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CONTENTS NEWS

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22 Nashville’s Opioid Abatement Programming

This week on the Scene’s news and politics blog

The first funds from opioid lawsuit settlements will be put into action in Nashville this year

COVER PACKAGE: STORIES TO WATCH IN 2024

13 The Coming Development of Nashville’s East Bank With a new Titans stadium set to open in 2027, development will soon begin within the 338-acre plot

BY ELI MOTYCKA

14 A Transit Referendum Could Land on the November Ballot The mayor’s office is also moving forward with a new North Nashville transit center and a new director of transit and mobility

BY NICOLLE PRAINO

14 What’s to Come at the Ballot Box This year’s elections will include races for state House and Senate, U.S. Congress and more

BY STEPHEN ELLIOTT

16 Lee’s Push for a Statewide Voucher System The governor’s controversial plan has already garnered significant criticism from public school advocates

BY KELSEY BEYELER

16 The Future Is Murky for the Tennessee Titans

BY HANNAH HERNER

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31 Right in the Kisser Japanese comfort food spot is a new knockout in East Nashville

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35 Blazing the Trail Aime Alley Card’s new book tells the story of the TSU Tigerbelles’ triumph over discrimination

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36 What Was Up With Nashville’s New Year’s Eve Broadcast?

With its era of contention over, the franchise looks ahead

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18 Moving Beyond Freddie O’Connell’s First 100 Days Nashville’s mayor will continue to wrestle with transit, development and city operations

BY ELI MOTYCKA

18 Deepening Investment in Affordable Housing A recent study named Nashville the No. 7 metro area in the country for pent-up buyer demand

BY NICOLLE PRAINO

20 Mitigating Airport Traffic

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BY MARY LIZA HARTONG

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39 Happy Returns Allison Russell marks a new era of joy with The Returner

BY JACQUELINE ZEISLOFT

41 Through the Lens Amanda Gardier taps into a jazz tradition on Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

BY ELI MOTYCKA

BY SEAN L. MALONEY

With a new crop of potential hurdles to making money from recordings, how can musicians earn a living?

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22 The Clock Is Ticking on Nashville General Hospital’s Move

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42 The Short List

38 Winter’s Finest Flamingos

BNA CEO Doug Kreulen recently told reporters he has a 17-point strategy to ‘mitigate roadway congestion’

20 Streaming and the Music Economy

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WHO WE ARE

‘NEW YEAR, SAME GOAL: AN ECONOMY THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE’ JOBS. INFLATION. Unemployment. Interest rates. Price of goods. Pick your indicator — they all show that President Biden’s strategy to stabilize and strengthen the U.S. economy is moving full steam ahead. He is keeping his promises with a new theme: “New year, same goal: an economy that works for everyone.”

Take jobs, for instance. The Department of Labor’s December jobs report showed that the U.S. added another 216,000 jobs last month.

Last week, acting U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Julie Su said: “Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the American economy added 216,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate held steady at 3.7 percent, continuing the longest stretch of unemployment below 4 percent in more than 50 years.”

President Biden also shared some powerful words on the accomplishments evident from the jobs report: “This morning’s report confirms that 2023 was a great year for American workers. The economy created 2.7 million new jobs in 2023 — a year when the unemployment rate was consistently below 4 percent — more jobs than during any year of the prior administration.”

Some remarkable feats are tucked quietly into those statements. Longest stretch of unemployment below 4 percent in more than 50 years? More jobs created in 2023 than in any year of the Trump administration? President Biden is continuing his commitment to do the hard work necessary to keep America great. To borrow a country lyric, he’s also doing so with “a little less talk and a lot more action.”

Jobs are up. Unemployment is down. The good news keeps rolling in. By nearly every indicator, our country’s economy is continuing to stabilize, improve and strengthen.

“The stable economic growth of 2023, along with evidence pointing to a broad and equitable recovery, was not preordained,” continued Labor Secretary Su. “It is the result of President Biden’s vision that when we do right by workers, our economy does well, and our country gets stronger.”

Next up for discussion: inflation.

The entire globe has been challenged with rising inflation over the past few years, and the U.S. has not been immune to this hard reality.

However, as President Biden stated in August: “While we have more to do, inflation is down by two-thirds. Inflation is now down close to 3 percent, the lowest among the world’s leading economies, with wages growing faster than inflation. This matters to ordinary people.” The fact that America leads the world with the lowest inflation is a considerable accomplishment!

The price of goods is another economic indicator, and there’s good news to report there as well. As President Biden noted recently: “The

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ACTING U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR SECRETARY JULIE SU strong job creation continued even as inflation fell to the pre-pandemic level of 2 percent over the last six months, and key prices have fallen over the last year — for a gallon of gas, a gallon of milk, toys, appliances, car rentals and airline fares. American workers’ wages and wealth are higher now than before the pandemic began, adjusting for inflation.”

When President Biden first spoke to the American people after winning the 2020 presidential election, he spoke clearly of his promises. “I pledge to be a president who seeks not to divide, but to unify,” he said in November 2020. “Who doesn’t see red and blue states, but a United States. And who will work with all my heart to win the confidence of the whole people. For that is what America is about: the people. … I sought this office to restore the soul of America. To rebuild the backbone of this nation — the middle class.

To make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home.

Those are big goals and big promises.

President Biden is keeping them.

America is better for it.

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State lawmakers returned to Nashville this week for the opening of the 2024 state legislative session. Republicans hold supermajorities in both the House and Senate and claim a popular second-term governor who continues to deliver hardline conservative policies with a folksy Christian sheen. It will be another dark spring, writes columnist Betsy Phillips, based on the bills already filed for consideration and the controversies already brewing at the Capitol. After a fruitless special session in August ostensibly meant to address gun violence in Tennessee, conservatives are still running from the shadow of last year’s mass shooting at the Covenant School. A few longtime Republican lawmakers, like Franklin’s Sam Whitson, have already announced their retirement after this year, while high-profile Democratic representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson will enter the session with a year of experience. Their ranks are bolstered by newcomer Aftyn Behn, a seasoned organizer and activist who won an East Nashville special election to replace Rep. Bill Beck after his untimely death, while East Tennessee Rep. Gloria Johnson juggles lawmaking with a nascent campaign for Marsha Blackburn’s seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Behn, joined by Memphis Sen. London Lamar, is immediately challenging the state’s restrictions on abortion and related reproductive medical care. Each has filed The Fundamental Right to Reproductive Health Care Act in her chamber, which would repeal 19 state laws. Republican supermajorities in both chambers will likely give the bill minimal discussion and no chance of passing. Bringing additional light to Tennessee’s harsh abortion laws is still a priority for Lamar and Behn, who referred to the legislation as a “narrative piece” meant to “radically reimagine what’s possible in this state and to offer people that vision” in an interview with the Nashville Post. A recent poll by Vanderbilt showed that a vast majority of Tennesseans favor abortion exceptions for victims of rape or incest; currently, it would be illegal in Tennessee for such victims to terminate pregnancies.

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The Metro Nashville Police Department will reassign 10 police officers next month, the result of an investigation into pages written by the Covenant School shooter that were leaked to the media in violation of department policy and a court order. The unidentified officers currently work in MNPD’s Threat Section of the Specialized Investigations Division, according to reporting from WKRN. The shooter’s writings have been the subject of an ongoing court case that seeks the release of the documents; Covenant School parents oppose the release and previously won the opinion of Judge I’Ashea Myles, who issued an order in May to keep them private. Right-wing activists and media figures have been pushing for the public release, and in November, right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder published three pages attributed to the shooter. Police Chief John Drake confirmed their authenticity, leading to an internal Metro investigation.

Friedman’s Army Navy Store will close June 30 after more than 50 years of operating near Hillsboro Village. In addition to military clothing and small firearms, Friedman’s sells camping, hunting/ fishing and outdoor clothing, accessories and supplies. Some employees have worked at the retail business for 20 years or longer.

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THE COMING DEVELOPMENT OF NASHVILLE’S EAST BANK

With a new Titans stadium set to open in 2027, development will soon begin within the 338-acre plot

MUCH HAS BEEN promised, debated, discussed and legislated about 338 precious acres just across the Cumberland River from downtown. Expect the East Bank to continue as the city’s fishbowl in 2024, but with actual construction.

Mayor Freddie O’Connell — who, as a district councilmember last year, opposed the deal to finance a new Tennessee Titans stadium on the East Bank — will have to execute the plan negotiated by his predecessor, including rolling out hundreds of millions in infrastructure costs for the utilities, parks, street grids and bridges required to transform today’s industrial wasteland into a functional neighborhood.

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cleared the bond market in six packages (four backed by the city and two by the state), shedding some light on the pricey legwork that will play out over the next few years to coordinate in and around a new stadium district. In September, the outgoing John Cooper administration selected The Fallon Company to develop the city’s 30-acre East Bank slice. The Boston-based real estate group brought on local Trael Webb, formerly of Ryman Hospitality and Metro’s property division, in early 2022. Webb is expected to be the company’s Nashville point man. Last month, Metro started accepting pitches from engineering firms for its backbone boulevard.

Shovels will hit the ground very soon.

Then more shovels and more workers and more firms. This year, the area around Nissan Stadium will enter a construction cocoon, hoping to emerge in time for the Titans’ first 2027 home game. Until then, it will be a literal money pit, alternatively argued as an epic boondoggle by economists and an ambitious bet on Nashville’s future by boosters. Early in his administration, O’Connell brought on former Councilmember At-Large Bob Mendes to steer his office’s East Bank efforts alongside Cooper holdover Sam Wilcox.

East Bank material has become full-time work

for the city’s planning staff. The sheer scale of the project presents lots of chances for expensive mistakes, grift, unforeseen obstacles and political debacles. Initial Cooper selling points, like a bevy of affordable housing units and a cultural center anchored by TPAC, are closer to TBD than QED. The Titans have become a losing franchise preparing to dump their most popular player, running back Derrick Henry. New York private equity billionaire Carl Icahn still seems content holding onto his land housing an expansive scrapyard, SA Recycling (formerly PSC Metals) — a substantial piece of the East Bank puzzle that might be worth its acreage in gold. ▼

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A TRANSIT 2. REFERENDUM COULD LAND ON THE NOVEMBER BALLOT The mayor’s office is also moving forward with a new North Nashville transit center and a new director of transit and mobility

SINCE WELL BEFORE he was elected, Mayor Freddie O’Connell has touted upgrades to public transportation as a key priority. His transition committee on transit suggested a referendum be presented on the November 2024 ballot, since presidential elections tend to see high voter turnout.

“We have a new mayor whose platform included a transit funding referendum, and he won,” says Jessica Dauphin, president and CEO of the Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee.

“I think that says a whole lot about where the voters are.”

