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BILL BLOG Thursday, July 16, 2026   Thursday morning has arrived with heat. The high will be 91 in Nashville today.   YESTERDAY I wrote a new song with Daryl Mosley , who is an award-winning bluegrass singer and songwriter, and it didn’t take us long. Daryl is a fast writer, as I tend to be. I brought a verse and a chorus that he loved. And then within half an hour, Daryl kicked out a great second verse and chorus to this new country love song we penned.      That made us joke about how EASY songwriting is. It isn’t. But a song we’re both proud of fell out in short order yesterday at my publishing company   Thanks for a great second half to this song Daryl.   LAST NIGHT My wife and I went to a little musical celebration party for my friend Lauren Mascitti , who signed a publishing deal here in Nashville. Friends of hers organized a musical evening and invited a few guest songwriters to sit in with her at a great Irish Pub, “ M...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, July 15, 2026   Wednesday morning, and I’m back home in Music City working on my first cup of coffee. And check out this new coffee mug I’m sipping from.   Yep, my wife’s book now has a danged coffee cup.      Hot today in Nashville, with a high of 90 expected.   YESTERDAY I made the trip back to Nashville after writing with 103-year-old World War II veteran Albert Wess , which was quite the honor, to say the least. For more on that, read yesterday's Blog.      CRACKER BARREL On the way home, I pulled over for breakfast at a Cracker Barrel. I got Uncle Herschel’s breakfast, AND I also got one of these CD's sitting in the top left corner of the rack.   That’s the new Dailey & Vincent album that has my song on it, “ Moon Shines on the Still, ” which I wrote with Laura Leigh Jones , that went #1 for them on a couple of bluegrass charts.   First time having a song you can buy a...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, July 14, 2026   And a good Tuesday morning to you from Paris, Kentucky. 87 will be the high today here in horse country.      YESTERDAY I drove from Nashville to the home of 103-year-old World War II veteran Albert Wass .     Albert was a truck driver for Patton’s “ Red Ball Express .” The express was trucks, lots of them, running supplies, food, ammo, whatever Patton needed for the front line. 99% of the drivers were black. Albert certainly saw his share of racism during his 4 years in the Army.   The express, sometimes as many as 50 or more trucks ran in the night with their lights off, for fear of being strafed by the German pilots, and the Germans claimed their share of American lives doing that.        Albert got out alive, returned to the States, and worked for over 30 years for the Army Depot near Paris, KY, and then over 20 years at a local drug store where he delivered medicine t...