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BILL BLOG Tuesday, March 17, 2026   Tuesday, and it’s St. Patty’s Day! And a cold St. Patty’s Day it will be. A high of just 38 in Nashville with tonight’s low dipping to 32. We had to pull some plants in because of the cold.   Still, it’s better than what my youngest sister Rita is looking at up in Rochester, Minnesota.   32 doesn’t seem so bad. Especially since it’s going to start warming up again, and hit 77 for a high by Saturday.   YESTERDAY What a fun songwriting session with my long-time friend Brady Seals , and two young brothers who are Spencer Hatcher & Connor Hatcher. Both brothers played bluegrass music with their Dad growing up, so we bonded pretty quickly because of our mutual love of that kind of music. Spencer is now a developing artist at Quartz Hill Records , and is now a country act, recording and writing country songs.   Yesterday, I brought a duet idea into the room that they loved, so I’m hopeful that the r...

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...