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Tuesday August 26, 2025 

 

Tuesday morning, and we’re getting closer to the end of August…already. The temperatures are cooler. As I begin the blog early this Tuesday morning, it’s just 53 degrees. We’ll hit a high of 80 today in Nashville with sunshine.

 

YESTERDAY

I spent some time in the recording studio with Angus Gill, singing background vocals on a song we wrote for a young female artist, which will be part of a six-song EP she will release soon. Angus has moved over to the States now and is producing some American artists after producing a long list of hitmakers in Australia. Talented young man for sure. And it’s always fun working with him in any creative way. He had me singing some bass parts, lead parts, and harmony parts on this song titled “I Don’t Miss You Much”. Fun couple of hours.



 

A LITTLE CHART ACTION

I was happy to see the song “Telluride” land in the #5 spot on this chart on its first official week out from Caroline Owens, a song that I wrote with Andrea Pearson.



 

Caroline is one of the young bluegrass stars who's already making a lot of noise and is going to have a great career…no doubt. 


 

 

And she’s become one of my favorite artists to write songs with as well. Congrats to her, Andrea, Jerry Salley, who produced this great record, and the musicians who helped make this such a great record.


 


 

SONG OF THE DAY

I’m sharing another song that Brent Burns recorded that we wrote together about living your life fully before it’s too late. It’s a story song titled “Better Live It Up”. (Before they put you down). I try to remind myself to do just that.


 


HEALTH NOTES

About 2,000 cases of 7Up Sugar Tropical Soda were recalled in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia because cans labeled “Zero Sugar” were found to contain a full-sugar product. Doh!

 

A study suggests that exercise rewires your brain to fight heart disease.

 

The Chinese are developing a robot with an artificial womb that could give birth to humans by next year. (So much for Lamaze classes)

 

HERE’S YOUR SIGN



Exactly!

 

BEST SPORTS MOVIES

This list comes from the publication FILM. I’m a big sports movie fan, so I was interested to see their choices. They listed 15; here are their Top 5 Sports Movies of All Time.

 

5…Field of Dreams (My number 1 choice always for best) Greatest speech ever about the game from actor James Earl Jones. 

 

4…Warrior (an MMA movie I’ve not seen)

 

3…Raging Bull

 

2…Bull Durham

 

1…Rocky… the best of all time, according to them.

 

My top 5 would include sports movies I’ve watched multiple times. So…Invincible, Rookie, Miracle, and Rocky would probably round out my personal top 5 choices. 


 

 

 

THROW A MATER

The annual tomato fight in Spain is tomorrow. People throwing hundreds of tomatoes at each other in Bunol, Spain. And for the 80th consecutive year, the streets, walls, and people will be covered in red.



Or in the words of the late John Belushi.



Spain may have the two weirdest events of any country when you consider they have this tomato fight AND the “Running of the Bulls” every year. 


 

 

MORE DRONES

In Florida, they are testing armed drones in several school districts that could help neutralize school shooters.



 

It’s good that we have technology that can help, but sad that we have to.

 

HERE COMES THE EXPENSIVE BRIDE

Weddings ain’t cheap, y’all. The average cost of a wedding in DC is now $70,625. That’s the most expensive. Here in Tennessee, it’s quite a bit cheaper. $28,000. And in my home state of Missouri, cheaper yet. Just $27,000.

 

Heck. If you want to really save money, get married by Elvis in Las Vegas. Cheap. And you get a nice scarf to take home as a souvenir.



 

HEADLINE OF THE DAY

Florida Woman Arrested For Unlicensed Dental Work…Allegedly Used Superglue On Victims’ Teeth.(It should be an "open and shut" case for the prosecution.)

 

TODAY

I’m off to write with Andrea Pearson for the first time in a bit. Andrea has been back home up in Vancouver with her two little girls, Mom, and sister, helping to restore a place the family owns up there that she loves. She’s recording a song about that we wrote together after she told me about this special place. Andrea has been in the recording studio with it, and I’m hoping I’ll get a “sneak” listen to it today.

 

Have a great Tuesday!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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