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… A bill from District 17 Councilmember Colby Sledge is a first attempt at eliminating controversial regulation. The proposed ordi nance would amend section 17.20.040 of the Metropolitan Code of Laws, which currently requires all new developments to meet a cer tain minimum requirement of available parking.
Trying to escape Bredesen’s Titans deal, the city is subsidizing a real estate gold rush BY ELI MOTYCKA
Richel Albright, planning’s public infor mation officer, tells the Scene that feedback has affirmed planning’s designs. “Generally, people are supportive of the plan,” she says, “and what we’re seeing most mentioned in survey comments are related to transit, bike and pedestrian access, affordable housing, plan implementation and waterfront access.” The East Bank is also the city’s preferred escape route from one of its biggest finan cial liabilities — a 1996 lease with the Titans in which then-Mayor Phil Bredesen secured an NFL franchise with terms highly favor able to the team. Creative tax carve-outs and a $500 million subsidy from state lawmakers have tried to close the gap between new sta dium estimates, budgeted at $2.2 billion by Cooper in May, and the city’s share of Nis san Stadium renovation costs. A report by stadium consultancy Venue Solutions Group estimated these at $293 million in 2017. At a Metro Sports Authority meeting in May, the Titans presented the city with their own estimates: $945 million through 2026 and $1.84 billion through 2039, the life of the Ti tans’ lease. The city’s costs hinge on its con tractual obligation to provide a stadium in “first-class condition,” a standard subject to interpretation and boosted by new and reno vated NFL arenas across the country. Contrary to the current perception furthered by the team and echoed by the media that Nissan is falling apart structurally, the 2017 report indicated that the bulk (in dollars) of necessary updates would be related to technol ogy, like broadcasting infrastructure and video displays, followed by food service facilities, landscaping and interior design. Structural updates totaled $33 million through 2037.
The mayor’s office has been under increased pressure this summer to regulate Lower Broadway. …New Metro Council committee assignments dropped at the end of August and come into effect this month, reshuffling power inside the council. Vice Mayor Jim Shulman has historically favored a democratic approach to chair appointments, allowing members at least one chance at the helm of one of Metro’s 11 committees during every four-year cycle. Kevin Rhoten will chair the council’s influential Budget and Finance Committee Brett Withers, the council’s only elected chair, will continue to preside over Planning and Zoning, which will be at the cen ter of forthcoming East Bank conversations.
Right now, the 335-acre campus is an industrial expanse dotted with warehouses, parking lots, petroleum storage containers, and a functional but outmoded NFL stadium. A primary hindrance to city development planning has been the site of the former PSC Metals scrapyard, now SA Recycling, though the site itself is still owned by prescient private equity billionaire Carl Icahn, who is sometimes on speaking terms with Mayor Cooper. Though there are no commercial residences on the East Bank footprint, the area is home to some unhoused people. Dis placement across the highway preceded the recent demolition of RiverChase apartments, one of the few housing complexes near the urban core that honored Section 8 vouchers.
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The city released its extensive design plans on Aug. 22, a summary of past slide shows and planning presentations titled the “Imagine East Bank: Draft Vision Plan,” supplying media with USB storage devices preloaded with high-resolution site render ings. At a press conference later that day, Cooper and planning director Lucy Kempf addressed media, Metro councilmembers, lobbyists and the public while Tennessee Ti tans executives milled around in the shadow of Nissan Stadium. That day kicked off a three-week promotional tour of open houses and Zoom calls offered as community-en gagement events, which typically start with a presentation from planning staff (often Anna Grider, planning’s dedicated East Bank staffer) followed by audience questions. In-person events include full-color informa tional posters on easels. At First Church of the Nazarene last week, planning broke out its exceptionally adorable diorama of the city in miniature. It’s not clear how public feedback — especially residents’ refrains for guaranteed affordable housing units and a limit to tourist pandering — will affect the city’s existing vision, currently a combina tion of painstakingly thorough work from planners and input from Mayor Cooper.
