"Music City"

GideonT · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 2:37 pm Post subject: "Music City"

I live in Nashville and in the past few years we've seen a large increase in tourism and permanent tourists moving in. The symphony is great but lots of the people that come here seem to think Nashville is still very southern and all about honky tonks and country music and all the locals have southern accents but almost no one that I know has an accent. I want to know if you've been to or lived in Nashville and what you thought of it or even if you haven't done either of those what you've heard about it.
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Grits Burgh · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:09 pm Post subject:

I went one time to visit the Grand Ole Opry. I enjoyed the show - it was good, clean, wholesome family entertainment. I went to see Dailey and Vincent and they didn't disappoint.

The very few people whom I met there were friendly - especially those with southern accents.

The town itself, what little I saw of it, compares favorably with other cities. I didn't feel threatened there, but after strolling around Baghdad during the last war, very few places seem threatening to me.

You mentioned Nashville's reputation - it is generally regarded as a country music town. Is there much of a jazz scene there?

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Grits
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GideonT · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 7:23 pm Post subject:

Some jazz yes, there's a small club near downtown where musicians can pretty much do whatever they want, which is good since they can preform what they want to and not what they are told to like studio musicians but there were some people that were just there for the drinks and to talk with their friends at the bar (I'm underage but was with my dad) even while the guys were playing which I thought was pretty rude but I guess that comes with it not being a super serious jazz club. I got to see and re-meet Lief Shires and his small group, I first met him a few weeks earlier because he was hired as an instructor for high brass in our marching band for band camp. Super nice and it was really cool to see him preform after he had taught us. The other musicians were really really good too and the place is called Rudy's Jazz room.
Here's a video of the day I got to see him
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uBUbFlOmmQk

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kehaulani · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 9:19 pm Post subject:

I've worked there. Musicians were very good and more versatile than you might think. The recording area I was in was very friendly. Didn't get much of a vibe for the city. Have no compulsion to return, but I didn't spend more than a week there and a lot of that time was in the studio, YMMV.
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WxJeff · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:26 am Post subject:

Our son earned his degree in graphic design from Lipscomb University and has now lived in Nashville for over ten years. It is a growing, eclectic city.

There are still droves of tourists from the Midwest who embrace country music and walk up and down Broadway hitting the clubs and Ernest Tubb's Record shop.

Our son's words: "the hipsters have discovered Nashville." There are many young people moving to the city. Housing has become expensive and hard to find. "Close-in" housing projects are being built at a rapid pace. We have found that hotel prices have almost doubled in the last five years.

He uses his degree as a freelance graphic designer and is doing well, and is also in the band Birdtalker. I heard them live at the The High Watt last year. Lots of energy, lots of young people, outstanding folk/rock music... not a Luke Bryan T-shirt in sight.

dstdenis · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 7:49 am Post subject:

I went to college in Nashville and thought it was a great town. Although everyone thinks of it as a country music place, I heard all kinds of music when I was there, and I met people from all over.

Reminds me of that line from The Blues Brothers: "Oh, we got both kinds [of music here]--we got country AND western." Nashville wasn't like that for me.

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GideonT · Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 8:56 am Post subject: