Nashville

AKA ""Guitar Town "or "Music City" or the "Athens of the South"

Firstly, let us say it right out front.....there is NO comparison between Memphis and Nashville. Memphis is rough, dirty, unsafe, and with decaying infrastructure. Nashville is spotless, safe, and hugely rich with the local economy based on banking and finance and health care, and with 38 higher education institutions it attracts a different population. Apparently Nashville has the highest per capita income in the entire country. Indeed, they built a replica of the Parthenon for their centennial. Sure, both have music with Memphis Blues and Nashville Country, but Nashville has really spent money making it a beauty to visit. It is referred to as the Athens of the South because of all the universities and colleges (with a total of 100,000 students) and well known medical schools. They say that it is a good place to have a heart attack, if you have to have one, because the chances of a doctor walking by are staggeringly high or if not there would be a song writer to immortalize your last moments.

We toured the Country Music Hall of Fame (see photo of gold and platinum records), saw the famous RCA Studio A (where everyone from the Beatles, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Perry Como, The Stones, The Monkeys (!!), etc. all recorded there.....so ya don't have to be country to like or come to Nashville. One place that was a nice surprise was called the "Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum" and it was a tribute to all the background instrument players who backed up famous signers over the years; examples include the A-Team (Nashville), the Wrecking Crew (west coast), the Funk Brothers (Detroit) and the Memphis Boys (Memphis). Exhibits of instruments played for original recordings for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hank Williams Sr., George Harrison, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, Bob Dylan, Chicago, etc. were there....so, like we say, not everyone who records in Nashville is into country.

There is snap of a local beer joint called "Legends Corner", and another with the singer inside and one of Dave and Bev leaving.