Alex Apple, O’Connell’s deputy communications director, told the Scene in November the recommendation was a “tight turnaround” but added that it wasn’t “unfeasible.” As of the first week of 2024, Apple says the mayor is still “considering whether a transit referendum should be on the ballot in November.” He also says O’Connell is working on how to use existing funding streams for traffic issues.

“You will see investments in transit and tran-

WHAT’S TO 3. COME AT THE BALLOT BOX This year’s elections will include races for state House and Senate, U.S. Congress and more

BY STEPHEN ELLIOTT NASHVILLIANS WILL GET their first of several opportunities to vote in 2024 on Super Tuesday, March 5. The presidential primary on the ballot is expected to be sleepy, with Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump expected to wrap up their respective nominations in the coming weeks and months.

But also on the ballot in March are a few key local primaries. Voters countywide will have the chance to pick a new judge for Circuit Court Division IV (the family court that handles divorces and adoptions) following the 2022 death of Judge Philip Smith. Four candidates are on the Democratic ballot, with none on the Republican ballot, meaning the winner of the Democratic primary will win the seat. Also on the March

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sit-related infrastructure in the capital spending plan,” Apple says. “The city is working toward the opening of the Rip Patton North Nashville Transit Center in the next few months. This will increase the number of crosstown routes that WeGo can offer, and it will serve as a great asset for a community that has shown a consistent willingness to embrace more public transportation options.”

Dauphin says she hears people asking for consistent bus routes that don’t have a wait time of 45 or 50 minutes between buses. She also mentions the need for decentralizing the routes and making stops more safe and accessible through sidewalk projects. That’s a big difference from the $9 billion light rail and rapid bus transit improvement proposed by former Mayor Megan

Barry, which failed by referendum shortly after Barry’s resignation in 2018.

“It’s better to take the pragmatic approach,” Dauphin says. “Be responsible with what we have, and give it a little glow-up. Make it work for us in a way it hasn’t yet, and show people that it can be reliable and a quality-of-life booster. I think once you do that, then you prove concept that people might take light rail seriously.”

O’Connell has met with the Greater Nashville Regional Council and Regional Transit Authority to work on transit ideas. He has also met with transit leaders from across the country, like Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner, at the American Public Transportation Association Conference.

Recently, the mayor named Tanisha Hall the director of transit and mobility, and another trans-

portation hire may be announced soon.

Hall will help “assess if a referendum is feasible this year,” Apple says. And if they determine that it is, she will work on that plan. He adds that Hall will also work on projects like the recent grant for Nolensville Road improvements and other federal funding opportunities for improvements.

Even though the mayor’s office is still leaving the possibility of a referendum wide open, the pressure is on from the community.

“What I’m seeing more of than ever before really is this palpable energy, if not urgency, to get some solutions,” Dauphin says. “A lot of times when you’re digging for what solutions folks are wanting, you’ll find that they’re very pragmatic, very practical updates and improvements.” ▼

ballot are primary elections for odd-numbered district seats on the Metro Nashville Public Schools board. Though some of the districts are losing incumbents, only one (District 1, including North Nashville and Joelton) is contested.

Three Democrats and one Republican will be on the primary ballots, with the winner decided in August.

August is when the action really begins, with the Aug. 1 ballot including the general elections for school board, family court judge and property assessor, plus partisan primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state House and state Senate.

Races for federal seats are so far attracting the most attention, with high-profile Democrats Gloria Johnson (a Knoxville state representative) and Megan Barry (the former Nashville mayor) launching campaigns in recent months. Though other Democrats (including 2020 nominee Marquita Bradshaw) are also running for the longshot chance to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Johnson has attracted the most attention and money, and she leads the primary handily in the limited publicly available polling in the race. Barry, meanwhile, is hoping to beat U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Clarksville Republican whose 7th Congressional District took on a

chunk of Nashville after 2022 redistricting.

Both Johnson and Barry would face steep odds in the Nov. 5 general election, though some Democrats cling to hope that their name recognition, extensive campaign experience and fundraising abilities could, at least, help boost some candidates further down the ballot.

Of the other congressional districts that took on part of Nashville in 2022, District 5, formerly represented by Democrat Jim Cooper, could again draw much of the campaign-season enthusiasm. No Democrat has yet emerged as a candidate for the seat, won in 2022 by Republican Andy Ogles by more than 13 percentage points over Democrat Heidi Campbell. But Ogles has attracted some negative publicity during his short tenure in Washington, including due to his involvement in efforts to oppose now-former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and to his exaggerated biography. Rumblings of a Republican primary challenge to Ogles continue to fester.

Though a court ruling last year would have resulted in a major shuffling of Nashville’s four state Senate districts, a higher court put off redrawing the map for now, leaving little intrigue (so far) for the Davidson County delegation’s chances in 2024.

Democratic Rep. Darren Jernigan took a job with Metro and will not run for reelection, leaving his Old Hickory and Hermitage seat in the state House open. Former Metro Councilmember Kevin Rhoten was the only official candidate to replace him, though he too just took a job with Metro. Education policy adviser Indira Dammu and gun control advocate Shaundelle Brooks have said they are considering jumping in the race.

Around the state, Democrats can’t get much lower than they already are in the legislature, where they hold 24 of 99 seats in the House and six of 33 seats in the Senate. The party will seek to make inroads in the most purple districts they can find, including suburban districts near major cities or in fast-growing places like Clarksville, as the dominant Republican Party uses its extensive resources to fend off such moves.

For many Nashville voters, the election to watch is the one that hasn’t been scheduled: Mayor Freddie O’Connell has signaled he would like to put a new transit referendum on the November ballot to take advantage of higher turnout. But that’s a Story to Watch all of its own (more on that elsewhere in this issue). ▼

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The governor’s controversial plan has already garnered significant criticism from public school advocates

BY KELSEY BEYELER

THOSE TUNED INTO Tennessee education have been embroiled in debate since Gov. Bill Lee announced his plan to push a statewide school voucher system in November.

As outlined in Lee’s announcement, the Education Freedom Scholarship Act would award 20,000 students with public money to use toward private education. Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, 10,000 “scholarships” will be reserved for students who are already eligible for vouchers, those with disabilities and those who are at or below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. The rest will be available to all other students. The program would then lead to total universal eligibility in following years.

The state already has a similar program that gives education savings accounts to more than 2,400 students at or below an income

threshold in Davidson, Shelby and Hamilton counties. Families can put these ESAs toward private-school-related costs. The controversial legislation was passed in the state House by just one vote in 2019, but was tied up in court until 2022. Though the program was successfully expanded to include Hamilton County, an attempt to expand it to Knox County failed in the state Senate during last year’s legislative session.

Considering the ESA program’s short run and rocky start, it will be interesting to watch how Republicans react to a statewide voucher push — and whose positions have changed since 2019. House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) voted against ESAs in 2019, but has shown support for Lee’s statewide voucher program.

Sexton told the Tennessee Lookout’s Sam Stockard that he views the ESA program and the the Education Freedom Scholarship Act differently because they would receive funding from different sources.

A statewide school voucher system has been widely criticized by urban and rural public education leaders alike. Proponents of expanded vouchers see it as an opportunity for more families to seek alternatives to traditional public schools. Critics argue that, in many cases, the proposed $7,075 per student is not enough to cover most private schools’ tuition and that vouchers drain much-needed funding from the public school system. (The Education Law

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LEE’S PUSH FOR 4. A STATEWIDE VOUCHER SYSTEM

GOV. BILL LEE Center ranks Tennessee 44th in per-pupil funding.)

Critics also decry the fact that vouchers enable public money to fund religious education, that private schools aren’t held to as many accountability standards as public schools, and that they can turn students away. Research about the effectiveness of vouchers varies — a November Tennessean article revealed high parent satisfaction rates for Tennessee’s ESA program, even as partic-

ipating students performed worse than their public school peers on state tests.

“I think that the state should have waited at least, and been able to prove that [the ESA program] has been effective,” says JC Bowman, executive director of Professional Educators of Tennessee. “Now you’re getting into political season … where it’s gonna be a highly contentious area, and I think that nobody can predict what will happen.” ▼

season, en route to winning Offensive Player of the Year. But the Titans lost at home to the Ravens in the playoffs, a tale as old as time.

In 2021, the Titans were — somehow, through a combination of grit, luck, trick plays and a Michael Jordan-esque ability to win close games — the top seed in the AFC. Vrabel was named the NFL Coach of the Year. Nissan Stadium was practically vibrating during the divisional round matchup with the Cincinnati Bengals … which the Titans promptly lost in frustrating fashion.

That offseason, Titans general manager Jon Robinson traded away star wide receiver A.J. Brown to the Philadelphia Eagles. Vrabel was reportedly not happy with the decision, nor was Titans owner Amy Adams Strunk. It was a major

factor in Robinson’s firing later that year.

The Titans have gone 13-21 since the trade, which at the time (and even more so with hindsight) felt like the franchise’s Super Bowl window being voluntarily slammed shut. At this season’s trade deadline, the Titans dealt Kevin Byard — the Mayor of Murfreesboro himself — to the Eagles. Henry will most likely sign with a contender when his contract is up after the season. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill seems spent, and despite Will Levis showing some promise, fans are afraid to embrace the 24-year-old as the signal-caller of the future. It’s an understandable fear considering what happened to past QBs Vince Young and Marcus Mariota after impressive rookie seasons.

Jeffery Simmons, ever dominant even during losses, is a worthy foundational defensive player to build upon, but the rest of the roster is made up mostly of veterans left over from the contending days or young players who have yet to make a mark. Fans and analysts alike spent most of the season debating whether the Titans should tank for a higher draft pick, something that seems unlikely with Vrabel at the helm.

Will he be patient enough to sit through a potentially long rebuild?

Most signs point to 2024 being another year of wandering the desert for the Titans. For a franchise that’s had more than its share of mediocrity, a dormant period might actually be easier to stomach, as long as there is a clear goal of future contention in mind. With a $2.1 billion stadium on the way, the countdown is on for the franchise to produce a watchable product. ▼

THE FUTURE 5. IS MURKY FOR THE TENNESSEE TITANS With its era of contention over, the franchise looks ahead

THE WINDOW WAS open. From Jan. 4, 2020, to April 28, 2022, the Tennessee Titans were Super Bowl contenders.

For all the shit former Titans coach Jeff Fisher took for consistently finishing 8-8 (or thereabouts), his successors’ records didn’t journey far from the .500 mark. The last two Mike Mularkey teams finished 9-7. The first two Mike Vrabel squads? You guessed it, 9-7. As much excitement and momentum as there was behind Vrabel, the team felt a lot like the same old Titans.

But then the 2019-20 playoffs happened.

Despite another 9-7 season, the Titans shocked the league during the postseason. First, they knocked off defending Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots on the road. The last game of Tom Brady’s time with the Patriots — the NFL’s Evil Empire — ended with a Logan Ryan pick-six.