Frequently referred to by the mayor and planners as a blank canvas and a once-in-ageneration opportunity, the East Bank has been designed to invite imagination. Before the next capital spending plan drops in the coming months, which will likely make some dent in the vast sum necessary to prepare the area for development, the city has encouraged residents to embrace the hypothetical — whether it’s a streamlined bike commute or what materials refer to as an “activated” Cumberland River.
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With public schools around the country regularly the sites of gun violence, Gov. Bill Lee provided a school safety update at the top of a new academic year. There is now an app, SafeTN, to report “suspicious activities” around schools, as well as beefed-up presence and training for campus cops. With the state under GOP control, gun regulations continue to slacken. In his announcement, Lee goes to great lengths to avoid connecting school safety with gun violence. … Lawsuits against Metro are piling up as operators fight the city’s at tempts to regulate and restrict the so-called transpotainment industry. Nashville Party Barge and Nashville Underground both filed recent suits, disputing the city’s new permitting process.
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very major Nashville media outlet has upped its coverage of the may or’s plans to redevelop the East Bank in the past couple of weeks as Mayor John Cooper has begun to hype Nashville’s “next great neighbor hoods.” The line used to be “next great neighborhood,” but East Bank promo tional materials newly feature four distinct zones. From north (Oracle) to south (the I-24 Silliman Evans Bridge), they are: Jefferson-Spring, Capitol Crossings, Central Waterfront and Shelby’s Bend. If any development lesson can be learned from Wedgewood-Houston or Pie Town, it’s that kitschy branding is a good way to forecast a real estate bonanza.
Cooper frequently refers to a new stadium deal as Nashville’s chance to take the “general taxpayer off the hook” for stadium liabilities, a carefully worded statement pointing toward preemp tively redirecting, rather than collecting and spending, public money. The city would borrow a billion dollars in debt secured by the East Bank’s potential to generate sales tax. Under prospective financing mecha nisms, half of all local and sales taxes col lected on the 130 acres around the stadium (and all sales taxes collected in the stadium itself) would service stadium debt in an ar rangement nearly identical to downtown Nashville’s tourist development zone set up to pay for the Music City Center. “The notion suggested in your comment that it’s essentially free to taxpayers is not really accurate,” Councilmember Bob Mendes rebuked Councilmember Brett Withers at the Aug. 18 meeting of the East Bank Stadium Committee, the new body convened by the Metro Council to review and coordinate information about a new Ti tans stadium. Committee chair Mendes (an at-large member known for his fiscal scru tiny) and Withers (an East Nashville district councilmember typically aligned with the mayor’s office) often butt heads over their willingness to kick the tires on a new sta dium. The committee expects an update from Mayor Cooper, including terms for a new Titans lease, on Sept. 14. Discussion will likely continue through November. Affordable housing, effective public transportation and a functioning school system typically dominate conversations about the city’s most pressing problems. As it campaigns to convince the public that the undeveloped East Bank deserves to be spoiled with time, money and attention, the Cooper administration has gestured that the site could also be a catalyst for solving Nashville’s other problems. Planners and the mayor’s office are reluctant to give details about how everything actually hap pens until hearing from the public. At the same time, the mayor prefers to downplay the East Bank’s connection to the Titans lease, for which the East Bank is an actual solution. Engagement events are scheduled through Sept. 21.
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Hearing aids can cost thousands of dol lars, and the cost of the device and accom panying testing is often not fully covered by state or private insurance. The high cost also takes into account services from an au diologist, who fits the aid to the ear and pro grams the device specially to fit the hearing loss the person is experiencing. Sacks cautions those using over-thecounter products, because hearing loss can also come from ear infections, wax or other issues. Audiologists like Sacks spend hours across multiple appointments counseling patients on expectations as well as how to put the hearing aids in and take them out, charge them or change the batteries, and clean them, and can adjust the devices if a patient’s hearing changes. OTC hearing aids sometimes offer online directions or use an app, which Sacks says could be a barrier for older patients, given the fact that few pa tients even take advantage of telemedicine at her office.
