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BILL BLOG Tuesday, August 4, 2026   Tuesday morning has arrived.   YESTERDAY I wrote a new song with my New Hampshire friend Rick Lang , who just happens to be up for the Songwriter of the Year Award this year from the bluegrass folks.     And later this morning I’ll write with another nominee, Tim Stafford . So I’m most surely writing with some talented folks.   Rick and I wrote a country-bluegrass kind of song yesterday, from an idea we had kicked around a couple of months ago. It was a fun day of writing, and even better day of conversation between the rhymes.   A ZOO I heard a lot of noise coming from outside the house yesterday. Turns out, it was these guys honkin’ away like there was no tomorrow.     Add the geese to the raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys, groundhogs, foxes, and a LARGE family of deer. We must have as many as 10-15 deer regularly lying out in our backyard. Every late Spring we get to see the n...

BILL BLOG Monday, August 3, 2026    Welcome to the first Monday in August. And the weather folks warn that there will be more record heat coming at us all month. Although it’s not all that uncomfortable in Nashville today. The high will be 83 degrees.   BACK TO SCHOOL The yellow school bus will be rolling past the house today, as it’s the first day of school here. And yep, some Moms are celebrating.     THE WEEKEND Friday morning was spent writing with my talented friend Angus Gill , who had asked me to join him and a young artist named Brady Harris to write a song for an album project for young Brady.     I didn’t ask, but I’d guess Brady to be 19 or 20, full of that kind of youthful energy, with his whole world in front of him. I wanted to buy some of it.   Brady has a band in Mississippi, but he’s got eyes on Music City. I brought an idea he loved, and I’m pretty certain this song will be on the album he and Angus ar...

BILL BLOG Friday, July 31, 2026   It’s Friday, AND the end of July is here. Hard to believe. 89-degree high for the last day of July here in Music City.   YESTERDAY My Missouri friends Becky Denton and her husband Will were in town and requested a writing session.    Becky has dipped her toes a little bit into the Trop Rock world and is thinking of recording a few “beachy” Christmas songs, and brought a great title with her. So it was Christmas in the writing room yesterday.   Will and Becky live up in Paris, Missouri, but they do get to Nashville now and then, and I’m glad they reached out for a get-together yesterday.   A Christmas song in July. Go figure!   PLAY BALL! Last night I got out to the ballpark to catch a Nashville Sounds baseball game. The temperature dropped just enough to make it comfortable to sit in the stands. Hard to beat an evening watching the boys of summer do their thing.     The good gu...