In the divisional round, the Titans disposed of their longtime postseason kryptonite, the Baltimore Ravens, with ease. Baltimore was the AFC’s top seed and employed the MVP, Lamar Jackson. It didn’t matter. In the AFC Championship Game, Tennessee faced the mighty Kansas City

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MIKE VRABEL Chiefs at a raucous Arrowhead Stadium. Despite the odds, the Titans were winning 17-14 with just a few seconds left before halftime. People across the state were calling their financial advisers as they looked up the price of Super Bowl tickets.

But we all know what happened next: Patrick Mahomes scrambled 27 yards for a touchdown, and the Chiefs went on to win the Super Bowl.

It was a brutal loss, but the Titans were young and hungry, with a coach who seemingly everyone believed in. The next two seasons were the most successful for the franchise since its first years in Nashville.

In 2020, the Titans won the AFC South and Derrick Henry became just the eighth running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a

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MOVING BEYOND 6. FREDDIE O’CONNELL’S FIRST 100 DAYS Nashville’s mayor will continue to wrestle with transit, development and city operations

7. DEEPENING INVESTMENT IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING A recent study named Nashville the No. 7 metro area in the country for pent-up buyer demand

BY NICOLLE PRAINO

THE WORST OF the housing market has been left behind in 2023, according to Greater Nashville Realtors president Kevin Wilson.

“When the [Federal Reserve] gave a nod to the idea that perhaps they might lower interest rates, not once but up to three times in 2024, that has opened up a lot of buyer confidence,” says Wilson. “But it’s also loosened up the lending environment, where just based on that anticipation of lower interest rates from the Fed has given us lower interest rates now for buyers.”

He references a recent National Association of Realtors study that named Nashville as the No. 7 metro area in the country for pent-up buyer demand. The metric is based on the amount of current residents who are getting ready to buy as the market shifts, not to mention the continued growth of the whole region, with people moving to areas along Gallatin, Charlotte and Murfreesboro pikes. Wilson stresses that potential transit-oriented developments could be key in those areas.

“This is such a huge opportunity for the city

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nell’s first capital improvements budget and capital spending plan, the real power of the mayor to determine what projects get funded by the city. John Cooper, O’Connell’s predecessor, left the mayor’s office knee-deep in half-finished business, headlined by a legally binding commitment to support the construction of a new domed stadium for the Tennessee Titans and a bustling neighborhood around it. Other projects like Wharf Park downtown and the Global Mall in Antioch will demand some level of coordination and management from O’Connell’s office.

to make smart growth choices and be able to provide those units that we continue to talk about that is such a need for our city right now — to have attainable and affordable housing,” Wilson says.

If you ask just about any development stakeholder, the hundreds of acres along the Cumberland River known as the East Bank have the most opportunity for affordable housing in Nashville’s history. A report from Mayor Freddie O’Connell’s growth-focused transition committee noted that “locating a diversity of affordable housing in the East Bank should continue to be a priority.” But the group didn’t focus on the potential of that area alone.

“The O’Connell Administration should accelerate efforts to do the same for other underutilized land and buildings throughout the city,” the report states. “Specifically, it should support and advance ongoing efforts to identify Metro-owned property that would be suitable for affordable housing.”

O’Connell’s deputy communications director Alex Apple says the mayor’s office is waiting on a “unified strategy” from the Metro Planning Department’s new Housing Division, which is focused on accelerating affordable housing. He also says the administration is in progress on recommendations from the Affordable Housing Task Force report and touts the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency’s work to redevelop Cayce Place in East Nashville.

“Progress requires a public-private effort, and Metro can take a lead role,” Apple says on behalf of the mayor’s office. “Metro government

These special projects will likely fall to Cooper holdover Sam Wilcox as well as new hire Bob Mendes. Mendes was previously an O’Connell ally in the council, now brought on as the mayor’s chief development officer — a new senior-level position with a $250,000 annual salary.

O’Connell capped his transition with a memo each on transit, city operations and growth.

Most paragraphs were bureaucratic jargon. The operations memo recommended that O’Connell “​​ensure that every Metro department delivers

MAYOR FREDDIE O’CONNELL AT THE CAYCE PLACE GROUNDBREAKING

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FREDDIE O’CONNELL CLAIMED victory on a full stage at Eastside Bowl in September. It was a mirror image of his advancing to the mayoral runoff six weeks earlier in the packed Midtown event space Analog at the Hutton Hotel. The room showed off his strength: a multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual, intergenerational appeal that united the worlds of business, nonprofits, activism, neighborhood leadership and Metro boards and commissions, all in one Freddie universe. With slogans like “I want you to stay,” he positioned his campaign as a long shot against the profit-seekers controlling the city, a proxy for gentrification and real estate handouts at the expense of reliable city services. A folksy football ad pitted Freddie against cigar-chomping billionaires. His successful brand of polite populism implied fundamental change to lots of different constituencies.

Now he governs. This year will feature O’Con-

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excellent customer service, and that every Nashvillian can interact with Metro Government in the way that works best for them.” The growth memo urged the mayor to “empower Nashville’s neighborhoods to articulate and advocate for their priorities,” and “identify or create a team or entity that can bring Metro’s plans to reality.”

Two specifics stuck out: executing the development of the East Bank (addressed elsewhere in this issue) and pushing a new transit plan early enough for a November referendum vote (also covered in this issue).

In 2024, we will be watching whether and how O’Connell rolls out a citywide transit plan that will equitably, efficiently and comprehensively address the city’s car-centric transportation infrastructure and its scourge of pedestrian and cyclist deaths. This was the main pillar of his campaign’s central promise — before you move away, give me a shot at fixing Nashville’s growing pains — and must vanquish the specter of failure under Megan Barry, whose mass transit plan was shot down by many of the same sorts of neighborhood advocates as in the O’Connell coalition. The mayor draws praise for how comfortably he moves between rooms, and he will have to manage inevitable fractures in this big tent. Tensions have already begun to emerge from the O’Connell administration’s push for new police TASERs, and an equivocal administration response to Israel’s mass killing in Gaza. ▼

and housing developers are responding to this challenge by creating and retaining affordable housing. We’ve continued to build new tools like a mixed-income payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) model.”

Apple highlights the Barnes Housing Trust Fund portfolio, which now has more than $100 million and has created almost 4,500 units with nonprofit partners. Nonprofit affordable housing developer Urban Housing Solutions has created 935 of those units.

“The recipe for success for us really requires partnerships, and it’s mostly public-sector partnership and sponsorship for deeper affordability,” says Brent Elrod, managing director of planning and development for Urban Housing

Solutions. “Increasingly, that public-sector support is necessary even just for basic feasibility, just because the costs are so high now and competition is fierce.”

Elrod says more for-profit developers are considering how affordable housing can be a part of their business model, and larger companies that develop workforce housing have started to move into the area. At the same time, he says more of the local philanthropic community has begun to put resources toward nonprofits doing affordable housing development.

“I think I’m feeling more optimistic about how the end of 2024 will look for our capacity as a community to be able to finance affordable housing,” Elrod says. ▼

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MITIGATING 8. AIRPORT TRAFFIC

BNA CEO Doug Kreulen recently told reporters he has a 17-point strategy to ‘mitigate roadway congestion’

STREAMING 9. AND THE MUSIC ECONOMY

With a new crop of potential hurdles to making money from recordings, how can musicians earn a living?

BY STEPHEN TRAGESER

IN OUR VASTLY imperfect world, musicians increasingly have to focus on live performance and income streams like merchandise sales to make a living. Even household names like Snoop Dogg have called out major players in streaming like Spotify for notoriously low royalty payments.

In November, Spotify announced updates to its royalty system that the company says are intended to curtail fraud, among other concerns. Coming changes include ceasing royalty payments on tracks with fewer than 1,000 yearly streams. Musicians may not be banking on that revenue — Spotify estimates the average payout for each track that it will no longer monetize would be about 3 cents per month — but the move comes across like the Sheriff of Nottingham taxing the poor to feed the rich and coming by later to rob them. Bandcamp, meanwhile, is sometimes thought of as the anti-Spotify, where fans can stream music as well as buy physical records, downloads and other

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November, the courts ruled Tennessee’s effort unconstitutional, restoring power to Nashville’s mayor-appointed MNAA.) The airport is in the middle of a billion-dollar overhaul to accommodate expanding national and international service and an ever-increasing number of travelers.

The traffic remains a sore spot. In December, Mayor Freddie O’Connell brought in BNA CEO Doug Kreulen to explain the airport’s backup reduction plans. Kreulen told reporters that BNA has a 17-point strategy to “mitigate roadway congestion,” including measures like free garage access for stays less than 30 minutes and moving

merch. However, Bandcamp’s founders sold the company in 2022, its new owners sold it again in 2023, and extensive layoffs leave doubts about the platform’s future.

How can musicians afford to keep making music? Artist manager Justin Causey, whose team works with folks in Nashville hip-hop like Brian Brown, identifies three areas of focus. “[Brown] may get a couple of checks here and there from Bandcamp or SoundCloud,” says Causey, “but when it really comes to locking in a fund and, like, us to have budgets, we use merchandise and show money, as well as songwriting and sync licenses.”

Brown recently launched an artist store on Amazon. For a cut of sales that Causey feels is reasonable, Amazon handles pretty much everything except sourcing the artwork and approving mockups. Establishing relationships with people in and around music publishing — like Sorted Noise, which has developed a music catalog specifically for film and TV — has yielded Brown track placements on The CW’s All American and MTV’s The Challenge U.K. While this generates revenue, it also gets his work heard far outside Nashville. Capitalizing on Brown’s fan base in other locations — which Causey knows he has, thanks to analytics — is vital going forward.

“He’s opened for some very notable names — there’s no question that he is able to do these shows,” Causey says. “It’s just getting the opportunity to either go on tour with a headlining artist, or for somebody to back us and just be

rideshare pickup. Most of the changes — like garage access and an additional ingress lane from the highway to the terminal — enable BNA to pack more cars on its property, theoretically taking them off the highway. Actually increasing throughput rests on the difficult problem of expanding access points to the terminal, allowing more passengers to get in and out faster.

Kreulen also pointed to the 22 buses that run through the airport every day. In order to take cars off the road, it’s necessary to actually take cars off the road. “The garage, the fifth floor, has been stiffened to the tune of $5 million to

MICHAEL EADES like, ‘Hey, we’re gonna put you in these clubs, just get there.’”

For nearly 15 years, Michael Eades’ YK Records has been a home for musical projects that aren’t necessarily lucrative, but that Nashville’s music communities would be much poorer without.

While high-quality physical releases have always been key for the label and its roster, Eades points out the importance of streaming for music discovery.

“A lot of people are gonna hear a band on streaming, and just throw it in a playlist or give it a like, and maybe they’ll hear it more often,” Eades says. “And hopefully, that’ll push it over the threshold so that they’ll get some payouts.

