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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...

BILL BLOG Wednesday, March 11, 2026   Wednesday morning, and I’m back home in Nashville. Some possible severe storms today in Nashville…all eyes on the skies as that dreaded “T” word is in the forecast…tornado. The high will be 77 today.   YESTERDAY I was honored that the family of Joe Lewis asked me to say a few words about my longtime friend and former radio buddy. A very loose eulogy, if you will. I shared some really funny stories about my friend, as I knew that the rest of the Catholic service was going to be pretty somber. And my friend was all about making people laugh when he was on the radio, and outside of his radio job as well. So I was happy to hear those who were gathered in the church laughing loudly at some of those funny stories I shared about him.   RIP, Joe.   MUSIC NEWS My young friend Alex Miller’s new album will be out on Billy Jam Records on April 10, less than one month away, and I’m happy to have the title track, “ More Country...

BILL BLOG Tuesday, March 10, 2026   And a good Tuesday morning to you from Missouri. I’m back home to give a eulogy at a dear friend’s funeral at 10 AM this morning. Up in the 80’s here in Missouri today. Come this Monday, though, the high will be just 38 degrees, with a low of just 24 on Monday night. Yikes.   YESTERDAY I overnighted with my longtime friend Dodge Raymer last night, the husband of the late Dean Raymer, who was my band manager back in the day, and a second Mom to me. The two of us drove up to Bowling Green, Missouri, for a visitation for my friend Joe Lewis, with whom I worked with as a kid at KPCR Radio in Bowling Green. We had a chance to visit with Joe’s wife Rosie and two of his daughters. The one daughter, Lori , wrote this OBITUARY that truly captured who her Dad was. I’m honored that the family chose me to say a few words this morning.       THE RADIO STATION The radio station that was in a one-bedroom cow pasture where Joe ...

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.   ...