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BILL BLOG Monday, March 9, 2026   It’s another Monday morning. Well, we sprung forward. And with spring upon us, it’s tornado season. Over the weekend, multiple deaths from twisters touched down in places like Michigan and Oklahoma.   Scary time of the year.   We are expecting 73 to be our high in Nashville today.   THE WEEKEND What a great show our “ Hits & Grins ” trio, with Steve Dean , Victoria Venier,  last Friday night in Huntsville, Alabama, at the Jim Parker Songwriter Series.   It’s always fun playing at this great series that songwriter-singer Jim Parker established many years ago. The shows are held in a gorgeous theater.   Jim was under the weather and could not join us on stage. We missed him in our songwriter round, but still had the best time. We had a wonderful crowd who really got into the original songs and stories we shared Friday night.   Thank you, Jim, for having us once again.   ...

BILL BLOG Friday, March 6, 2026    Friday morning, getting ready for a road trip to Huntsville in a few hours. We’ve got a warm 83-degree high today in Music City, but those weather guys are actually predicting one more arctic blast in mid-March. Geez.   YESTERDAY Well, I’ve got a good story to tell after writing with my young Kentucky friend, and former American Idol star Alex Miller , yesterday.   First, I found out that Alex, who is all of 22, was out at a bar a few nights ago and convinced a young lady to dance with him. He thought he recognized her, and when he asked, he found out that she’s country music star Zach Topp’s girlfriend!   And that was not the big surprise. He then told me he had been backstage at the Opry a couple of nights ago to hang out with the Malpass Brothers, with whom both of us have written.   As he was walking around backstage, he saw the great Del McCoury and his band warming up in one of the dres...

BILL BLOG Thursday, March 5, 2026   Thursday morning, be here. And it’s bringing sunshine with a 78 degree high to Nashville.   YESTERDAY With no appointments on my calendar, yesterday was a day of catching up on things. I did a little pre-work for a couple of “ Hits & Grins ” shows coming up. The first one is this Friday night in Huntsville at the Jim Parker Songwriter Series .     And then the following Saturday at Starstruck Farms in Lebanon, Tennessee.   Looking forward to both of those.   OLD FRIENDS I caught up with a couple of those yesterday. I got a text from my Grand Canyon Railway Train buddy, John Carpino . It was John who got me on the train two years, singing songs to the tourists as the train rolled to the south rim of the Grand Canyon and back to Williams, Arizona, each day. It was a blast.   Thank you, John, for that!   John let me know that he was interviewing another longtime friend of mine,...