But a percentage of those listeners will also go look up that artist, and find them on Instagram and follow them or go look at their official website [and buy records, merch or tickets]. You kind of just hope that there’s interested parties that are willing to dig a little deeper from streaming. … That’s the audience that we’re looking for.”

receive two inbound-outbound light rail trains,” Kreulen said. “As we head to a new initiative, we’re waiting for that, so that we can plan the other future structures to leave a path for that to arrive and depart.”

Watch for O’Connell’s expected transportation plan to start with airport traffic.

It has the need, infrastructure and buy-in, and would be a very public win for O’Connell on a signature issue and a proof of concept for bus rapid transit or direct light rail — two possible paths for taking cars off the interstate. ▼

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NOTHING UNITES OLD Nashville more than complaining about traffic. They say you could get anywhere in the city in 12 minutes a decade ago; five years ago, it was anywhere in 15 minutes. Anecdotal congestion metrics are a perfect proxy for people who want to point out the practical pains of Nashville’s population boom. Traffic is easy to point to — universally frustrating and clearly caused by too many people vying for too little space, a problem of planning and infrastructure as well as rapid growth.

If bad traffic is a symbol for an overcrowded city, routine backups from the airport onto I-40 are the city’s symbol for bad traffic. Highly visible congestion (including eyewitness accounts of anxious drop-offs rolling luggage on the side of the interstate) has put an exclamation point on Nashville’s worst drawback: We’re too popular for our own good, and locals pay for it.

State lawmakers thrust the Metro Nashville Airport Authority into the spotlight last year with a bid to vacate and reconstitute its board. (In

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JUSTIN CAUSEY Eades notes that, along with old-school tactics like getting fans on an email list, Bandcamp remains a significant part of YK’s approach.

People know to come to Bandcamp to find music and the stuff that goes with it, so there is a built-in audience that a stand-alone web store can’t match. While those who purchase music downloads are in the minority, a band like rock veterans Tower Defense can see some income from printing up a cool T-shirt and bundling it with a download, as they did with their recent EP Never Mind the Menagerie. If Bandcamp does disappear, Eades is keeping an eye on up-andcoming alternatives including Nina, Sone and Ampwall.

“I don’t know that I have a magic answer,” says Eades. “Our sort of North Star for everything is, ‘Just enjoy the work.’ Enjoy writing songs, recording songs, making videos, things that are sort of the creative part of it. Like, really let yourself enjoy that, and let that roll into the promotional part of it, because [that] can be such a slog.” ▼

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NASHVILLE’S 11. OPIOID ABATEMENT PROGRAMMING The first funds from opioid lawsuit settlements will be put into action in Nashville this year

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THE CLOCK IS 10. TICKING ON NASHVILLE GENERAL HOSPITAL’S MOVE

The city’s safety-net hospital’s lease on the Meharry Medical College campus is set to expire in 2027

BY HANNAH HERNER

DR. JOSEPH WEBB, CEO of Nashville General Hospital, told Scene sister publication the Nashville Post back in March that he’d wanted to get started on a new site for the city’s safety-net hospital before then. With new Metro Hospital Authority Board Chair Frank Stevenson now in place and a new mayoral administration well underway, perhaps 2024 is the year we’ll see big

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moves from the hospital, whose lease on Meharry Medical College’s campus is set to expire in 2027. The clock is ticking more and more loudly to pick a site and begin construction.

But there are a few things standing in the way. The Nashville General Hospital administration wants the city to donate a plot of land and serve as the guarantor. Additionally, the hospital is looking for an investor to help get the building off the ground, Webb told the Post in September 2022. An investor has yet to be named, and a plot of land has yet to be donated. Nashville General spokesperson Cathy Poole says the hospital will work to secure funding after the land is identified and acquired.

In February of last year, the hospital released renderings that included a separate tower dedicated to behavioral health. The renderings also featured a shorter, more spread-out design than the hospital’s current compact 11-floor setup. The new site could include housing to further diversify funding streams, Webb added

at the time. The hospital originally eyed a MetroCenter plot home to soccer fields managed by the Metro Department of Parks and Recreation for its new locale, but has since said they are not limited to that site.

Meharry Medical College has pushed back against the move as well. When Nashville General announced new site plans in 2022, longtime partner Meharry bristled at the notion, but the two entities have since seemingly mended their relationship, with Webb later promising teaching opportunities at the new location.

Despite the hospital planning for years to move locations, communications with the mayor’s office and Metro Parks have stalled.

Poole says there is a meeting scheduled for mid-January. Says mayor’s office spokesperson Alex Apple: “A meeting with Dr. Webb is on the list of the many department head briefing meetings that we are in the process of scheduling. We anticipate that meeting soon.” ▼

THERE WILL BE funding aplenty to address substance use disorder prevention and treatment in Nashville in the coming years. The question is, how will city leaders choose to spend it?

Nashville is expected to receive $23 million from various lawsuits in the next 18 years due to settlements from companies that made, distributed or sold opioid painkillers. Those include Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and Walmart, and the payments are part of much larger amounts filtering into the state. The first of those funds will be put into action this year.

The Nashville-Davidson County Opioid Settlement Steering Committee has released a request for proposal for a 15-month pilot program, which focuses on connecting people to recovery, including medication-assisted treatment and short-term stays in recovery homes, as well as the hiring of peer recovery specialists.

The pilot program will assist 50 to 60 individuals who have been hospitalized, incarcerated, administered naloxone (a treatment for opioid overdose) or referred by outreach services. The program will use a portion of the available funds and will have to be approved by the Metro Council.

As more national lawsuits are settled, the funds will continue to grow. The money flowing into the state is broken down into a number of sub-funds: • 15 percent goes directly to counties, including $23 million to Davidson County so far • 15 percent goes to the Tennessee General Assembly to spend as it chooses • 70 percent goes into a bank account, managed by the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council, called the Opioid Abatement Trust Fund.

• Of that 70 percent, 35 percent is divided by the counties, but each county will have to certify that it complies with a list of strategies from the council.

Davidson County received $3 million from this category in February.

• The remaining percentage is open to grant proposals, for which details were released in September In September, the Tennessee Opioid Abatement Council opened applications for $600 million over the next 18 years. After evaluating the pilot, the Davidson County steering committee will decide whether to request additional funds from the council. ▼

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1/19 & 1/20 THE EAGLEMANIACS: THE MUSIC 2/6 THE HERCULEONS WITH SPECIAL GUEST 2/25 JAMES MCMURTRY WITH OF DON HENLEY AND THE EAGLES MIKE FARRIS BETTY SOO 1/21 VERA BLOOM WITH BADCULTURE 3/2 ERIC GALES 2/7 EMILY WEST 1/23 THE HERCULEONS WITH SPECIAL GUEST 2/8 JACKOPIERCE WITH RACHEL LOY 3/7 TEDDY THOMPSON PRESENTS RODNEY CROWELL MY LOVE OF COUNTRY 2/9 RUBIKS GROOVE 1/24 RED WANTING BLUE WITH IAN HARRISON 2/10 VINYL RADIO 3/16 WORLD TURNING BAND 1/26 OCIE ELLIOTT WITH JOSHUA HYSLOP 2/14 VALENTINES DAY WITH WENDY MOTEN 3/19 THE FRENCH CONNEXION 3/22 RESURRECTION: A JOURNEY TRIBUTE SOLD OUT! 2/15 EDDIE 9V WITH MYRON ELKINS + 3/30 GUILTY PLEASURES 1/27 YACHT’S LANDING BEE TAYLOR 3/31 SARAH SHOOK & 1/30 THE HERCULEONS WITH SPECIAL GUEST 2/17 THE LONG PLAYERS THE DISARMERS JONELL MOSSER 2/20 CARBON LEAF 2/2 SIXWIRE & FRIENDS 2/21 JAMIE FLOYD WITH CASSIDY DANIELS 4/12 THE FLOATING MEN SOLD OUT! 2/3 MIDNIGHT RIDERS + JOHNNY NEEL 2/24 JAMES MCMURTRY WITH BETTY SOO 4/13 THE FLOATING MEN SOLD OUT!

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PIRATES OF GREAT GERSHWIN! THE CARIBBEAN: Nashville Symphony Byron Stripling, conductor Tony DeSare, piano

DEAD MAN’S CHEST IN CONCERT

Visual Artist in Residence Open House | doughjoe Saturday, January 13 | 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm

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KRISTIN CHENOWETH Nashville Symphony Rob Berman, conductor

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VIDEO GAMES LIVE with the Nashville Symphony

FEB 2 & 3 | 7:30 PM Classical Series

CLYNE, MOZART, AND PROKOFIEV with the Nashville Symphony

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LUNAR NEW YEAR with the Nashville Symphony

FEB 8 TO 10 | 7:30 PM FirstBank Pops Series

PATTI LABELLE with the Nashville Symphony

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ROMANCE AT THE SYMPHONY: CINEMA’S ICONIC LOVE THEMES with the Nashville Symphony

LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Presented without the Nashville Symphony.

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THE ENACTOR PRODUCTIONS INCUBATOR

Becca Hoback has long been a driving force in Nashville’s independent contemporary dance community, known for both her innovative solo work and thrilling collaborative efforts. And while there’s certainly no shortage of exciting work happening in the city, smaller companies and freelance dancers often struggle to find adequate support systems and opportunities. In response, Hoback recently introduced the Enactor Productions Incubator, which she hopes will serve as “a catalyst for independent and underrepresented professional artists in the Nashville contemporary performance scene, aspiring to connect them to new audiences.” The Incubator will present its first Studio Showcase Thursday night at DancEast, featuring four multidisciplinary artist projects including Clay Steakley’s The Fire Cycle; Spencer Grady and Phylicia Roybal’s Mauve Tape; Lenin Fernandez’s I have always been present with the illusion; and Sangeetha Ekambaram’s Visionary Vocal Collaborative. It’s sure to be a great celebration, and guests can look forward to a silent auction, refreshments and plenty of dancing. Proceeds will go to support participating Incubator artists. Keep an eye out for project presentations in April. AMY STUMPFL 7 P.M. AT DANCEAST 805 WOODLAND ST.

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[HOWWWWWWDEEE!]

OPRY AT THE RYMAN

Toss on your long johns and head to the local tabernacle, because one humdinger of a Grand Ole Opry lineup hits the Ryman stage this weekend. Part of the long-running show’s Opry at the Ryman winter relocation, the Friday concert at the hallowed Mother Church of Country Music will feature appearances from hitmaking duo the Brothers Osborne, Americana trendsetter Lucinda Williams, trusted storyteller Maggie Rose, and the onetwo singer-songwriter punch in Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris. That’s not a bad way to spend any Friday night, much less a Friday night in January — one of the slowest months of the year for live music. (I mean, Lucinda and Emmylou on the same bill? Come on!) Can’t make it? Don’t sweat. Listeners local and abroad can always tune into the show via wsm.com or WSM 650 AM, the same station that’s been filling airwaves with Opry shows for nearly a century. MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER 7 P.M. AT THE RYMAN 116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.

