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BILL BLOG Thursday April 3, 2025   Thursday morning. It’s about 5 AM as I’m starting this blog and it’s been a really long night with tornado warnings. LOTS of them. We were hunkered down for an hour and a half in the middle of the night in our safe place. Our tornado warning just lifted but there may be more on the way. Lots of hail…large hail and winds and VERY heavy rain that is going to hang around and cause major flooding all over the Nashville area.   As I’m trying to get this blog in this Thursday morning, I have the TV on watching the radar for updates. When the sun rises at about 6:30 I’m hoping to look out and see our trees still standing. And I’m rooting for the power to stay on as well. We’ve already had 2 deaths reported and it’s early.   And the weather folks are saying we could have another system coming through on Saturday. It’s been a long while since I’ve sat through a stormy system that lasts as long as this one is going to. A...

BILL BLOG Wednesday April 2, 2025   Wednesday and it’s the first Hump Day in April.   Speaking of weather. Some forecasters are saying that six states could get 4 months of rain in 1 week. Tennessee is on the edge of that system. There could be enough flooding going on to force Noah to build another Ark.     69 will be the high in Nashville but then we jump into the 80’s for the next couple of days to accompany all the rain that’s coming with those higher temperatures.   YESTERDAY I had a great time writing a new song with two American Idol girls yesterday. Lauren Mascitti .   And Janelle Arthur .   Both of them are great writers and REALLY great singers. Janelle had the excuse of the year though for being late for our April Fool’s writing session. She had to feed the cattle and milk a cow, and it made her late. How ya gonna top that?   I had a start on a country-bluegrass kind of song that the two ...

BILL BLOG Tuesday April 1, 2025   Tuesday morning. April Fool’s Day. Don’t fall for anything day.   The big storm that rolled through Sunday night included 3 tornados cooled things off in Nashville considerably. The hoodies and jackets came out after they’d been put away.   YESTERDAY My writing session was with Angus Gill and his housemate Blue Foley joined the two of us. Blue is from Utah originally, produces a big songwriters festival in Denmark every year, has had two Grammy nominations in his past, and Ashley McBryde to name one artist has recorded songs he has written.   Several months back I was over at their house and Blue was upstairs trying to put something together with tool belt on. I said, “Some assembly required huh”?   And that lit him up. So yesterday we wrote a really cool Christmas tune with that title.   It was good getting to know Blue better and it’s always fun writing young Angus.   SON...

BILL BLOG Monday March 31, 2025   Hello Monday morning. And welcome to the very last day of March…already. Last night we had high winds. High enough that it blew away at least one home in the Nashville area. Some rain, lightning, and thunder also showed up. Our power stayed on and we’re always grateful for that. Today we’ve got a little more rain with a high of 76 in Music City.   THE WEEKEND On Friday morning I wrote with Stuie French again of the French Family Band . Talented family to say the least. Stuie and his son Sonny are extremely good guitar players and Mom Camille is a great singer. Stuie is out on the road some too with my friend Jimmy Fortune playing shows all over the country.   I got some good news from Stuie as he confirmed that the new album the band is working on will include a Western Swing song the two of us wrote that the band is already performing in their shows “Ya Gotta Go Through Texas” (To Get to Tennessee). ...