“It’s not a customized solution, but it’s a little mild amplifier so they can get into hearing aids and might seek help earlier instead of putting it off like most people do,” Sacks says. “That’s great, and they can start out like that — and obviously if they need to progress to [a prescription or a customized] solution, they could come in and see us.”
he recent Food and Drug Ad ministration ruling expanding access to over-the-counter hearing aids could help some Americans with mild to mod erate hearing loss. But ac cording to a local audiologist and a deaf and hard-of-hearing advocacy organization, it’s not that Clinicalsimple.audiologist Jo-Anne Sacks, a Vanderbilt alumna who has worked at Oto laryngology Associates of Tennessee since 1989, likens over-the-counter options to reading glasses.
“I guess it’s a little intimidating for a lot of people, and they just don’t feel comfortable about it,” Sacks says. “They like to come into the office and have that face-to-face help.”
Denning-Martin says she hopes this rul ing will push those companies to provide more affordable products.
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“I think when you look specifically at the hard-of-hearing community, there can be a great deal of assumption and misun derstanding,” Denning-Martin says. “And sometimes it’s very difficult for people in that mild/moderate hearing loss range to re ally have the inclusion and accessibility that they need.”
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A report issued earlier this summer by the offices of U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley cites that just five hear ing-aid manufacturers control more than 90 percent of the market, and the companies opposed the FDA ruling. The two senators passed the bipartisan Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act in 2017, which was not fully implemented until now.
The Deaf, Deaf-Blind and hard-of-hearing communities still encounter barriers every day, even 32 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That’s ac cording to Nancy Denning-Martin, executive director of Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. About 25 percent of people between ages 65 and 74 — and 50 percent of those 75 and older — have hearing loss at a disability level, Denning-Martin estimates. While those who are born with hearing loss or develop it early in life learn additional communication skills to cope, hearing loss can be especially isolating for those who are in advanced age.
“I think, generally, that it’s really exciting to see Congress and the Biden administra tion have any focus on our deaf and hardof-hearing community,” she says. “While there are pros and cons to over-the-counter here today, we hope their availability will increase access and affordability for the nearly 30 million people in the United States who could benefit.”
The FDA’s rule, issued in mid-August, es tablishes a new category of over-the-counter hearing aids so those with moderate hearing loss can purchase them directly in person or online without the need for a medical exam, a prescription or a fitting adjustment by an audiologist. The ruling aims to lower cost
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Nearly 30 million U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids, according to data from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. However, among adults 70 and older who could bene fit, fewer than 30 percent have used hearing aids. And a significantly smaller percentage of people ages 20 to 69 who could benefit from hearing aids use them — 16 percent.
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Over the past 22 years, AmericanaFest has grown into one of Middle Tennessee’s largest music events, routinely taking over a dozen or more venues, spanning nearly a week and offering performances from more than 200 artists whose musical roots range from blues to bluegrass and beyond. For some perspective, we also spoke with Raul Malo about the importance of Americana making space for Latino musicians and artists who generally don’t conform to strict genre definitions. The Mavericks, the rocking country-schooled band Malo has fronted since 1989, took home a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and are up for Duo/Group of the Year at this year’s Honors and Awards ceremony. We also check in with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom — a renowned cultural critic, author and professor who joined the Americana Music Association’s board this year — about what the genre and its trade association can do to better celebrate and cultivate the Black excellence that’s at the foundation of the music. The pandemic forced a jump to a digital conference in 2020, but AmericanaFest made a mighty return to in-person programming last year. The trend looks to continue in 2022, with dozens of noteworthy shows kicking off on Tuesday, Sept. 13. Scene music writers have once again convened on a rundown of recommended concerts, which you’ll find in our preview.
