman Auditorium last evening.      And as great as Ricky is, I went to see my friend Troy Engle , who is a member of Ricky's great band, "The Kentucky Thunder.” Angus Gill , my Aussie friend, we...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, July 21, 2026   Here it is…Tuesday morning. And it’s still hot. 93 for the high today in Nashville.   Meanwhile, a life-threatening tropical storm named “ Bertha ” is expected to batter Louisiana, Florida, and Texas.   YESTERDAY Monday morning, I was on a Zoom call-interview with my friends Linda Davis and Lang Scott to promote an “Evening in the Round” show that we will be doing at the Davis Theatre in Concord, North Carolina, on November 15.      Thank you to the young Director of Marketing, Charlotte Marcellus Vail , for the great interview.     The three of us are looking very forward to this show in November.         CHART NEWS This was a nice surprise seeing the song “ Moon Shines on the Still ” from Dailey & Vincent climb all the way back to the #2 spot on the Bluegrass Today Chart .     This song that I wrote with Laura Leigh Jones Robertson had ...