Here we are in Nashville! After a nice bike ride yesterday on the Natchez Trace Parkway, we headed downtown for the obligatory visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame. The visit also included a tour of RCA's famous recording Studio B, where thousands of classic country hits were recorded. I mean, we're not necessarily into classic country, but the tour was really neat! and the Hall of Fame itself was great - lots of memorabilia and paraphernalia and amyalia and whathaveyoua.
After dinner with Freya and her parents, we all headed to Nashville's symphony hall for a bass and mandolin performance by Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile. Well... as much as Alie and I appreciated the symphony scene (and we did! they were fantastic musicians!!) we didn't feel that this was exactly what we needed to fulfill our musical requirements for the evening. After the symphony, we headed for Broadway and found more bars than you could count on two hands, all with live bands and no cover charge -- if only Boston worked this way!! All in all, we had a fantastic time exploring Nashville's Tuesday night music scene. And we've gotta put in a plug for this guy, our band of choice for the evening - Craig Campbell was awesome!! Check out a clip of his song "the whiskeys fine".
2 comments:
amyalia?
i'd collect that atmo.
I was looking at the Sacks page which led me here. The funny fruit that you were bowling with is from the Maclura pomifera, known as Osage-orange, bois d'arc, or Horse-apple tree. We had them near the house growing up and they were universally hated because someone had to clean up all the "useless" fruit lying around every year. The wood is sinuous and rot resistant and prised by Indian and modern bow makers alike. The white sappy fruit is a natural insect repellent and if cut open and left under the house, ect... will deter spiders and fleas and will keep mosquitoes away too, but give a nasty rash if rubbed on the skin.
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