BILL BLOG
Friday February 14, 2025
And a good Friday morning to you. Happy Valentine Day. The temperature is just 22 degrees at the start of today’s BLOG! It will warm up to 46 today in Nashville.
YESTERDAY
Wednesday morning started with a co-write with my buddy Troy Engle up in Pennsylvania. Troy was to have been in Nashville this week which means we could have written face-to-face for the very first time. The two of us have written a growing catalog of bluegrass songs together over the years from songs we’ve written strictly online. And Troy has recorded two or three of those and even had one of those songs top the bluegrass chart “Back Home”. We STILL have not met in person as Troy had to cancel his trip here.
It’s funny how close you can get, and how much musical chemistry can be built through a computer. And we added one more song yesterday to our little pile.
THE BLUEBIRD
It was quite the night last night at the Bluebird Café that was once again sold out.
Barry Hutchens hosted this round who’s from Virginia and I thank him for letting me sit in with a great group of writers that includes himself.
His son Will and my friend Laura Leigh Jones completed our round last night. Laura came in from North Carolina after having moved back there recently after having worked at the Opry for years here in Nashville.
I so enjoyed hearing all three of them sing. And I got to hear Laura sing some songs of her soon to be released bluegrass CD that was produced my one of the most talented musicians in this town Justin Moses who plays every instrument and his wife Sierra Hull who is one of the greatest mandolin players on earth. Both of them were in the house last night. It was surely great visiting with them. Here’s an EXAMPLE of their unreal musical talent.
And at my guest table sat not one but TWO American Idol stars Alex Miller and Lauren Mascitti along with Lauren’s “Nana” that everyone in town knows and loves. Alex’s current single with Emily Ann Roberts “More Country Than You” continues to make noise, and Lauren was on a high after singing at the Grand Ole Opry the night before. So they made the night even more memorable.
I’ve said it before, but if you’re coming to do the Nashville thing, you really have not done it until you take in a night at the Bluebird and experience what makes this town go. The songwriters…the stories and the songs.
CONGRATS
To my dear friend Linda Davis who will have her name written into the Walk of Fame in Carthage, Texas where she's from along with the late great Tex Ritter.
Linda is from Carthage which is home to the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame of which she is a member alongside all those great Texas Country Music artists. And it’s a long list of amazing artists from the present and past.
I was in Carthage last year with Linda and her husband Lang Scott. We had dinner in downtown Carthage, and afterwards I got to see the sidewalk where a brick will be laid with her name on it. I told her I can’t wait to walk all over her someday.
It could not happen to a better person. Anyone who’s been in her presence knows what I’m talking about. And if that’s not ENOUGH great news, Linda and Lang are about to become grandparents to one more little girl as their daughter Hillary and her husband Chris are expecting baby girl number 4 to complete their wonderful little family!
Truly great news for great friends. So proud for them.
SONG OF THE DAY
So, I think I’ll share a Linda Davis song…sort of. This is actually a duet with my warped friend Brent Burns down in Gulf Shores that Linda was kind enough to participate in. The song is titled “Resistible” and is really funny if I do say so. And Linda’s part put it’s over the top funny. Listen for it.
HEALTH NOTES
Health officials have sounded the alarm as a new monkeypox strain has been detected in a US state for the first time. That state is New York and it apparently traveled over from Africa.
Nearly 170 passengers and crew members on a Holland cruise were stricken with the norovirus.
They say Tennessee is facing a severe flu outbreak, one of the worst in the country. Great. Just what we don’t want.
SIGN
With it only being 22 degrees at the moment I agree!
KAYAK
I’ve kind of always thought I would like to learn to kayak. Not so much anymore
after seeing that guy get in his kayak get SWALLOWED by a Humpback whale in the
Strait of Magellan only to be spit out and survive later. Nope. All of a sudden
kayaking is off my list of things to try.
VALENTINE DAY
It is that day. One person tweeted that you can “save money by being unlovable.”
This is still my favorite Valentine gift suggestion for this year.
OR MAYBE GET HER THIS FOR VALENTINE
Who doesn’t want a shoulder bag that looks like buttered toast?!
SPEAKING OF GIFTS
How about Saquon Barkley of the world champion Philadelphia Eagles and the gift he gave to his offensive linemen? He’s giving each one of them a semi-truck load of Bud Light Beer.
Maybe the most unique football gift ever given. That’s a lot of beer.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Woman Falls In Hospital Told To Call Ambulance. (Well, at least it will be a short ride to the ER)
TODAY
I’m off to write with Alex Miller again today. And then it’s the weekend. Pretty sure I’ll be watching at least some of the Daytona 500 on Sunday.
Darell Waltrip used to be a regular guest on my radio show at WSM-FM here in Nashville and he was always insightful, funny, and educated us what we don’t know about NASCAR. I still miss hearing him in the broadcast booth yelling “Boogity boogity boogity! Let’s go racing boys!”.
Have a great weekend!
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