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BILL BLOG Thursday, November 5, 2026    Thursday morning, I’m packed and heading back to Gulf Shores for this year’s Frank Brown Songwriter’s Festival . More on that at the end of today’s blog.   Just 68 degrees for a high here in Nashville today. 80 will be the high today down in Gulf Shores.   YESTERDAY I was online writing with great bluegrass writer Tim Stafford , who was named Bluegrass Songwriter of the Year a few weeks ago. So, it gave me a chance to applaud him before we wrote a fun idea that Tim had.   I did not know that Tim did some impressions until yesterday. If you don’t follow bluegrass, you may not know some of these folks, but he was spot on with his Larry Cordle , Del McCoury , and Lester Flatt from Flatt and Scruggs.   I think I laughed more than I wrote yesterday.   SONG OF THE DAY Since I wrote with Tim yesterday, here’s a song he and I wrote with another bluegrass artist, Becky Buller , that Nick Dumas re...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, November 4, 2026   It’s the first Hump Day of November, and we are getting a soaking rain this morning in Nashville. Today’s high will be just 69 degrees. By Saturday, the high will only be 56, with a low of 36 on Saturday night.   I hate it getting dark at 5 pm now. Really hate that. But I don’t mind seeing Tennessee orange right outside my door at this time of year.     YESTERDAY I had such a fun write with Andrea Pearson yesterday at my publishing company. By the time she walked in, I had a chorus start on a song. She loved it, and we were off and running.   Andrea is a joy to write with, and so talented. I know something good is coming out of the room when we sit down together and yesterday was certainly no exception.      MUSICAL GIFTS That would be these two CDs.     The head of Billy Blue Records gave me these. I have the song “ Telluride ” on the Caroline Owens album, and two song...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, November 3, 2026   Tuesday morning. Voting day, and the high today in Nashville will be 76 degrees.   YESTERDAY I was in a writing room with Spencer & Connor Hatcher , along with my long-time buddy and co-writer Steve Dean , trying to write something for Spencer, who’s looking for an up-tempo country song. He’s getting ready to release new songs soon, and he needs up-tempo tracks, so we went with the song idea I brought yesterday.   Connor is Spencer’s younger brother and plays bass in Spencer’s band. They’ve had a busy summer, but they’ll be home in Nashville for a few months now and will be writing more, and then they have a 40-city radio tour come the first of the year promoting Spencer’s songs.   Meanwhile, my brother from another Mother, Steve Dean, is off to Huntsville this weekend to write with veterans for Freedom Sings USA . He tells me that next year is going to be a busy one for those of us who write for that organ...

BILL BLOG Monday, November 2, 2026   Monday morning, and we’re into November.   You rolled your clocks back, right? I will never understand why we have to do that.   THE WEEKEND Friday night I went to a place called “ The Local ” in Hendersonville, TN for the Caroline Owens “Low Flying Planes” album release party.   Jamie Johnson of the noted bluegrass group “ The Grascals ” introduced her, and she was off and running.     Caroline sang several songs from her new album, including “ Telluride ,” which I wrote with Andrea Pearson and that has been one of the most-played songs on the Bluegrass Junction channel on SiriusXM over the past 3 years.      Andrea and I had a “high-five” over that bit of news.   She had a big crowd, and our Billy Blue family was well represented, and we all cheered her on.        It’s a really good album, and I’m glad to have a song on it, with these other songwrit...