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BILL BLOG Friday May 17, 2024 Friday morning and the weekend is on us. And today…more heavy rain. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. High of just 70 today.   YESTERDAY I had a great writing session with Sarah Davison at my publishing company. The second time we’ve had a chance to work together. Sarah just came off the road on the Blake Shelton tour where she played piano with our mutual friend Emily Ann Roberts who many of you will probably remember being on “The Voice” and on Blakes’ team.     Sarah is from Iowa and she’s a farm girl and she ain’t faking it. Catching up we talked about Massey Ferguson’s and the cost of a combine these days, Spotted Poland China hogs, skinning catfish, and planting corn. She’s country.     Sarah is also the leader of a wonderful girl group “High Road” who have toured all over the place. She majored in piano at Belmont University here in Nashville so we took advantage of that and wrote a gospel song that sounds good

BILL BLOG Thursday May 16, 2024   It’s already Thursday morning y’all. And it will be sunny and 81 here today. We’ll take it after all the rain and cloudy weather we’ve had.   YESTERDAY I jumped online and wrote a new song with Troy Engle up in Pennsylvania. Troy is truly a talented one man band as he can play ANY instrument well. His new album out in August of this year is pretty much him doing everything.     To give you an example of his talent listen to his current single we wrote together “ Never Too Lost ”. Troy is playing every instrument you hear, is singing lead and harmony parts as well. The ONLY outside person involved is yours truly as a co-writer. Troy was in Nashville for a long while and played with a ton of folks. Tom T. Hall, Eric Church, The Isaacs and on and on.   It’s just a pleasure to rhyme song with someone that nice and ultra-talented. And yesterday’s song was great fun to write.   HEALTH NOTES The online publication

BILL BLOG Wednesday May 15, 2024   Wednesday morning “hump day” all day. A little sunshine on tap today…we hope. High of 75 in Music City today.   YESTERDAY Tuesday was a pretty lazy day. I had one appointment then the day opened up. It was another day that brought a little rain which is something we’ve gotten used to in Nashville these days. Loud thunder and heavy rain at times. That really bad storm that went through here less than a week ago was indeed something. They now say 9 tornadoes touched down in the Nashville area during that storm that killed one and did it’s share of property damage particularly just south of Nashville in the Columbia, Tennessee area.   SHOW DATES AHEAD My road work has slowed down a bit after a very heavy first quarter of running and doing shows. It starts to get busy again come the first of August.   Here’s a peek at the shows on my calendar coming up now through the month of August.   June 18 & 19 I’m in Heywor

BILL BLOG Tuesday May 14, 2024   Tuesday morning…and more rain and thunderstorms are moving in. And it looks like we’ll have rain most of the week. Might be enough to drown the cicadas we’ve got.   YESTERDAY I wrote something new with Darin & Brooke Aldridge online last night to add to our little catalog of songs together. Brooke pulled up a song we had not finished and I’m glad she did as I had forgotten about it. Turned out to be well worth revisiting. Those two have been so good for my songwriting career having recorded several of my songs on their albums through the years. Including two on their new CD “Talk of the Town”.      Hard for me to pick a favorite, but one of my favorites was this song my friend Lisa Shaffer and I wrote titled “ Trying To Make Clocks Slow Down ” that was inspired by Jimmy Buffett talking about getting older.   It’s always time well spent when I’m writing with that great bluegrass couple, and last night was no exceptio

BILL BLOG Monday May 13, 2024 Monday morning be here…hope you spoiled your Mama’s yesterday. Little rain in our forecast today in Nashville with a high of just 72.   THE WEEKEND Friday morning I was in a writing room with my young Aussie friend Angus Gill who is now here in the states and planning on staying if he can wade through all the red tape to make that happen.   Angus and I have written several songs, some of which he’s recorded on his albums in Australia that have done well. He’s a multiple Golden Guitar Award winner in Australia and one of the albums and songs that did really well for him is this song “ Scrapbook” that’s dedicated to his Grandmother who was ill at the time we wrote it. Angus knew he was not going to have her much longer and we wrote this song to honor her.      It turned out so great and it went #1 on the Australian charts and is now a living memory of his Grandma. I’m glad he invited me to write that idea with him. And I’

BILL BLOG Friday May 10, 2024   Friday morning and we head into a Mother’s Day weekend. With no rain! All that rain and weather that's blown through Nashville has cooled things off and we have a postcard Friday coming up with sunshine and a high of just 70 expected.   YESTERDAY We dried out finally…at least for a few days. Some folks are still digging out and waiting for power to be restored from all the tornado-storm activity that went through here for the longest time. And how about this? A tornado has been reported every day now for 2 weeks in the U.S.  We were pretty danged lucky considering the length and width of that massive storm. The sun popped out again, and we’ve got a sunny couple of days on the horizon. Ready for those.   WRITING I wrote online yesterday morning with my talented Knoxville friend Tim Stafford who’s a member of the esteemed group Blue Highway . And he teaches part of the year at Eastern State University near where he’s