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BILL BLOG Tuesday, April 14, 2026   Tuesday morning it is. It’s going up to 86 degrees in Nashville today.   YESTERDAY I spent part of my Monday getting familiar with our county landfill. We’ve done some trimming and cutting in our yard, and our local trash collectors don’t seem to want to haul it away. Sigh.   So, I made a 45-minute journey to a huge landfill, paid a fee, and then drove a mile and a half at 10 mph on a long, dusty gravel road. My SUV needs three baths now and an industrial-sized Hoover to clean it up again.   I learned to drive on a gravel road in Missouri. Three on the column transmission in an old Ford pickup with a cap on the back that my Dad owned. There were lots of gravel roads to drive on at the time. I’ve decided that asphalt is a pretty good idea after yesterday.   And that’s the trashy story of my journey yesterday.   UP AHEAD Here’s a peek at where I’ll be from now until the end of June.   This...

BILL BLOG Monday, April 13, 2026   Monday has rolled around again. And it’s bringing some light rain along with a 79-degree high in Nashville today.   THE WEEKEND Mine started with a great co-write and a very fun co-write with my friend Angus Gill. Angus is from Australia, but now lives in the States. But he still works with a lot of musical artists back home.      Angus knows an artist back home who’s looking for songs right now, so we wrote a “country-drinking” song for him, since Angus knows the artist likes that kind of song. And this one is a little funny as well. We’ll see if he likes it.   I’m proud of Angus, who is starting to make some noise here in Nashville. He is currently working on a project to raise money for the James Burton fund. James played lead guitar for Elvis for many years, and for many other notable folks.     I actually got to see James playing guitar for Elvis when I was young in St. Louis. Amaz...

    BILL BLOG Friday, April 10, 2026    Here comes the weekend…it’s Friday! Sunshine and a high of 82 on tap for Nashville today.   YESTERDAY I had a writing session with young Sonny French on Thursday morning. Sonny was fresh off a long tour with his family band, “ The French Family Band .”     Sonny told me that the family group did 25 dates out on the road. That’s a pretty good tour to say the least.   He brought a great song idea that he and our friend Alex Miller had started on, but had not finished. (More on Alex in a second) So the two of us finished up that idea, and then called and teased Alex about how his name went on a new song, and he wasn’t even there. And that made him laugh, of course.   It’s always fun writing with such great young talent like Sonny, who most surely will be a person to keep your eye on for the future.       RELEASE DAY   I’ve never had TWO major song releases ...