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Thursday August 29, 2024

 

Thursday morning…nearing the end of hot August with a 100 degree high in Music City today.

 

YESTERDAY

It was so HOT yesterday. How hot?  Hot enough that I wrote a beach song with Aubrey Wollett & Wil Nance out at Wil's little farm.



 

Aubrey was in town from Tampa where she lives with her husband who’s a “tile” guy…so much so he’s in Portugal shopping for a certain type of tyle…I guess. That’s a long way from the linoleum floors I used to walk on growing up as a kid in Missouri.

 

Aubrey will be recording a new “beachy” EP come this December so we wrote an idea she brought out to Wil’s little farm into a reggae kind of number that was fun so hopefully this little “ukelele” kind of song might make the project. Time will tell of course. 


 

 

She's also big in the Trop Rock genre, an award winning artist actually. And if I don’t see her sooner I’ll see her in mid-November at MOTM…”Meeting of the Minds” the world’s largest gathering of parrot heads and beach song music lovers.

She won the “On The Horizon Artist” award just last year.



 

STAYING ON THE CHART

It was great seeing two gospel bluegrass songs that I helped write hanging on this chart you see below. “Blue Collar Gospel” is still near the very top at #2 this week from Jerry Salley & The Oak Ridge Boys.


 

 

And “God Never Made A Mountain” from Kristy Cox is at #10. 


 

 

Congrats and thanks to my co-writers on these tunes that include Jerry Salley (who also produced both of these songs) and Rick Lang on “Blue Collar Gospel” and Andrea Pearson and Josh Shilling on “God Never Made A Mountain”.



 

HEALTH NOTES

A new study says that being socially isolated can lead to poor aging. Being connected to others improves over all well-being.

 

In China new research reveals that men who drink five times a week have a two-fold higher risk of gout than those drinking once a week. Gout being a painful version of arthritis. For women the risk is more moderate.

 

5 more deaths now have been linked to the Boar’s Head deli meat listeria outbreak.

 

YEP



 

Something to think about while driving today.

 

TRAVEL CHANGES

Starting in early November for the first time ever travelers from the USA entering Europe will be fingerprinted and registered as they’re stepping up security measures there. One of the worst things about going overseas is you’re on a long flight. So when you arrive you’re tired and you just want to get to wherever you’re going. Then you have to go through customs with the long line… and now add another layer of having to get registered and fingerprinted. So pack your patience in your carry on if you’re flying to Europe like we just did a few months ago when we visited our kids in Germany.



 

SURPRISING WELL PAYING JOBS

Did you know that drone pilots can make over $120,000 per year? Me neither.

 

Traveling nurses are raking in about the same.

 

And fire chiefs can make a hundred grand per year…and they don’t need a degree.

 

And I chose to be a songwriter…sigh.

 

POLITICS

Now this might be the best political yard sign ever.



 

THIS SATURDAY

Another reminder that I have a show in Lebanon, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville this Saturday at Starstruck Farm with my “Hits & Grins” trio that includes Steve Dean & Victoria Venier. It’s a dinner show. Dinner at 7 pm and then we play at 7:45. Beautiful performance venue, so please come join us this Saturday evening if you can!



 

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

From the funny satirical folks at Babylon Bee. They say there’s always some truth mixed into comedy…that would be the case with this headline they wrote:

 

Mom Drops Kids At Daycare To Work Second Job To Pay For Daycare.

 

TODAY
I’m writing with Todd Tilghman who many will remember as the winner of “The Voice” season 18 on “Team Blake”.  Great guy. He was a pastor for many years, married his high school sweetheart and he and his wife have 8 children together. He’s concentrating full time on his music career these days and we’ll see if we can’t write something he loves today. This will be our third or 4th time writing together I believe. Looking forward to hanging with him today.


 

 

Have a great Thursday!


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