BILL BLOG
Thursday January 2, 2025
Thursday morning has rolled around and how was your New Year’s Day? Cold here this morning with the temperature sitting at just 26 at the start of today’s Blog. 46 will be the high.
YESTERDAY
I did a little tweaking of a song with Casey Penn…a bluegrass artist from Arkansas and lyricist Brent Baxter who was online with us from his home in Missouri. Casey had a line or two in a song we had written a few months ago. So the three of us dug in virtually and worked to make the song stronger. She loved the change…so mission accomplished. This is a song about Casey’s Razorback home state that’s going to be on her next album she’s working on right now. So it was worth the effort to spend an hour on New Year’s Day working to make it better.
NEW YEAR’S PIGSKIN
After that was done…it was College Football Playoff Bowl games the rest of the day. I think there’s still a bag of chips on the couch. The Texas-Arizona State game was a thriller for sure while the Buckeyes may have played their best game of the year surprising the “Ducks” with blowout win. One more playoff game today with the Notre Dame-Georgia matchup being postponed from last night to this afternoon because of the tragedy in New Orleans.
SONG OF THE DAY
This song of the day is one that’s been recorded twice. Well…three times actually. The first recording was from a young Daisy Mallory who wrote the song one day with me and Steve Dean at Steve’s house. She wanted to write a song about a “Train”…and that’s what we did. She LOVED the song when finished…we all did.
One of Daisy’s dreams at that young age was to have Vince Gill sing with her someday…and somehow her Dad knew somebody who knew somebody and danged if they didn’t get Vince to sing harmony with her on this song on the Demo…the “demonstration” record. It sounds awesome…and I wish it was that version that I could share. But when Daisy went to put it on an album she ran into a legal thing with a manager she had at the time who disallowed her from using that version. It happens.
But the version above that you can click on and then listen to…is pretty great if I do say so.
Daisy went on to play acoustic guitar for Lori Morgan for several years before retiring for the most part from music and becoming a Mom to a couple of cute kids.
And then a couple of years later…my friend Kristy Cox recorded a version of our song and released it as a single in the bluegrass world that did very well on the charts. So three versions…one song of “Train”.
HEALTH NOTES
A new study claims that warding off dementia means more reading, praying and listening to music.
79% of Americans feel burned out as they put most of their vacation time towards errands, Doctor visits, and family care according to those folks in the know.
More and more children are getting kidney stones. Experts think it’s their diet.
DUMB SIGN OF THE DAY
Duh.
BEST FOOD
The publication StayAtlas just listed the countries with the best cuisine in the world.
5…Portuguese (I can’t name a Portuguese dish)
4…Spanish
3…Mexican
2…Italian (And being in Italy and eating quite a bit? Hard to argue that choice.
#1…Greek food.
The U.S food? #13 in a list of 100 countries.
Although my belief is as long as they have Skyline Chili parlors in Cincinnati and few other cities? We should be ranked higher!
WILLIE NELSON QUOTE
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” He must have eaten a plate or two of that Skyline Chili I just mentioned to come up with that.
Willie also says in a SONG he recorded with Merle Haggard “If I’d Have Known I Was Going To Live This Long, I’d Have Taken Better Care of Myself.”
THE WORKPLACE
Research is saying that Gen Z workers consider 10 minutes late as being on time. Meanwhile Baby Boomer bosses have zero tolerance for that. So Gen Z folks…careful who you work for.
Gotta admit…one of my pet peeves is being late. I’m usually early or way to early. Just kind of always been that way.
And here’s proof that there’s a song about everything. Check out this song “Baby Boomers” that Brent Burns and I wrote that he recorded. Listen and see how many Baby Boomer things you recognize in this recording.
YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE
The National Fire Association says you should not leave a “live” Christmas tree up more than a month after Christmas is over. As it dries up it becomes more and more of a fire hazard. Christians have a belief that the Christmas spirit turns into bad luck if you don’t take it down by January 6.
Kind of glad we have an artificial tree here at the Whyte House. I think it will be up until maybe Easter this year. We’ll hide eggs under it.
FUN SONG
Last weekend I played a show with my talented friend Lauren Mascitti at Main & Monroe in Lexington, TN that I blogged about. Today I found this “live” CLIP of the fun song that I Lauren and Jimmy Fortune that Lauren’s Nana filmed while we were singing it. Jimmy Fortune had this idea, “It Wasn’t The Apple On The Tree, It Was The Pair On The Ground”. Check the song out and the story behind it by hitting the link just above.
OKAY…THIS MAKES ME FEEL OLD
Yep…Clint is 94 years young.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Mother Mistakes Nail Glue for Eyedrops, Endures Two
Months of Hell. (Yep…that’ll do it.) I think I might write a song to be titled "Read The Label."
TODAY
I’ll be rhyming with my talented friend Thomm Jutz today which is always a pleasure. Formerly from Germany Thomm is a gifted guitar player, songwriter, producer and even teaches songwriting classes for Belmont University here in Nashville. So yea, no talent whatsoever.
And I’ll be finished up in time to watch the re-scheduled Sugar Bowl this afternoon.
Have a great Thursday!
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