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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...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, September 29, 2026    And it’s Tuesday! It’s starting to warm back up again in Nashville. Today’s high will be 86.   YESTERDAY I wrote online with Tim Stafford over in Knoxville, who had a fun idea for a bluegrass song that we wrote. Really enjoy rhyming with Tim.   He told me that “true story” song “ Typhoon ” is already getting some airplay, the song written about the typhoon his dad saw in Okinawa in 1945 when he was a seaman on a carrier ship.      I love songs that have some history tucked into them, and this is certainly one of those.     SPAM I’m always amazed at some of the email I get, and how some of my songs just pop up on the internet.   Yesterday I was contacted by a Barbershop Quartet called “ The Mix Ensemble ,” and they asked permission to use the “ Spam Song ” that I recorded and wrote with Lisa Shaffer years ago, that’s on one of my albums. Here’s an EXAMPLE of thei...