I tried to talk the person who puts together our photo section into flipping this first picture over so that my birthday candles would read “58”, but he said he couldn’t do it. Besides, that would make my granddaughter, Sophie, “31” and that wouldn’t be fair. We shared our birthdays with each other once again, […]
There’s nothing like a good late summer vacation to get a guy ready for fall, and you can tell from the first picture here that I was taking advantage of my time away last month. There was an ocean nearby (a week before Ian came calling, thankfully) sandy beaches for sitting (and walking occasionally), and […]
I had the chance to visit with my grandson, Gabe, on his 18th birthday last month, and you can see here in this picture that we were both all smiles. All he wanted was the latest Lego sets, and as you can tell, he got his wish. He has loved putting together Lego ever since […]
My longtime guitar player and band leader, Les Singer, and his wife, Lizzie, celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on July 15th, and the next day hosted a get together of family and friends in their new hometown of Franklin, Kentucky. We ate some good food and laughed at a lot of old road stories. Next […]
In our first picture this month, Dallas Wayne, from Willie’s Roadhouse on Sirius/XM, and I are arm-wrestling over whether he’s going to play MY new record next on his show or play HIS new record. Since I co-wrote and performed on both recordings, I can’t lose either way, and we both needed the exercise. The […]
The video for my and Dolly Parton’s duet of “Someday It’ll All Make Sense” centers around the two of us driving an old vintage car from a place of darkness into a place of light…just as the lyric of the song portrays. We used a 1936 Aero 30 convertible, made in Czechoslovakia I’m told, and […]
“UMG Records wanted my upcoming album to have a “retro” look, so they found this old picture from somewhere back in the sixties to use on the cover. They also wanted the record to tie-in with my current display at the Country Music Hall of Fame, so they titled it after the exhibit, “As Far […]
One of our “Ask Bill” letters this month dealt with the late Dave “Stringbean” Akeman, and shortly after that letter arrived this grainy old picture from back in the sixties popped up as well. This was String appearing on my portion of the Grand Ole Opry reading one of his trademark “letters from home.” The […]
It was a happy day for all with the announcement that my second oldest granddaughter, Caroline, said “yes” to a marriage proposal from her longtime boyfriend, Jacob Hall. The two of them met a little over four years ago in Knoxville when they were both in school and working part-time jobs together. They are in […]
Steve Dorff and I both graduated from the University of Georgia, we were inducted into the national Songwriters Hall of Fame on the same night, and we got together recently to celebrate our alma mater’s national football championship. While we were at it, Steve produced and played piano while I sang and recorded a new […]