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BILL BLOG Monday, March 16, 2026   Monday morning, start of a new week.   A lot is coming up. St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, just a few days away from “Opening Day” for baseball, and I have a show this Saturday night with my friend Lauren Mascitti and a full band.     LAST NIGHT It was tornado watches and warnings, and my wife and I got up and into our “safe place” and waited for that storm system to pass over us, and it did. There were some power outages in Nashville, but we got lucky this time, and ours stayed on… a blessing. We had some heavy rain with it, and that’s brought in cooler temperatures. Today’s high will only be 37, and the low tonight will be 23 degrees. That will last through tomorrow, then start warming up again.   THE WEEKEND Friday morning, I wrote a new song with two talented artists-musicians, Addie Levy     And Ella Hennessee .   It was our second time writing as a trio, and a really cool song ...

BILL BLOG Friday, March 13, 2026   Friday morning, and the weekend is on us.   It’s warming up for a couple of days in Nashville before the temperatures drop again. Today’s high will be 69 with lots of sunshine.   YESTERDAY I wrote a fun, traditional country song with Alex Miller and Jason Byrd . Both of these artists love the “real” country stuff, and I’m always happy to jump into the middle of a song like that. Jason had the title, and Alex had a great groove going on the idea, and sent it to me the night before. By the time they got to the publishing company, I had a pretty good head start on the lyrics.   Jason comes into town from Tallahassee, Florida, about once a month, and writes for a week with writers in Nashville.      He was already writing with Alex Miller, so Jason asked to pull my friend into this session, and I’m glad he did.     Fun day again at the songwriting table.   DELIVERY BOY I...

BILL BLOG Thursday, March 12, 2026   Thursday morning it is. We had a little storm roll through yesterday, enough to knock our power off…again. This time it was just a couple of hours instead of over 6 days like it did a few weeks ago during the ice storm. I kind of think if you have no power for over 6 days, that should be your quota for the year.   Temperatures dropped after the storm. So much so that I plugged a space heater back in this morning. The high will get up to 54 today. But come Monday, the high will only be 36 with a low of 23 Monday evening. Spring hasn’t quite arrived yet.   YESTERDAY I rewrote a song with Victoria Camp and Kennedy Scott at my publishing company.      A few months ago, we wrote a really “out there” fun tune titled “Music Row”. Kennedy loves the song, but thought we should write it completely differently this time to try and make it more commercial.      Turned out to be a great idea. Now, we have...