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HOWARD HEWETT

Howard Hewett has excelled in both group and solo outings, while nicely fitting his mellow, soulful voice into numerous idiomatic situations. He initially began in the ’70s as a featured member of a West Coast group, Beverly Hills, that enjoyed more success overseas than in America. But late in the decade upon returning to America, Hewett saw his career explode when he joined forces with fellow singers Jody Watley and Jeffrey Daniel in the trio Shalamar. It was Hewett’s vocal power that was at the center of their biggest hits from 1979 until the mid-’80s.

Shalamar was also featured on the Grammywinning soundtrack for Beverly Hills Cop with “Don’t Get Stopped in Beverly Hills.” Hewett would later enjoy solo success in the ’80s and early ’90s, scoring radio hits from the albums I Commit to Love and Forever and Ever, and singing the version of “Soul Man” that served as the second-season theme song for ABC’s Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. He also began expanding his range, doing gospel and holiday albums and contributing to smooth-jazz releases from The

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12:30 P.M. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE. [FEELING CRAFTY?]

CRAFT A NEW YEAR

SKYWAY MAN [REAL TALK]

DAVE HOLLISTER

Although vocalist Dave Hollister has expertly adjusted his sound and approach to retain popularity and relevance in changing times, his overall sensibility and style are deeply rooted in the classic gospel and soul modes.

A cousin of the duo K-Ci & JoJo, Hollister has also worked his way through the ranks of R&B and soul, with his first major impact coming as the lead vocalist on the Blakk Society hit “Just Another Lonely Day.” He later supported such performers as Father MC and Hi-Five as a background vocalist. He was part of the Force One Network — his voice appears on the Tupac hit “Brenda’s Got a Baby” — and the R&B group Blackstreet, but it was always evident he would eventually blossom on his own. By the late ’90s, his music had been featured in multiple films, and he enjoyed a pair of gold singles, “My Favorite Girl” and “One Woman Man,” in 2002. Hollister switched to gospel in 2006 and had a pair of hit releases with The Book of David: Vol.1 — The Transition and Witness Protection.

He returned to secular material in 2010, and his most recent LPs Chicago Winds ... The Saga Continues and The Manuscript have again helped him regain R&B and soul popularity. Hollister will take fans through all the stages of his career Saturday at City Winery. RON WYNN 8 P.M. CITY WINERY 609 LAFAYETTE ST.

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WINTER CLASSICS: THE GREAT SILENCE

By the time he made The Great Silence, Italian filmmaker/spaghetti-Western specialist Sergio Corbucci was already fed up with Westerns — and the world. The deaths of Che Guevara, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X inspired him to make this 1968 anti-oater about a mute gunslinger (French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant) who also serves as an avenging angel for hire.

He’s called upon by grieving townsfolk, who ask him to take out sinister bounty hunters who’ve sadistically killed their fugitive loved ones. Werner Herzog muse Klaus Kinski (who was, predictably, a reported nightmare on set) leads the psychotic charge as the aptly named killer Loco. This snowcapped shoot-’em-up (an obvious influence on Quentin Tarantino’s savage Westerns Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight) is an entertaining yarn right up until the bleak, brutal ending — a cynical, blood-soaked reflection on how hopeless and pessimistic the ’60s were getting. You’ve gotta give props to Corbucci for making a downbeat Western in which the greedy, fascist villains are ready to easily take out anyone who tries to make a difference — just like in real life.

participating in a variety of activities, including fossil searches, Jurassic Jeeps, dino scooters, obstacle courses and more. The dino obsession lifespan can range from 3 months to 3 years or beyond, but unlike dinosaurs themselves, the awe never goes away. TOBY ROSE JAN. 13-14 AT THE FAIRGROUNDS NASHVILLE 625 SMITH AVE. [BURIED TREASURE]

DIG: A RECORD BUYING EVENT

It’s time to round up your leftover holiday cash and hit the bins, audiophiles. A new record-buying show — aptly called Dig: A Record Buying Event — debuts this weekend inside The Factory at Franklin. Hosted by Luna Record Shop (an ace store in Franklin — for those who haven’t made the trek down I-65 lately, it’s a can’t-miss) and Motorsoule Vintage, the event boasts a 14,000-square-foot space inside Liberty Hall for vendors dishing vinyl, CDs, T-shirts and other vintage collectables.

Those wanting to partake in the dig can purchase general admission entry for $5; a ticket grants access to about 70 vendor tables, per the hosts on social media. Doors open at 11 a.m., but collectors wanting to dig in early can purchase a VIP ticket for $10 and start excavating at 10 a.m.

CRAIG D. LINDSEY

MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER

JAN. 13 & 17 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

11 A.M. AT THE FACTORY AT FRANKLIN 230 FRANKLIN ROAD

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KIDS

Along with its wide-ranging collections, exhibitions and community programs, the Tennessee State Museum also offers a wide range of educational opportunities and events.

This weekend, the museum is once again teaming up with Tennessee Craft to present its popular workshop series Craft a New Year.

Each class in the series offers a one-day course

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There’s something timeless about dog movies, and Disney’s 1961 canine caper 101 Dalmatians is in the pantheon of the greatest dog movies ever made. Whether enjoyed by boomer kids seeing it in the initial theatrical release or their children popping the VHS cassette out of one of those noxious-smelling white plastic Disney cases, the story speaks to all generations. But the film’s plot, taken from Dodie Smith’s book of the same title, still feels quite contemporary. It’s the story of songwriter Roger Radcliffe, who struggles to make ends meet with his wife Anita as the two just can’t seem to stop adopting dogs. The antagonist, one of the most ruthless Disney villains, is Cruella de Vil — a truly vile clothing designer from a wealthy family who constantly tries to intimidate the Radcliffes. These sorts of characters feel just as concrete as ever, as if they were pulled straight off the back patio at Mickey’s Tavern and thrown into a dog adventure. But given that the two showings are on the weekend at lunchtime, it’s easy to share the Radcliffes with the newest generation.

SHOPPING

101 DALMATIANS

[LIFE FINDS A WAY]

DINOSAUR ADVENTURE

Kids are fabulous obsessives. Instead of generalists — lightly grazing a variety of topics — they often do a deep dive on a single subject, absorbing every fact they can stuff inside their surprisingly pliable memories. And as you know if you’ve spent any time with children, many of them are obsessed with dinosaurs. Can you blame them? If you’re fortunate enough to still be keeping company with a miniature human who corrects your pronunciation of “therizinosaurus,” you’ll want to catch Dinosaur Adventure at The Fairgrounds Nashville.

Families can experience the prehistoric age by seeing roaring, realistic, life-size dinosaurs and

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SATURDAY / 1.13

designed to get you started in one of Tennessee’s favorite craft traditions. Craft a New Year opens Jan. 13 with a Choctaw beading class hosted by Sally Wells, a respected Choctaw elder and an award-winning beadwork artist, as well as the president and founder of the Native American Indian Association of Tennessee. Wells will provide a quick history of the art form, along with an overview of traditions and techniques, while leading the class to create a dreamcatcher.

Upcoming classes will cover crocheting with Martha Baird (Jan. 20) and calligraphy with Ann Cobb (Jan. 27). AMY STUMPFL SATURDAYS THROUGH JAN. 27 AT THE TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM 1000 ROSA PARKS BLVD.

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Rippingtons, Joe Sample and George Duke, among others. Hewett will spotlight his hits — both with Shalamar and on his own — during his show Friday night at City Winery. RON WYNN 7:30 P.M. AT CITY WINERY 609 LAFAYETTE ST.

[LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING]

SKYWAY MAN VINYL RELEASE

James Wallace, aka Skyway Man, is a great guide to places within ourselves and wherever it is we find ourselves. During the past quartercentury, it’s become increasingly difficult to ignore how badly we’ve damaged the universe we live in, beautiful and wondrous as it can be.

Wallace’s latest LP, Flight of the Long Distance Healer (released by Mama Bird in November), explores living through it — grounding yourself in the vital current, reaching out to others in need, not giving up despite a lack of satisfying answers. As has been the case across his work in the decade or so we’ve been following Wallace, there are parts of these latest songs that feel like

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7PM Taylor Glasheen • Dani-Rae Clark • Elise LeBlanc 9PM Jim McGuinn • Tony Hannah • Casual Drifter

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7PM Pony Up Tuesdays • hosted by Jason Erie w/ Chris Moyse • Shawn Byrne • David Childers • Abe Partridge 9PM Hallie Spoor • Jess Kerber • Marley Hale

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EAST NASH GRASS tapping into building blocks of modern pop music, from folk and gospel to Crescent City R&B and ’70s mainstream pop, and parts that feel like dispatches from a distant future or maybe even another dimension. Wallace left Nashville a few years back, but he still often works with friends in town — for a fine example, Erin Rae and Spencer Cullum appear on Flight — and a visit from him is a special occasion. On Jan. 16, he’ll land at East Side DIY arts spot Soft Junk for the release of Flight on vinyl, with support from harmony-rich songsmith duo Buck. The pair haven’t released any recorded material just yet, but the clips they’ve posted on Instagram reveal some strong songs about different kinds of relationships; give ’em a spin and get in on the ground floor. STEPHEN TRAGESER 8 P.M. AT SOFT JUNK 919 GALLATIN PIKE [BLUEGRASS GLAZE]

EAST NASH GRASS

The Max Fleischer-style animated cartoon that Nathan Morrow and Skylar Wilson put together for bluegrass band East Nash Grass’ 2023 song “Starlet Iris” works perfectly with the group’s Grateful Dead-influenced sound. The video — in which refugees from the world of Betty Boop get stoned in the bluegrass mecca of Madison, Tenn., with a crew of neo-traditionalist acolytes of Bill Monroe, complete with an apple fritter from Madison’s beloved McGaugh’s Donuts — exemplifies the good vibes East Nash Grass gives off on the 2023 album Last Chance to Win. Because I’m not convinced Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia are the best role models for songwriters already in thrall to bluegrass history, I find the material the band put together for Last Chance a bit formalistic — why would you use the phrase “I left her of an evening,” as mandolinist Harry Clark does in “Starlet Iris,” if you weren’t making some kind of point about your relationship to the music of the past? Still, the band’s retro tendencies are balanced by the pleasures of their streamlined style and the bite of Gaven Largent’s resophonic guitar work, as you can hear when you check in with them at their long-running Monday night residency at Madison venue Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge. Last Chance to Win is modern bluegrass as another aspect of a cartoonish Nashville

dreamscape, doughnuts optional — nothing wrong with that at all. EDD HURT 6:30 P.M. AT THE FORD THEATER, COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM 222 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY S.

