Rand Bishop, Hailey Stout and Justyna Kelley on Firepit Friday

Published: Jan. 24, 2009, 1:41 a.m.

b'Rand Bishop, Juntyna Kelley, Hailey Stout & Glendyn Bishop join CC and Cynthia around the firepit. Rand talks about his new book “Makin Stuff Up” as well as many success stories. He also keeps everyone laughing with a few of his “other” stories. Who is Rand Bishop you ask?Rand Bishop is a Grammy-nominated, BMI Award-winning, Million-play songwriter with well over 200 cuts to his credit—by such artists as Beach Boys, Heart, Cheap Trick, Indigo Girls, Tim McGraw, David Ball, Peter Noone, Richie Havens and Vanilla Fudge—among many others. Bishop’s My List, recorded by Toby Keith (co-written with Tim James) spent five weeks at number one on the Billboard country singles chart in the spring of 2002 and, according to industry bible Radio & Records, ended that year as country radio’s most played song. Public response to the Keith hit inspired Bishop and James to co-author what became a profitable companion book, My List (24 Reflections on Life’s Priorities), published by McGraw-Hill. Currently he is writing, producing and developing new talent in Nashville. On this episode you hear some of the artists he’s working with.'