I liked Nashville a lot. I'd found a deal on a
nice hotel room the night before that was close to Music Row, which I thought was a good thing. Music Row is just a bunch of office buildings though. Office buildings with history, but office buildings nonetheless. Saw the studios where Elvis, Johnny Cash and some other guy recorded hits. I know I did, because they had big gaudy guitars in front of the buildings that told me so. Before I walked that, though, I checked out downtown. Parked by the symphony place and saw that Ben Folds was playing with the Nashville Symphony (I was really into Ben Folds for awhile there). The rest of it (that I walked, anyway) was too touristy. I'm a tourist and I like a lot of that stuff, but it just wasn't my cup of tea. So I went back to the hotel, had dinner and then did the Music Row walk. When I got back to the hotel, they were setting up for some kind of music in the hotel bar, so I had a couple beers and checked that out. Turned out the lady playing was the daughter of the woman who wrote
Brand New Key (can't remember the name at the moment). Don't ask me why, but I love that song.
After that, I headed down to the
Station Inn to see a bluegrass band. It was really dead when I got there, but picked up enough by the time the band started. I like bluegrass a lot, but I don't know anything about it. They seemed really good to me though. I'd had a few more beers in me by that time though.
This is a shot from the North Carolina Welcome Center on the border. I was playing around with the panorama thing on my camera. The colors are dim, but it stitched things together pretty well.
My sister might get a kick out of this picture. My apologies to the rest of you bastards.
My room in Nashville. It's probably the nicest hotel I've ever stayed in. That I've paid for myself, anyway. This site can sometimes get you really cheap rooms, but there's no guarantee you'll get the hotel you want. I was actually trying to stay at a Sheraton, I think.
That's the Heartbreak Hotel guitar. What an awesome-looking office building!
2 comments:
was the other guy carl perkins, by chance? he seems like a contemporary of elvis and johnny cash.
Could be. There was one from Johnny Cash and another guy next to each other. Looks like there's a lot more of them, like the Peanuts statues in St. Paul.
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