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4PM Open Mic Night w/ Jennifer Vazquez 9PM Ellie Stone • Adam Crossley • Virginity Club

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Paul Zindel and actor/ex-con Edward Bunker punched up the story, which has Jon Voight and Eric Roberts (who scored Oscar noms for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively) as escaped convicts who hop aboard a moving locomotive that becomes unmanned when the engineer has a heart attack. A snow-covered thriller that also doubles as feral commentary on how desperate and self-serving people can get in this unstoppable ride called life, this movie is ice-cold in more ways than one. CRAIG D. LINDSEY JAN. 17 & 20 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

[NOTHING CAN STOP IT]

WINTER CLASSICS: RUNAWAY TRAIN

The 1985 actioner Runaway Train is one of the more oddly assembled blockbusters to come out of that decade. Originally planned as Akira Kurosawa’s first English-language production (starring Henry Fonda and Lee Marvin!), the script lay unmade for years until Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky (who would go on to direct the Sylvester Stallone-Kurt Russell cop buddy flick Tango & Cash) handled directing duties, and ’80s genre empire Cannon Films ponied up the financing. Playwright/YA novelist

[BOWERS BLUES POWER]

GRACE BOWERS

Achieving success as a young female guitarist in a city teeming with six-string aficionados is no easy feat, but 17-year-old Grace Bowers is not-so-quietly taking “Guitar Town” by storm. Bowers has garnered a devoted social media following since streaming live performances during the COVID-19 lockdown.

With her beloved ’61 Gibson SG in hand, Bowers is a force of nature, often losing herself in her own unbridled youthful exuberance. “Guitar is an extension of me and a way to communicate my feelings,” she told The Tennessean last month. Her blues-rock chops and excitable energy have attracted a slew of famous friends and fans around the music industry, including Nancy Wilson, Margo Price and Billie F. Gibbons of ZZ Top, to name just a few. Most recently, Bowers could be seen joining Lainey Wilson, who also enjoyed a breakout year in 2023, as part of Nashville’s New Year’s Eve Bash broadcast. Here’s a rare chance to catch a rising star up close while you still can. JASON VERSTEGEN 8 P.M. AT THE UNDERDOG 3208 GALLATIN PIKE

GRACE BOWERS

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Join us live in Nashville for a show that highlights why Southern Rounds consistently brings the heat as the premiere songwriter round in Nashville.

Hear country music’s biggest hit songs, performed by the songwriters who wrote them. Featuring hit songs from Luke Combs, Zac Brown Band, Rascal Flatts, Miranda Lambert, Johnny Cash, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, and many, many more!

DOORS: 6 PM SHOW: 7 PM GENERAL ADMISSION: $20

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The Tau Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated invites you to the 10th Annual MLK BLACKOUT Party. 2024 is a new year and the Tau Lambda Chapter steps up this year’s event with soulful live music and an interactive atmosphere, featuring Joslyn and The Sweet Compression.

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RIGHT IN THE KISSER

Kisser 747 Douglas Ave., Suite 105B kisserrestaurant.com

Japanese comfort food spot is a new knockout in East Nashville I WAS ONCE stuck overnight at LaGuardia Airport. Actually, since the airline helpfully admitted that the flight cancellation was its fault, I received a voucher that allowed me to stay not in the airport, but at a hotel nearby in New York’s second Chinatown neighborhood, in Flushing, Queens.

For my dinner needs, I was able to phone a friend who directed me to a Szechuan restaurant within walking distance of the hotel. (Not surprisingly, it was excellent, and I was the only non-Asian person in the bustling cafe.) But before leaving I did take time to browse the hotel’s room service menu. The most intriguing item was the Japanese Breakfast, a specialty that shuns typical American breakfast foods in favor of a generally healthier bento-style offering that includes grilled fish, veggies, rice and a bowl of miso soup.

That concept, of a Japanese-style savory, bacon-free breakfast bento, has lingered in my mind for years, but I’d never seen it in Nashville.

Until now, when it recently appeared as one of the stars of the menu at Kisser, the seismically popular Japanese-inspired restaurant in East Nashville’s Highland Yards complex.

Kisser opened in March, and it has proven to be a major hit. Married owners Leina Horii and Brian Lea, who both boast high-powered restaurant résumés, focus their efforts on Japanese comfort food — the kind of fare Horii enjoyed as a child, spending time with her grandparents in Japan. The name “Kisser” is a play on kissaten, the word for a kind of friendly neighborhood restaurant that has been popular for decades in Japan.

It’s worth noting that Kisser is hugely popular in spite of a couple barriers to entry. The restaurant is closed on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and on the days it is open, it operates only during lunchtime hours. No reservations are offered, so lines of aspiring Kisser diners are sometimes lengthy. I’ve heard of waits as long as 90 minutes, though on my visits I was seated within 20 minutes or so. The system entails checking in at the door by utilizing a QR code; then you receive updates on your progress via your phone.

These twists are far from deal breakers, as evidenced by the huge splash Kisser has made on Nashville’s dining scene. It earned a writer’s choice for Best New Restaurant in the Scene’s latest Best of Nashville issue. It has also garnered some national coverage, including in The New York Times and Bon Appétit.

The pump of national notice was probably primed by Kisser’s affiliation with the Goldberg brothers of Strategic Hospitality, the local company behind Bastion, The Catbird Seat and The

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savory pumpkin meat enrobed in incredibly tender green rind. In a larger square, a portion of rice was topped with furikake, the Japanese seasoning blend speckled with sesame seeds, tiny shreds of seaweed and more.

The Japanese Breakfast, which goes for $25, can be amped up with onsen tamago, a delicately slow-cooked egg ($2.50), and ikura, or salmon roe ($5.50). (Adding both gets you a bit of a discount at $7.) As mentioned, I’d been wondering about the Japanese Breakfast phenomenon for years, and I’m happy to say my pangs of curiosity were more than redeemed.

The other menu star, the Chicken Katsu Sandwich ($13), relies on another Japanese specialty: milk bread. This is a very moist, very mild white bread, made with (no surprise) milk in the batter. Two toasted squares of house-made milk bread were layered atop and below crispy fried chicken and cabbage slaw. The combination was toothsome and memorable.

Kisser also serves up noodle bowls, featuring handmade udon. The spicy miso version ($16) was my favorite, enriched with shredded duck confit and sesame duck fat in an impeccable spicy red miso broth. I loved it. The other udon bowl, with beef tataki (seared beef from local Bear Creek Farm), was good but didn’t send me stratospheric in the way the miso did. But the

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SPICY MISO UDON luxurious beef and accompanying mushrooms were definitely a cut above most noodle bowl accouterments.

And speaking of beef, Kisser’s beef tartare ($9) was remarkable. The raw beef, so sweet and rich, was a thing to savor, served on grilled slices of gelled, cooked rice (almost like a rice version of polenta). Sadly, I had to ask to skip the avocado accompaniment, because I’m allergic to what is sometimes known as the alligator pear. But I imagine the tartare would be even better when

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The cooks in the open kitchen kept the line lively, and as for the front of the house, service was friendly but unobtrusive. Though the place is always thronged, with gaggles of customers biding their time in the building’s atrium, the staff tended to each diner in a way that was efficient but never felt rushed. It was quite an experience.

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Patterson House, among other projects. Kisser, in fact, started as a pop-up that Lea and Horii staged at The Patterson House. Now, after 10 months as a brick-and-mortar spot, the team has the whole endeavor, food and service, down to a culinary science.

The tight-but-terrific menu has two stars in terms of word-of-mouth in the local food world.

One is the aforementioned Japanese Breakfast; the other is the Chicken Katsu Sandwich. On three recent visits I found both to be fully satisfying while leaving the diner eager to return for another helping.

On my visits, the bento-style box of the Japanese Breakfast was anchored by a small filet of miso-sake-marinated cobia. The succulent fish featured a bracing fermented tang from the sake marinade. It shared a compartment with tamagoyaki, slices of Japanese-style omelet.

Three little spots within the bento cube were filled by vegetable sides, some of which could also be ordered separately: a crunchy salad featuring crisp shredded cabbage in “Leina’s dad’s carrot ginger dressing”; a little nest of green beans; and the most gorgeous veggie dish I’ve had in a while, a salad crafted of Japanese pumpkin, with mizuna greens in a yuzuhoney vinaigrette. When bitten, the chunks of bright-orange pumpkin yielded soft, sweet-and-

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Rudolph won individual gold in the 100-meter and 200-meter events there and shared the same prize in the 4x100-meter relay with her teammates Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones and Martha Hudson. Card describes their performance in Rome as “the moment when the world was forced to sit up and acknowledge that women can run.”

Rudolph’s story alone is almost unbelievable, as she overcame childhood polio to be declared the fastest woman in the world and the first American woman to take home three Olympic gold medals in track and field in a single year. But Card also shines a spotlight on Rudolph’s teammates, friends and especially her beloved coach, Ed Temple, whose journeys are equally admirable and, in many ways, crucial to Rudolph’s success. In Temple’s case, his recruitment of athletes with “pure hearts and mental toughness” and his demanding training disciplines helped propel 40 women to the Olympics over the course of his decades-long career at TSU. From the beginning, the Tigerbelles were disrespected and underfunded because of their chosen sport, their race and their gender. But track and field made up for what it lacked in glamour by being the only college sport that allowed desegregated competition and provided opportunities for women to participate. Forced to train on a substandard track with inadequate

equipment under grueling conditions, the women persevered. Without a team bus or the money to pay for food or accommodations on the road, the athletes traveled to competitions by station wagon, driving all night and packing brown-bag meals. “It seemed that nothing was in their favor,” Card writes, “but still they won.”

While their contemporaries in Nashville were staging sit-ins at downtown lunch counters and picketing unfair business practices under constant threat of violence and imprisonment, the Tigerbelles were forced to find other ways to help the civil rights movement or risk losing their scholarships — their only chance at a college education — not to mention their athletic careers. Temple believed the Tigerbelles could do more for their communities through their achievements as Black athletes and the international attention they attracted. But they were far from immune to racially motivated injustice.

At an event in Texas, a bus driver refused to drive Black and white athletes to the meet on the same bus. Precious warm-up time was lost until a substitute driver could be found. Despite the affront, Rudolph set a world record in the 200-meter of 22.9 seconds later that day. It was the fastest time ever run by a woman.

A week later at the Olympic trials in Abilene, Texas, seven women from the Tigerbelles made the national team, an unprecedented number from a single program. And Ed Temple was chosen as head coach of the U.S. Olympic Women’s Track and Field Team. After the games, Temple wryly observed, “The women’s team has repeatedly been looked on as the second-class team while the men were catered to and received the best of everything. Funny, every time they announce each country’s total number of medals,

our men’s and women’s medals were all added up together.”

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Those already familiar with the history of American track and field, as well as those who have never heard of Wilma Rudolph or the other talented women introduced here, will gain much from reading about their triumph of talent, sacrifice and sheer will over ignorance, bigotry and hatred. “Temple and the Tigerbelles were ahead of their time,” Card writes. “They were trailblazers. They were legends.”