Ahead of AmericanaFest, we talk with The Mavericks’ Raul Malo, run down our favorite shows of the fest and more
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The Spanish-languagereleasedMaverickstheirfirstalbum En Español in 2020, the project felt like a long time coming. Led by Cuban American singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Malo, the delightfully unclassifiable band has Latin roots that run deep in their catalog, which also spans a heady mix of country, Tex-Mex, roots rock, blues and more. That album notched the band its first Billboard No. 1 — on the trade magazine’s Latin Pop Albums Chart — and put those roots front and center, to electric effect. The Mavericks are nominated for Duo/Group of the Year at next week’s Americana Music Honors and Awards, following a Lifetime Achievement Trailblazer Award win in 2021 that Malo says “validates all the things that [we’ve] had to go through” since forming in 1989. The Scene caught up with Malo by Zoom while he was in Denmark, on the eve of kicking off the band’s European tour.
LAST YEAR’S AMERICANAFEST WAS ESPECIALLY BIG FOR THE BAND, GIVEN YOUR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WIN. AS YOU HEAD INTO THIS FESTIVAL SEASON, WHAT HAS THAT AWARD GROWN TO MEAN TO YOU?
It’s funny, because those things are not exactly bittersweet, but there’s a little part of you that’s like, “Oh God, we’re so old,” you know? [Laughs] We’ve been doing this forever. And that is a good thing, to be able to do this for your lifetime. So it’s this weird place that I think a lot of musicians and artists live, where you don’t really want to acknowledge all that kind of stuff because it puts this thing — this hobby, this calling that you’ve dedicated your life to — in a very real timeline. It’s interesting to look at it in that regard. But undoubtedly, it means a lot to us to have won that award. … It validates all the things that you’ve had to go through: all the ups and downs, all those nights — every musician has those nights — where you’re like, “Man, I think I want to do something else,” or, “I don’t know if I can do this.” And I’m talking about early on, when you’re starting out and you have those doubts and you have those kind of thoughts. It makes you realize, “OK, I think I’ve done something right. I’ve dedicated my life to this and it’s getting acknowledged.” That’s a really nice place to be, as a musician, as an artist. It’s special.
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I DON’T THINK THERE’S A RULE LIMITING YOU TO JUST ONE! AMERICANA IS KNOWN AS A COMMUNITY FOR ARTISTS WHOSE MUSIC DOESN’T FIT NEATLY WITHIN GENRE CONFINES. AND THE MAVERICKS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN GENRE AGNOSTIC. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE PART OF THAT COMMUNITY? “Genre agnostic”? I love that. [Americana has] given us a home. I’m sure that there are some within the community that balked at us being invited, but I really do think we fit in and that our place is in the Americana world. And that’s what I’d like for Americana to be. The Mavericks are very much an American story, and not only with our Latin roots, but because it’s such a mixture of cultures and styles and genres. Admittedly, we’ve been super indulgent throughout the years, and that’s been part of the fun. I think that Americana has given us that platform where we can do whatever we want, in some ways. When The Mavericks were firmly entrenched in country music, that wasn’t always the case. It was difficult then, and that’s really no fault of country music. It was our creative restlessness and our wanting to try different things and wanting to do this kind of record and write this kind of music and do this and that. So I think it has given us that creative liberty to really pursue those endeavors, like our En Español record. We knew that wasn’t going to climb up the Americana charts, but it gave us a number one record on the Billboard Latin charts. I love that our trajectory in our career is confusing.
YOU’VE ALSO SPENT TIME PERFORMING SOLO SHOWS OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO. WHAT DO YOU GET FROM THOSE EXPERIENCES THAT’S PERHAPS DIFFERENT FROM THE BAND EXPERIENCE?
