Hot times in Nashville!
I feel like I’ve been to outer space and back, although it was actually to the great Northwest for a couple of weeks. I was in Seattle for three days, then out on an Alaskan cruise, and then to Victoria, B.C. and on to Vancouver. It was gorgeous, and the weather was sooo lovely–highs in the 70s in Seattle, and 60s in Alaska as opposed to the triple digits Nashville has been experiencing. Of course, the day I got home, we hit 107 in Nashvegas–just hotter than blister!! And the only thing hotter than the thermometer is the music scene!!
I picked up several mags to read on the plane and in the airport on the way out, as we had a long travel day flying from Nashville to Dallas, a 3 hour layover, and then a long flight to Seattle, and who did I see in every single one? Ryan Adams for one (playing in Nashville at the War Memorial on October 23), Paramore for another–they are in pretty heavy video rotation these days, and their new CD Riot is blowing up.
I’ve spent the past couple of days getting my computer unkinked–as my modem got toasted while I was away, and for some reason it was a major production getting the new one hooked up (but thanks to Chris at Comcast, I am finally back online after multiple calls and some annoying technical troubles), and trying to catch up on everything going on around town. Interpol is coming to town, along with Spoon (love them!) at the Cannery, Hank III is playing the Cannery along with Rev. Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy (although I did know this before I left) in November, Drive-By Truckers, also at the Cannery. Alison Kraus & Union Station at the Sommet, and about a million great shows at the Exit/In, Mercy Lounge, Bluebird, Station Inn, and on and on.
One thing that was really cool on the trip was the fact that when anyone asked where I was from and I said Nashville–they all had questions for me about my hometown. And it made me more than a little homesick when we hit Alaska and heard country music everywhere!! Although I don’t always listen to country here at home on a daily basis, I did grow up with it, and do listen to it regularly (I just listen to a lot of other things along with it!), but when you’re 3000 miles away, and you hear songs coming out of the speakers that you are so familiar with on so many levels, it’s at once comforting and melancholy all at the same time.
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