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As a longtime Nashville resident, I was disgusted to see Rob Schneider on the stage at CBS’ Nashville’s Big Bash New Year’s Eve broadcast.

Why was he there? Do people not know his politics — if you can call them that? Does he even live in Nashville? Who made that decision, and how do we push back?

—Leslie in Bordeaux THANKS FOR THE QUESTION, Leslie! I watched part of that New Year’s show. It looked like Woodstock ’99, or The Gathering of the Juggalos. I saw Rob Schneider. I didn’t know why he was there. I didn’t recognize anyone else on that stage — except for the ghost of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Fun fact: Lynyrd Skynyrd appeared as part of the “Sean Hannity Freedom Concert” series in 2010, promoting their album God & Guns. Hannity was a fan of their song “That Ain’t My America.” Here are some lyrics: “Now there’s kids that can’t pray in school, hundreddollar tanks of gas / I can tell you right now this country ain’t, ain’t supposed to be like that.”

Sound familiar? Right-wing talking points never change.

I think it’s weird that some people seem to think “low gas prices” is in the Constitution.

Or prayer in schools. Neither of them is. In fact, America was founded on the explicit principle of not imposing your religion on your neighbor, and not at all about gas, since cars hadn’t been invented.

The Confederate flag figured prominently in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s stage decor until 2019.

Lynyrd Skynyrd was an odd choice to play a New Year’s Eve celebration in 2023. There are no living original members, and they’re not even from Nashville. It’s almost as if the organizers were trying to convey a political message. But why would they do that? Country music fans often say they’re mad when artists are political — artists like Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson and Margo Price. They didn’t get mad at Jason Aldean, though. Hmmm. Would they be OK with Taylor Swift singing a song called “The President Doesn’t Set Gas Prices”?

But Lynyrd Skynyrd didn’t ruin my New Year’s Eve, Leslie. When Rob Schneider appeared on my screen, it was a different story. Here are a few of his recent tweets: “The next president of Harvard University MUST be a Black woman = 2 points! If she’s Black and a Lesbian = another 2 points!

If she is Black, a Lesbian and physically Disabled = another 3 points! Qualified to Lead a prominent University? Not required: minus ALL points!”

“Why would any sane parent in 2024 send their child to an Ivy League School?! Only 4% of the population has statistically identified as gay for decades. Now, for some reason, 20% of Gen Z identifies as LBGTQ+ and in 2023, 40% (look it up!) of Brown University identifies as LBGTQ+” “Congratulations Chicago! You elected a Lori Lightfoot with a Dick!”

“That’s why the Democrats loved covid… under the guise of ‘emergency, it gave them the opportunity to increase their state powers and diminish individual liberties…

Taking away rights.

These rights/liberties were not given to Americans by our founders fathers, they were earned through their bloodshed…”

Democrats loved COVID?! Tell that to my Democrat friend who lost both of his parents to COVID over a span of two months in 2020.

On New Year’s Eve, Rob Schneider was representing Nashville worldwide. He is not an unknown quantity in right-wing circles. He has 1.7 million Twitter followers. He spoke at this year’s Turning Point USA conference. From that speech: “So much has changed so rapidly. It’s only been a couple of years since we’ve learned that women could have dicks.”

His presence wasn’t a dog whistle to hate groups — IT WAS THE WHOLE DOG. I was reminded of when the Ryman hosted a Daily Wire event a couple of years ago.

I love Nashville. It is diverse, and not hateful.

We are allowing a few powerful people to advertise Nashville as a safe space for racists and demagogues. When I see it, I feel a responsibility to point it out. The executive producers of that show were Mary Hilliard Harrington and Robert Deaton (executive producer of the CMA Awards).

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ONE WINTER IN New Hampshire, when I was a heartbroken grad student with a stack of books beside my bed, I happened upon a trio of snow-logged plastic flamingos. I was on one of my romantic walks — not romantic as in sexy but Romantic as in Jane Austen or William Wordsworth. Homework completed, I’d apply a dab of Vaseline to both cheeks, zip on three to four coats, search the apartment for my missing left mitten, and make my way into the snowy lane.

At this point it had been almost a year since my heart had been broken, but when it’s winter and it’s New Hampshire, there’s very little to do but pine. I had sent my girlfriend a Valentine’s card, and 11 months later the card had come back with a “return to sender” stamp. I love us, I’d written idiotically. And so I walked. Past the frostbitten CVS and the green-and-white diner.

Past the little white house that said “First Church of Christ, Scientist.” I always thought it sounded like scientist was the job description. Where was the First Church of Christ, Zoologist? Or the First Church of Christ, Obstetrician? I marched onward into the snow, thinking up jobs for Jesus.

That winter I was reading Ann Patchett’s book Run, which takes place during a snowstorm. It was an old paperback copy, battered as a fish.

I’d cozy up under my electric blanket and read chapter after chapter. My roommate, who was still angry at her high school boyfriend many years after high school had ended, would knock on my door. Did I have a moment to copy edit her 12-page diatribe against him?

“Twelve pages?”

“Yes. Twelve pages, front and back.”

“That’s more like 24,” I observed.

She gave me a look that told me she was prepared to write a hundred pages. Like I said, it was cold. We were bored. The most exciting thing to happen that winter was the mouse on the counter — a plump, brown specimen that appreciated the nights when we held parties and went to sleep without bothering to toss the charcuterie board.

BACK TO THE flamingos. I was puttering

down an icy street wondering if I was lovable when I spotted them on the lawn of an old clapboard house. Houses like these seemed white in the spring, only to be revealed as dusty gray giver-uppers upon the first snowfall. I felt sorry for the house. It looked as if a smoker might have coughed on it. And yet, there were the flamingos. Bright and jolly. Pink as can be. The snow had not managed to cling to their slick, plastic bodies, and so they rose, triumphant, above the sea of white.

They became part of my routine, the flamingos. I checked on them the way you might check on a neighbor’s outdoor cat or a bookstore’s latest offerings: eagerly, often and with rapt attention. Winter wore on. The snow held fast to the lawns, and I read my way through Ann Patchett. The thing about winter — everywhere, but especially in New Hampshire — is that it always seems like it will last forever. It’s terrifically hard to fathom June when the hair in your nostrils freezes on your way to the canteen, or when a mouse will not vacate its warm spot under the sink. Looking up from my book at the empty left-hand side of the bed, I found it hard to believe that anyone would ever share my electric blanket again.

AROUND THE TIME I downloaded Tinder, my roommate caught the mouse. She chased it around the living room with a spent cottage cheese tub and, trapping it on the charcuterie platter, declared her victory. We pretended there was only one mouse in the house. A singleton, just like us.

“Where do we put it?” I wondered.

I remember the way it rustled around in the plastic. Scratching, desperate. My roommate and I had been like this all winter, but unlike our whiskered loiterer, we’d placed the cottage cheese tub over ourselves. We’d wallowed. We’d hibernated. Now, kicking open the front door, we carried the platter, the tub, and the mouse out to the driveway. And suddenly, miraculously, it was spring.

A FEW DAYS Before graduation, I took my last walk. Goodbye, CVS. Goodbye, First Church of Christ, Scientist. The houses were white again, gleaming in the tentative June sun. And there were the three flamingos, strutting up from a hearty patch of monkey grass. They knew — had always known — the seasons would change.

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HAPPY RETURNS

Allison Russell marks a new era of joy with The Returner

BY JACQUELINE ZEISLOFT

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IN THE SCENE’S 2021 AmericanaFest preview, Allison Russell joked that her nomination for that year’s Emerging Artist of the Year award reminded her of a cicada coming to the surface after 20 years underground. Russell had been a professional songwriter, poet and multi-instrumentalist for nearly that long when her solo debut Outside Child put her on the rise. In September 2023, longtime Nashvillian Russell released her second album, The Returner, on which she weaves threads of roots music, pop, R&B and disco into her tapestry of sound. Ahead of two sold-out shows at The Basement East on Thursday and Friday, we caught up with Russell about her new record, Grammy nominations and playing onstage with living legend and fellow Canada-born artist Joni Mitchell.

“If I had to describe The Returner in one sentence it would be ‘stealing joy from the teeth of turmoil and trauma and tragedy,’” says Russell.

Outside Child “broadly reconciled the past” in a folk-driven retelling of her childhood living with an abusive white stepfather. On The Returner, upbeat grooves embody celebration. She bids farewell to the darkness and thrives in the “springtime of [her] present tense.”

Joy comes to Russell in the shape of her beloved circle of collaborators. “Within my career, unprecedented doors opened for Outside Child,” she says. “When a door opens like that, my first thought is, ‘How many people can I bring through this door with me?’”

On The Returner, Russell brings in her musical community The Rainbow Coalition, which counts Chauntee and Monique Ross of SistaStrings, cellist and Americana Award winner Larissa Maestro, drummer Megan Coleman, bassist Ganessa James, and guitarists Megan McCormick, Joy Clark and Mandy Fer among its numerous members. Russell’s “big sisters” Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman — founding members of Prince’s ’80s outfit The Revolution — also made significant contributions.

Russell and her co-producers JT Nero (who’s also Russell’s partner) and Drew Lindsay wrote the record with this wrecking crew in mind.

“We were writing towards this circle of just total goddesses who we adore, who are some of our favorite musicians on the planet,” Russell says.

Recorded in six days at Henson Studios (formerly home to the legendary A&M Studios) in Hollywood, The Returner reflects a collaborative feat in its mesmerizing virtuosity and scale.

The album’s standout track is “Eve Was Black,” which is nominated for Best American Roots Performance at the upcoming Grammys — one of four nominations for Russell this year.

“I feel particularly gratified that it got nominated for an American Roots performance, because of course the Black diaspora for so many years was kind of erased from [the category],” she says. “It was whitewashed.”

Described as an open letter to her abuser,

“Eve Was Black” is about the original sin of white supremacy. Over tense strings and a thrumming beat, she sings: “Do you despise, or do you yearn to return / Back to the motherland, back to the garden / Back to your Black skin / Back to the innocence / Back to the shine you lost / When you enslaved your kin?”

“I think there’s been a real opening-up in terms of what people are able to hear and what they are able to engage with,” Russell says of the nomination. While some artists balk at formal institutions like the Recording Academy, Russell sees things differently. Engaging with the systems in place lets her bring her communities into those spaces and hopefully expands representation. “It’s as inclusive as we make it.”

On “The Returner,” Russell sings: “I can’t

think of a thing that hasn’t been born of a dream / Like a love supreme, like a circle unbroken.”

How does she stay inspired to dream and have hope for humanity in this day and age? She credits motherhood and her 9-year-old.

“I feel hope watching her and her generation,” says Russell. “I also feel galvanized to do every single thing I possibly can within my limited abilities to reduce harm for them. … There’s nothing more important to me or more urgent to me than to be part of pulling us out of our tailspin.”

