BILL BLOG
Tuesday August 13, 2024
Tuesday be here. A high of 86 today in Nashville. We’ve had postcard type weather here for the past couple of days, and nobody is complaining about that.
YESTERDAY
I had an afternoon writing appointment yesterday with my friends Steve Dean & Lauren Mascitti which is a little out of the ordinary for me as I mostly write at 10 AM. But Steve got a corporate show at the last second and we pushed things to the afternoon when I’m usually napping because of getting out of bed at 4 AM. I THINK I managed not to nod off while writing the new song…but you’d have ask the two of them to be sure.
It was the first time the three of us rhymed together and we walked away with a song that has and old school kind of Motown groove to it that Lauren sings the heck out of. That’s one of the nice benefits of writing with a truly gifted vocalist like her. You get to hear her sing it back to you.
Fun co-write yesterday to say the least.
THE CHART
There was some crazy good news that came in Friday. The Bluegrass Today Chart came out and revealed that the song “Blue Collar Gospel” by Jerry Salley & The Oak Ridge Boys went back to the #1 slot again. Written with Jerry and Rick Lang.
And in at
#4 is Danny Paisley and “Church Bells Are Ringin’” written with Rick Lang! Holy
Moly. This song also features the talent of bluegrass greats Barry Abernathy, Bradley Walker and Ben James. Ben James has recently become a member of the Oak Ridge Boys with the passing of Joe Bonsall.
Both songs are off the incredible album “Blue Collar Gospel…Songs Of Rick Lang” that’s just continuing to garner more and more attention. So proud to be small part of this great record.
SHOWS
I’ve added a couple of shows to my calendar recently. One is a house concert in
January here in Nashville with Lauren Mascitti & Wil Nance. A great house
concert we did together last year and the owners reached out and asked if we would
come back to their beautiful home again. Why yes we will…thanks for asking.
And then I locked in my first official show for the Meeting of the Minds, the huge Parrothead Gathering coming up in October as well.
The next show though is this Saturday in Tullahoma, Tennessee with my friends Linda Davis and Lang Scott at the South Jackson Performing Arts Center…7 pm show.
And then August 31 I’m at Starstruck Farms in Lebanon, Tennessee (Reba’s old place) with Steve Dean & Victoria Venier with our “Hits & Grins” show.
Check out the TOUR section on my website for more details on these shows as well as others.
HEALTH NOTES
A new Harvard study suggests that eating red meat is a direct link to diabetes 2.
Research says eating black beans helps lower your blood pressure, promotes sleep and weight loss, and reduces your cancer risk.
And yet one more study claims that washing your fruits does not eliminate pesticides.
UGLY STUFF
SPEAKING OF UGLY
Because of my song “Going Ugly Early Tonight” that I wrote with Brent Burns, we both get pictures from time to time that are fun and or interesting. This one was sent to me by my old radio buddy Jim Mantel who was at a festival in Michigan when he spotted a guy wearing this.
Hey…Ugly is everywhere now!
SPLINTERS
Check out this painless procedure (they say) that can remove shallow splinters using and unused medicine syringe. It sort of kind of sucks the splinter out instead of having to use a safety pin. I’d be all for that!
AN EATING APP
Some of my songwriter friend are now using the “Bobby Approved” eating app. You download the app on your phone, and it then allows you to scan the bar code on any food item and it basically will tell you if it’s healthy to eat or not. Watching them use it I’ve determined that there’s not much it approves.
I don’t really need the app as I’ve already figured out that if it tastes good? It’s not “bobby approved.”
FUNNY
QUOTE
Don’t know who said this but there’s some truth in it.
“Show me a man who can rise to CEO in only 6 weeks…and I’ll show you a son-in-law.”
TODAY
My buddy Steve Dean are back to writing again this morning…and today Kristy Cox will be our third writer. Kristy’s great new album “Let It Burn” continues to do so well that she received an award recently from her record label Billy Blue that was presented to her by the head of the record label Jerry Salley.
Kristy's new album has three songs I helped write including this very fun tune “Some Things Don’t Go Together”.
Looking forward to seeing what the three of us can create today.
Have a great Tuesday!
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