Nashville Music Scene

The grand finale for Wednesday Night Wags, a six week series featuring music and art and benefitting Happy Tales in Franklin–a wonderful no-kill, not-for-profit animal shelter in Franklin, is set for this Wednesday night, which just happens to be the 4th of July. They’ve pulled out all of the stops for this one, and the artist line-up is a who’s who of some of the very best talent in the world!! Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt, Kim Carnes, Sam Bush, Mary Ann Kennedy, Jim Lauderdale, Pam Rose, plus Hamitups. Also SPECIAL GUESTS–and since we are, after all in …read more

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I received Black Crowes tix as a birthday gift (thx Scott!), but checked available tickets yesterday and last night, and although there are still good seats available (in my opinion, there really isn’t a bad seat in the Ryman), they are going fast. I’m thinking this show will sell out, as although the Crowes headlined here a year ago at Starwood, they haven’t played the Ryman since October 2005, and Crowes fans (myself included) are a pretty fanatical bunch who are more than willing to road trip for a show. Factor in the people who love them, but …read more

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Oh yeah!! The Crowes are on the road, and the party will be rolling into Nashville for an August 29th show at the Ryman (my personal favorite place to hear them, or just about anybody for that matter!!). If you’ve never seen a show at the Ryman, or you’re a Crowes fan and have never seen them at that venue, you’re in for a treat. The acoustics have to be heard to be believed, plus there’s an awful lot of magical, mystical, musical karma in and around the joint.
Tickets are available through the Ryman box office, www.Ryman.com or phone at …read more

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Since today is my own personal birthday, I thought it would be appropriate to write my very first post as b5’s Nashville (Nashvegas to the locals) blogger. I’m both a native Nashvillian (that rare and mystical creature) and a music freak (that part isn’t too unusual around here). Growing up in Nashville, you can’t help but know folks in the business–you live next door to them, work with them at their day job, are related to them, date them, and so on and so on, and of course the music scene here is legendary. Although a lot …read more

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