BILL BLOG
Thursday January 16, 2025
Thursday morning…time to pack for a road trip to the Carolina's starting tomorrow morning.
Beautiful in Nashville today. Sunshine and a high of 52. But…winter is not gone apparently as a cold front will rush in again and by Monday the high will only be 19 degrees.
YESTERDAY
Two of my favorite co-writers are Andrea Pearson and Josh Shilling. And yesterday I got to write with both of them. Josh is crazy good piano player and also plays guitar. He’s all over the country the past year playing piano for Wynonna and singing harmony parts. So I’d not had a chance to rhyme with him for a long time.
And Andrea is an in demand background and lead singer in this town and plays great guitar as well. So I was in the room with a couple of great voices and talent. And Josh brought a great up-tempo bluegrass song idea that we wrote that my publisher Joe Dan Cornett listened to after it was finished and loved it as well. A good sign, and he will start pitching it right away to two or three bluegrass groups who are looking for up-tempo songs right now.
Just a real pleasure every time I get to sit down and create with these two artists.
SONG OF THE DAY
So I thought I’d share a song that Josh and I wrote that the great Del McCoury recorded “Once Again”. It landed on an album from Del that was nominated for a Grammy last year as Bluegrass Album of the Year. Molly Tuttle won that award but I was certainly proud to have this song on an album up for that prestigious music award.
When we wrote the song, it felt very bluesy to me…a bit
like a great Ronnie Milsap ballad. And I would have never heard Del McCoury for
the song…never would have pitched it. But Josh knew him well and what Del liked
and so Del recorded the song and had Josh play the piano on the track. You
don’t hear a lot of piano on bluegrass songs. So it was an out of the box
musical blessing for sure. Del's version of our song sounds like an old Jerry Lee Lewis song to me. Listen and you'll hear that.
HEALTH NOTES
A groundbreaking study has shown that resistant starch, found in oats and slightly green bananas, can significantly reduce the risk of various cancers.
Yesterday the FDA banned red dye No. 3 from food, drinks and ingested drugs in the US.
The BBC says that chia seeds and pumpkin seeds are healthier than most vegetables. Next time I eat out I’m going to order chia pets as one of my side dishes.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
They should have known…right?
TOP CITIES
The publication Time Out surveyed over 18,000 folks asking them to name the best cities in the world. Here’s the top 5.
5…London
4…Melbourne
3…New York City
2…Bangkok
And the #1 choice was Cape Town, South Africa.
BIG HORSES
The Budweiser Clydesdales are in Nashville right now. They’ve been out to our Zoo…and yesterday they were trotting down lower Broadway and making beer deliveries to lucky patrons in some of our honkytonks. Pretty cool.
I grew up in Missouri and still remember making a trip to Grant’s Farm where they kept some of the Clydesdale. You get to ride a little trolly car and tour the estate. Lots of fun stuff to do there. If you’ve never gone…and you get near the Arch City…you should go. And take the kids.
ROCKET
Jeff Bezos…who owns Amazon Prime saw his Blue Origin rocket ship named “Glenn” lift off into the wild blue yonder successfully yesterday. So…imagine how much faster those Amazon deliveries are going to be now!
SPEAKING OF FLYING
Southwest Airlines has been sued for chronically late flights by the Feds. Great. Guess which airline I’m on tomorrow? Uh huh.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Library Vote Upholds Decision To OK Guns, But Ban Wooden Shoes. (So I guess if you’re Dutch…your half happy?)
TODAY
It’s packing day for a trip to North and South Carolina for two shows over the weekend with Linda Davis & Lang Scott. Saturday night we play Kill Devils Hill, North Carolina on the Outer Banks with our “Evening in the Round Show”. And a nice bonus…my sister Vickie is going to be at the show. I didn’t realize how close she lived to that part of North Carolina until she called and checked so it’s going to be great to spend a little time with her. We have a view of the ocean from our hotel…but it’s going to be too cold to get out on the beach unfortunately…but…I’m going to enjoy the view for sure.
Then Sunday we’ll be in North Mrytle Beach, South Carolina doing a show with our friends Darin and Brooke Aldridge at the Greg Rowles Legacy Theatre.
So on a plane tomorrow.
Have a great Thursday!
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