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BILL BLOG Friday November 29, 2024   Happy Friday! 32 degrees right now with a high in Nashville today of 43 before dipping to a cold 25 later this evening. Time to put the trap door up. YESTERDAY Anyone else still in a turkey coma after yesterday? My wife and I sat at a long Turkey table with the Scott family and some great friends. We could not have been in better company so thank you Chris & Hillary and Lang and Linda for inviting us.   We certainly missed seeing our daughter Heather again this year and her husband Casey who are stationed overseas with the Army right now. But we were surrounded by people we love.  I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day as well.    SONG OF THE DAY Today I’m sharing a song I wrote with Paul Bogart about his youngest daughter Gentry . Paul lives out in Oklahoma…a real deal cowboy George Strait singing son of a gun. The two of us wrote a song for both of his sons that he recorded...

BILL BLOG Thursday November 28, 2024   Thursday…and a blessed Happy Thanksgiving to us all. 46 with some sun here in Nashville on Turkey Day.   YESTERDAY I wrote with my buddy with the Australian accent Angus Gill . Though he’s moved here permanently…I don’t expect to hear him talking with a southern accent anytime soon.   Angus is young and extremely talented…and he’s always in touch with all the latest tech and gizmos. Yesterday I got familiar with Chatgpt and AI generated music that he’s more than comfortable with. I realized again I’m behind the curve in that arena. Hard to catch up.   The two of us rewrote a song we’d written a few weeks ago and made it stronger…with some help from ChatGPT for the first time…for me.   I also met Blue Foley who’s a veteran songwriter here in Nashville with multiple cuts by artist Ashley McBryde . Blue let Angus move into part of a home he owns here. I also found out that Blue is partne...

BILL BLOG Wednesday November 27, 2024   Wednesday…and here it is…Thanksgiving Eve. If you’re a turkey…it’s not a good idea to be loitering in a backyard today. Beautiful in Nashville today. Sunshine and a high of 57.   YESTERDAY With a day off my wife and I had a little date and went to see the movie “Wicked”.   Two thumbs up from both of us. The two lead actresses were terrific…both great singers in Ariana Grande as Glinda the Good Witch and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba the Wicked Witch. The songs, as well as  the movie sets themselves were pretty spectacular. I think Universal spent over 300 million on this film and it shows. It’ll make that back and a TON more before it’s done running. And it’s just part 1 with more to come.   There's a nice nod to the Broadway Show version as the leads Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel who played the good and bad witches on Broadway as they were given a small part in this film.  ...

BILL BLOG Tuesday November 26, 2024   Tuesday morning…couple days away from carving the turkey. 50 for the high today here in Music City…bracing for some cold weather on the way.   YESTERDAY I had nothing musical on the calendar yesterday…but had one of those “had to do” things that took up a chunk of my day. Sometimes you can’t control a calendar…the calendar controls you and give you no choice. But there was some good news that came rolling in.   NEW SHOW On Tuesday January 28 I’ll be hosting a songwriter round at the world famous Bluebird Café. And the great part about this news is that I’m going to be able to add my longtime friend Brent Burns to this show…something that’s been a bucket list item for him.   And I’m so glad that I’m the one who will get to make this happen for him. EVERY songwriter wants to play the Bluebird. And somehow, even though my friend lived in Nashville and wrote very seriously for a long while, he ne...

BILL BLOG Monday November 25, 2024   Monday morning…the start of Thanksgiving week y’all. And I still have no idea what a giblet is.   69 with some light rain in Nashville today but getting MUCH colder by weeks end. On Friday our high will only be 44 with a below freezing low of 26. Ain’t ready for none of that now.   THE WEEKEND Mine started Friday morning writing with Alex Miller at my publishing company. We tweaked an old song we’d written a couple of months ago and made it stronger…and then wrote a stone-cold-by-God-unapologetic-sad-country song. Think George Jones sad. Pitiful really…but cool in a retro country way. The kind of stuff 21 year old Alex Miller likes to sing.   Following that Alex and I met an old radio friend from Eureka, California Rollin Trehearne and his wife and their friend at a Mexican restaurant. It was fun catching up with Rollin and introducing his group to my friend Alex.   Rollin Trehearn got his ...

BILL BLOG Friday November 22, 2024   Friday…the weekend be here! Little chillier going into the weekend with a high of just 49 today and the low tonight will dip down to 37.   YESTERDAY I rhymed with two friends yesterday Rick Lang and Kristy Cox . Though I have written with both many times, and each of them have recorded songs I’ve written with them, it was the first time the three of us sat down together. And yesterday we wrote a gospel song idea that Rick brought with him…pretty much an entire chorus.      I was able to share with Rick that I heard one of our songs “ Church Bells A Ringin ” that’s on the Blue Collar Gospel Album-Songs of Rick Lang on Sirius-XM on the way to our appointment sung by Danny Paisley and a group of great harmony singers. That was pretty cool.     And we got to celebrate with Kristy for her album “Let It Burn” that’s up for a couple of big Golden Guitar Awards this year including Best Albu...