BILL BLOG
Wednesday December 18, 2024
Wednesday morning…a week until Christmas! Some heavy rain today with wind and a high of 59. Could be fun driving in Nashville this morning. Maybe some hail to look out for.
YESTERDAY
My writing session was with Stuie French of the great French Family Band that features Stuie and his wife Camille and son named “Sonny”. All three talented. Stuie and his son are extremely talented guitar players as well as singers and writers.
Originally from Australia the group has been here in the states a lot of years now and have built a loyal following. Once a month they play a how here in town at the Station Inn and you have to go early if you want to get in.
Right now the group is working towards recording a new family album so Stuie and I have been writing songs that might fit the kind of project they’re going for. And yesterday we took an idea I had brought and turned it into a duet…as they are looking for duet songs that Stuie and his wife can sing together. Think we might have gotten them one that might work for them and the album. Time will tell.
CHRISTMAS MOVIE
Last night my wife and I watched a new Christmas movie “RedOne” that stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu and J.K. Simmons playing Santa Claus. Not brain surgery…but it was fun to watch. If you’re looking for a new Christmas movie this year…you could do worse.
SONG OF THE DAY
Today’s song was written with the husband wife team of Adam & Amy Pope and it’s a beach tune titled “Alabama Coast”. They like me love the beach, and they often visit the Gulf Coast as do I…Gulf Shores, Alabama to be exact. They didn’t have a beach song in their catalog at the time so we cured that and got a very “beachy” sounding song out it. Check it out.
STILL NUMBER ONE
Pretty cool. For 2 weeks in a row now the Kristy Cox song “God Never Made A Mountain” sits at #1 on the Mountain Gospel Bluegrass Chart that wrote with Andrea Pearson and Josh Shilling. Some kind of good news for that song we thought had a chance the day we wrote it.
And the song “Country Faith” by Kristen Bearfield featuring the great gospel singer Karen Peck is sitting at #11. This is a song I wrote with Kristen and our talented friend Lauren Mascitti.
Grateful to see both of these songs getting some love.
HEALTH NOTES
A new European study claims that a bottle of wine a week could be better than statins for the heart.
A fitness director says that 40 sit ups a day is a good goal for most people. (Wonder if I can hire someone to do my 40 each day?)
A health care expert says that just 1,000 steps a day can potentially reduce the risk of future depression by as much as 9%. More steps makes that percentage jump even farther.
CHRISTMAS THOUGHT
DEPRESSING
An article claims that the most depressing major city to live in in the U.S. is Anchorage, Alaska. Why? Because they get less sunshine than any other city. It’s dark…a lot…in Alaska. As much as I hate it getting dark early I realize I don’t have it as bad as folks up in Alaska. So I’ve got that going for me as I silently count down the days until baseball spring training camps open again.
WEIRD STORY
In Virginia guys are bear hunting. They see a big one up in a tree. One hunter fires…the big bear falls on another hunter standing near the tree and he dies a day later. Man, proof maybe that when it’s your time to go…it’s your time.
MEDICAL COSTS
Lots of talks about the health care system and co-pays. This preacher put out this on the billboard next to his church trying to make a point.
GLOOM AND DOOM
Nuclear bunker sales are soaring. $137 million dollars’ worth was sold last year alone and the amount is jumping again this year. This despite experts saying that it won’t save a life if a nuclear bomb falls. Me? I’m getting in the bathtub with a bucket over my head like I do when tornado warnings erupt.
SELFIE
A tourist in Taiwan gets hit by a train while taking a danged “selfie”. She’s lucky…she survived. It’s stories like this one that prompted me to write a song titled “Get Over Your Selfie”. The chorus goes…
Get over your selfie
Step away from that phone
Get out in the real world
Go make some real friends you can call your own
Hey everybody’s sick of the way
You keep click click clickin’ all day
Get a little sef-helpie
And get over your selfie
HOW’S THIS FOR A DEAL
Frontier Airlines is offering a one price fly all you want for a year deal called the “Go Wild Pass.” The cost is just $229 for that one year and then automatically renews at $699 a year. Pretty good stocking stuffer there.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Brawl On Airplane As Passenger Bites Another Traveler. (No word yet as to whether Mike Tyson was on board.)
TODAY
I’m back writing with two of the girls in the group “Three Times A Lady”. That would be Victoria Camp and Kennedy Scott. They are a great three part harmony group and all 3 of the ladies sing so great. We’ll have fun today.
Have a great Wednesday!
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