Russell uses her platform to speak out and seek change in the state that’s become her adopted home. In March, she took a lead role in producing Love Rising, a benefit show at Bridgestone Arena intended to celebrate queer visibility and to push back against bigoted anti-LGBTQ

laws passed by the state legislature.

Russell has even more milestones on the horizon, including publishing a memoir. An event that may make an appearance in the book: In June, she performed as part of the Joni Jam at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state, singing and playing clarinet with Joni Mitchell at Mitchell’s first ticketed concert in more than 20 years. During an encore cover of Frank Sinatra’s “Young at Heart,” Mitchell tossed Russell a surprise clarinet solo.

“You don’t say no to Joni, but that was not planned. Then at the end of it, Joni said, ‘Allison Russell, the most beautiful clarinet player!’

I was like, ‘That is not true, but I love you so much for saying that, and I will carve it onto my gravestone.’” ▼

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THROUGH THE LENS Amanda Gardier taps into a jazz tradition on Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

BY SEAN L. MALONEY

JAZZIFYING AN ESSENTIAL indie filmmaker’s oeuvre is a fascinating concept that could go terribly wrong. But Baltimore-area saxophonist Amanda Gardier executes her new album Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson with the wit and elegance to appeal to superfans of the Asteroid City director and Anderson agnostics alike — all of whom can hear pieces from the record before its release when she brings her band to Rudy’s Jazz Room on Jan. 20. By tapping into not only the director’s sonic palette but also the history of music in cinema, she creates one of 2024’s early must-listen LPs. “I think most jazz musicians nowadays — especially people at least slightly on the younger side — we can’t fight all the influences that we’ve had musically,” Gardier tells the Scene.

“A lot of us, yes, grew up listening to traditional jazz and bebop and transcribing a lot of bebop solos and things like that. But we can’t escape the influences of modern pop music. … It’s a natural influence.”

On Auteur, you can hear Anderson’s sense of mise-en-scène, his propensity for diegesis and his use of color and structure — all the tools he uses to make his films such distinctive, immersive experiences — without hearing anything plucked directly from the two-and-a-half decades of scores and soundtracks to his filmography. It is a tribute that uses cinema as a starting point and runs with it. Imbued with a sense of adventure and the sound of talented musicians having a great time, Auteur has a kinetic nature that stems as much from its source material as it does from the adventures around its creation.

“I originally contacted [drummer] Dave King to record it in 2020,” Gardier explains. “Mainly, I kind of thought, ‘Oh, well, he’ll probably have a lot of availability.’ But even then, we kind of kept pushing things back. At that point, my daughter River was born. … We actually recorded it [around] March of 2021, and then I was going to release it this time last year. But I had just won the audition to join the Navy Band Commodores in D.C., and I had to go to

basic training.”

The album captures feelings frequently conjured in Anderson’s work: of being between two worlds, out of place and time as a story unfolds in a manner so stylized it feels preternatural. In “The Blue of Winter,” melancholy sax and anxious guitars rustle past each other amid the rhythm section framing the movement. The frames built from the band’s interplay on songs like “Let’s Hope It’s Got a Happy Ending” and “Electroshock Therapy” are the most Andersonian moments. They also give the best glimpse of the characters behind the music. Gardier explains that some of the pieces draw obliquely on musical ideas associated with characters in the films. She might reverse the order of the notes, change the harmony surrounding them or splice together several ideas representing different characters, and then use that as a springboard to mirror those characters’ story arcs as the piece continues.

Drummer Dave King, guitarist Charlie Ballantine and bassist Jesse Wittman interpret the

material with an audible joie de vivre, allowing Gardier’s solos and compositions to get weird when they need to without losing sight of the harmonic narrative. That clear through line is what makes Auteur listenable and accessible while checking all the boxes for deep jazz-heads. Got a friend who’s “trying to get into jazz”? Bring them to Gardier’s show, and they’ll see why this art form is really fun in the 21st century.

Her engagement with contemporary popular cinema as a source of inspiration is very much a part of the jazz tradition — I’ve got a crate of variations on the music from Black Orpheus to back me up on this — but the compositions feel new, fresh and alive. Like Anderson, Gardier creates new stories and forms by shifting nostalgic impulses out of the time and space where we expected them to lead us, and Auteur refracts jazz’s influence on the language of film and film’s reciprocal influence on jazz. Most importantly, it is a great way to kick off a year of creative listening. ▼

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STRANGERS IN FICTION The beautiful, tragic triumph of All of Us Strangers

BY JASON SHAWHAN WHEN A WRITER is blocked, it is very easy to slip into a flight of fancy, or dally in “if only” scenarios. At the outset of All of Us Strangers, Adam (Andrew Scott) is blocked — to the point that a looming blank page on his computer sends him back to his childhood home. That’s where he finds his parents, still the same age as when they died long ago, when Adam was 12. He is able to speak with them, and interact with them, despite the fact that he is now older than they are.

And that’s a very promising and fraught place to be. The questions you would ask the beloved dead. The statements you would offer to them.

The chance to fix it all.

When Adam begins to interact with his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, who are awesome), we’re in an experimental-theater phase of the experience of this film. But this is an experimental theater focused on kindness and support; this is blanket therapy taking aim at primal trauma. And because life is rarely so kind as to compartmentalize what we’re going through, there’s also the question of Harry (Paul Mescal). One of the few people living in the same sleek apartment complex as Adam, he’s got rescued-golden-retriever energy as well as an aching sense of loneliness, and he’s going to become a voice of reason, a shoulder to lean on, and a sensual amusement park ride for Adam while he’s determining who he is and where he’s going.

There’s something that feels really apt in Andrew Scott starring in this film. A profoundly gay performer who captivated the imaginations of the world as Fleabag’s “Hot Priest,” he personifies liminal space. And here, he’s the voice of an entire generation of gay men who came of age during the plague and have seen the rise of PrEP and marriage equality. So he’s seen some things. And if you didn’t see last year’s Aftersun

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(the best film of 2022), you may know Mescal only from his penchant for miniscule inseams and the social media exegeses of his bar and jogging habits. If you did see that film, you know he’s great at drawing ambient empathy from the room and incarnating a wounded sensuality that’s like 70 percent capybara and 30 percent Mark Ruffalo in In the Cut. (If you like sleazy ’staches, this is the movie for you.) And what Gen-Xer could resist a millennial who wants to learn about the Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood? (The film’s twin musical theses are the former’s “I Want a Dog” and the latter’s “The Power of Love.”)

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s 2011 film Weekend was the kind of slice-of-life, unassuming masterpiece that hangs out in the subconscious long after you see it. And it sets the template for the kind of voice he’s been for the queer community, where each scenario depends on (and

THE SHORT LIST

Our film critic weighs in on his favorite films and performances of 2023

BY JASON SHAWHAN BELOW ARE SOME of my favorites of the year. As always, ties are OK because we’re coming from a thematic space rather than a place that is rigidly hierarchical — 20 films in 10 slots. An asterisk denotes something that’s never played theatrically in Nashville.

Stay tuned for next week’s annual Jim Ridley Memorial Film Poll, which will feature our countdown of the year’s best movies, as selected by a large assortment of our critics and film-expert friends.

1. The Five Devils

There was a moment, maybe about 25 minutes before the end of this film, when I thought it was going to twist into an ending that would literally

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teaches the ideal course of action for) speaking honestly and directly, forgoing the bondage of default politeness — motivating the need to be real and conscious of one’s own needs.

This film speaks to the part of me that wants something gay beyond this life. Something eternal and cosmic and more than. Urbania did this to a certain extent back in 2000, creating not so much an elastic reality but more a porous one — where a musical set piece or fleshy interlude can unfold without breaking reality, and boring ways of living are happily pushed aside. All of Us Strangers is about a lot of things: the vast difference in life for gay men of a certain age given some major scientific and medical discoveries and breakthroughs; how even when we have the chance to clear the air with those we love, it’s never as easy or clear as we wish it would be; how regret can be like a form of telekinesis, putting one foot in front of the other and main-

unmake my existence. I’d just flicker out of reality. The fact that it didn’t but still managed to stick a landing that opens up whole other possibilities is a testament to an insane amount of imagination. Magical realism, sci-fi, horror — The Five Devils excels at all genres.

2. All of Us Strangers / Long Long Time*

I guess one of the lingering after effects of the many decades that featured gay men as sacrificial victims or The Doomed and Suffering is that there’s a reckoning as regards the power of death. Absolutes feeling not quite so absolute. A specific power in finding other paths of meaning.

You There God, It’s Me, Margaret / Barbie / Bottoms / Poor Things 3. Are

Cathartic journeys of actualization and the most profound of fun. Violent, ribald and joyful reshapings of that which is ancient and stifling. In a just world, there would be a Bella Baxter Barbie Dreamhouse.

taining the illusion of participation in the world around us.

There are lots of takes on this film by critics I respect who feel that the whole thing is an exercise wherein a blocked writer engineers a doubly elaborate scenario to work through their personal shit before getting back to “real” (read: commissioned by straight society) work. But I find this approach insulting, because the subtext of that approach is that queer issues don’t occur unless placed in the path of normies by queer creatives — like this story is a side quest for the adventurous heterosexual viewer. If this film about being able to make peace with our parents, or about reaching out to the emotionally unmoored, can’t get through to you, then maybe it’s time to talk to your primary care physician about getting some meds that can help manufacture some empathy.

This film’s ending should be a brick wall of inescapable sadness. It’s certainly having an additional discussion with gay viewers, dealing with the legacy of the past 40-plus years of history, and imparting a lesson that, just judging from the writing that’s out there by (mostly) straight writers, is going over the heads of mainstream viewers. That’s not a mark against audiences, or their comprehension. But there’s a cosmic urgency — an empathetic imperative — to All of Us Strangers, that can take the ongoing tragedy of life and make it into something expansive and triumphant. ▼

/ Occupied City* / Skinamarink / The Zone of Interest 4. Pacifiction

You couldn’t find a more varied series of approaches to the intersection of liminal spaces and historical record. Steve McQueen’s Occupied City is rooted in the concrete legacy of Amsterdam, while Kyle Edward Ball’s Skinamarink is moored in the psychological minefield of childhood terror.

And on the opposite facets of this cube of perceptive experience, Jonathan Glazer tests the far-too-relevant and shameful tendencies of humanity to adjust to any obscenity with The Zone of Interest, and Pacifiction director Albert Serra slowly, delicately grinds the viewer between a gorgeous and supple vibe and the ill intentions of systems of power (as well as vivisecting the way colonial France’s tendrils still drain from much of the world).

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Honorable mentions: Beau Is Afraid, Country Gold, The Creator, Dicks: The Musical, Down Low, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Enys Men, Jason Momoa’s scenes in Fast X, Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva, Infinity Pool, the part in John Wick: Chapter 4

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