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BILL BLOG Friday, August 14, 2026   Yep, we made it to Friday! A 96 high with humidity today in Nashville. And we thought July was hot.   YESTERDAY Right at noon yesterday, I jumped into this Hummer limousine.   A couple of other songwriters and some industry folks were driven around Nashville for as long as it took to hear my friend “ Jenny Tolman’s ” brand new album, out in a couple of weeks.      I have a song on this project that I wrote with Jenny and her producer-musician husband Dave Brainard that was written about Jenny’s mom, Kathy, who grew up in California. The song is titled “ My California Girl ,” and I’m certainly proud that Dave & Jenny invited me to write that particular song with them. What a great lifetime present for Jenny’s mom.   Jenny’s father Steve was born and raised in Boston. “ A California girl, met a Massachusetts man ,” is part of the song, and the two of them married and had a baby girl named ...

BILL BLOG Thursday, August 13, 2026   Bring on Thursday. 96 warm degrees today in Nashville. With the heat index at 109!   YESTERDAY I spent time out at my friend Wil Nance’s little writing cabin, a little mini-farm he owns, complete with his own bridge over a danged pond.     Andrea Pearson joined us, and the three of us knocked out a country song with a little groove to it that’s pretty infectious. It’s always fun creating something new with these two.       LAST NIGHT My friend Angus Gill and I spent the night at a club called 3 rd & Lindsley listening to and cheering on our friends in this great collection of musical friends that includes Jimmy Fortune and the French Family Band . The night was billed as the “ French Connection ,” because the “French Family Band” added some talented friends for this show that features them singing “cover” songs, or hit songs from other artists, and not their original songs.   ...