Morning all B3nny returns from Nashville

[Sir B3na1i]

Alright all?

What a week we had last week! Incredible from start to end. Nashville will definitely be getting future visits from Mr and Mrs B, probably shorter visits with other areas visited around there. Had so many great moments. Too many to list. But basically, I got very emotional in Sun Studios knowing the great history of that place, the place that birthed so many influential artists that I still love today. I felt impressed and sad at the quality of talent on show in the bars on Broadway, almost every band we saw (and we saw a lot) was better than so much of what you hear from established artists... my sadness came from the fact that these amazing talents will likely be singing and playing for tips for their whole careers. Seeing Don Schultz at the Grand Ole Opry was so special, the guy wrote The Gambler and you could just walk past him in the street and never know, such a great unassuming talent.

We've been back a few days but I just haven't wanted to rejoin the real world for a while. It feels like we went on a week long music festival and I've been coming down from the buzz.

Ignored the football

[OneBeat]

Not everyone wants to "make it", some just love making and playing music. Glad you had a good time. I have no interest in going back to the US, but there are some great places there.

I've been spending the day editing a podcast I recorded with some friends a couple of day sago. Jeez, we talk a lot of bollocks.

[Furry Frank The Combat Wombat]

Afternoon

Glad you had a great trip Sir B3na1i .. will definitely add Nashville to our US road trip (will have to wait a couple of years, as will need at least a couple of months so will have to stop working first).

PS (also Sir B3na1i ) Richard Herring is playing Hedge End this evening with his Can I Have My Ball Back tour about testicular cancer, which might be of interest if you can be bothered to get out the house after just getting back, according to his titter there are still tickets available.

Nice weather here, but I'll be working late.. especially galling as there's a work do out this evening but I probably won't make that the way it's going. Hopefully I'll get to see some of the long weekend, though... although the forecast is unconvincing.

Meanwhile, work has taken on a slightly Hitchcockian vibe as a seagull has decided to take up residence on the aircon unit on the flat roof outside the windows of our office. All morning it's been pecking at the window and cackling like Sid James... it's properly doing our nuts in.

[Mandochris]

Glad you enjoyed Nashville. I tend to avoid Broadway these days, but there are still some good bars around. Tootsie's is normally fun ad it's true, the musicianship is incredible - even the buskers are better than many of musicians who call themselves professionals in France (it's easy to be a pro artist in France).
The studios really do reek of history and I can totally understand how you got all emotional.
My friend Alison Brown owns Compass Records who are in the last remaining recording studio on Music City Row, affectionately called Hillbilly Central since the 1950s. Waylon and Johnny and Carl Perkins all recorded there. There is this HUUUGE safe they couldn't move out, so it's there. Rumour has it that is where Waylon kept his dubious substances. They have completely done up the house and left the studio in its original condition and they still use it as their recording studio. Every time I go in there, an overpowering desire to hush comes over me.
Here she is playing a tune with Steve Martin in Hillbilly Central.

[Sir B3na1i]

May 3, 2024 15:06:47 GMT Mandochris said:

Glad you enjoyed Nashville. I tend to avoid Broadway these days, but there are still some good bars around. Tootsie's is normally fun ad it's true, the musicianship is incredible - even the buskers are better than many of musicians who call themselves professionals in France (it's easy to be a pro artist in France).
The studios really do reek of history and I can totally understand how you got all emotional.
My friend Alison Brown owns Compass Records who are in the last remaining recording studio on Music City Row, affectionately called Hillbilly Central since the 1950s. Waylon and Johnny and Carl Perkins all recorded there. There is this HUUUGE safe they couldn't move out, so it's there. Rumour has it that is where Waylon kept his dubious substances. They have completely done up the house and left the studio in its original condition and they still use it as their recording studio. Every time I go in there, an overpowering desire to hush comes over me.
Here she is playing a tune with Steve Martin in Hillbilly Central.

That's awesome