They’re a lot of fun in a different way because I get to really communicate with the audience. It’s different when you’re by yourself. I talk a lot more, share a lot more anecdotes, stories, whatever fits the bill. I normally don’t even have a set list; I just kind of wing it. And it really gives the show this “on your toes” sort of vibe, almost like sitting around in your living room with friends playing music. It’s purposeful in that regard, because I always learn something from them — either how to sing a song differently, or how a song connects to an audience if you play it differently. There’s always some little variation that you can then take and apply to a Mavericks show or to a recording session. So I use those shows as a sort of testing ground.
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“THE MAVERICKS ARE VERY MUCH AN AMERICAN STORY, AND NOT ONLY WITH OUR LATIN ROOTS, BUT BECAUSE IT’S SUCH A MIXTURE OF CULTURES AND STYLES AND GENRES. ADMITTEDLY, WE’VE BEEN SUPER INDULGENT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, AND THAT’S BEEN PART OF THE FUN. I THINK THAT AMERICANA HAS GIVEN US THAT PLATFORM WHERE WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE WANT, IN SOME WAYS.” —RAUL MALO
It’s a little bit of a bucket-list thing, but one of the things that we want to do as a band is go to Jamaica and record with some of our heroes that are still around — there’s not many left — before they go. There’s still some of the old ska guys still around: Byron Lee, The Skatalites, people like that. I just think it’d be so much fun and it’d be a beautiful project. And I know that we would have a hell of a lot of fun, just hanging out and doing nothing but smoking weed and playing guitar. I’d be happy with that. But hopefully we’ll come out with something useful, a record or songs. I love that as a band we’re fearless. We dive into whatever we need to do, and play with whoever we need to play with, and back up wherever we need to back up, and we have no problems doing any of it. It’s a loose concept as of right now, but one that’s definitely an itch that we’ve got to satisfy at some point.
Thank you for that. That is a plus, for sure, to be recognized in this lifetime. But it’s not the kind of thing that we are obsessed with or anything. I love that we got that Lifetime Achievement Award, and then it feels like, “No, we’re not slowing down any time soon.” I’m in Denmark right now, you know? We’ve got a monthlong tour of Europe, and I love that we’re back at it — now that touring is going great and people want to come out to the shows and all that again. So you don’t really have time to think about awards. You can’t step back from yourself and look back, because you’re in it. But believe me, when I step back and look back, I’m going to have fun, and I’m going to look back on it with loving eyes and loving memories. And not feel like it’s been a life wasted on music or something. But that happens to musicians, and it happens to artists. I still enjoy making music and playing music and touring and singing. So they’ll [eventually have to] give us another lifetime achievement award.
IN AN INTERVIEW EARLIER THIS YEAR, YOU EXPRESSED YOUR INTEREST IN WORKING WITH JAMAICAN ARTISTS. I’D LOVE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT WOULD BE LIKE.
I think our fans enjoy — truly, at this point — whatever it is we play. And that doesn’t mean we can do whatever we want, but our fans like the fact that we mix it up. They like the fact that they come to a show and it’s not going to be the same show they heard two months ago or a year ago. It’s a fun place to be.
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS ABOUT DIVERSITY IN AMERICANA MUSIC. HOW DO YOU SEE SPANISH-LANGUAGE AND LATIN MUSIC BEING PART OF THAT CONVERSATION IN COMING YEARS?
I’m hoping that it gets even stronger. Obviously I’m American. I grew up in Miami, but I grew up listening to American music and loving American music. So, I know there’s tons of musicians like me, who speak Spanish and were born into a Spanishlanguage home, but love American rock ’n’ roll and country music. I know that they’re there, because I see them all the time. I hear them in Texas, young Mexican kids that grew up in a Spanish home but sing country music beautifully and differently. And they incorporate their Latin backgrounds into the music and that’s exciting to me. Americana does not only mean bluegrass music or the banjo and the mandolin. We should broaden those horizons. And we’re trying. Los Lobos got their Lifetime Achievement Award [last year] as well. So that was great. I love that they got honored, as they should. They’re a great American band. And they certainly have shown their Latin credentials throughout the years. That was a beautiful nod on the part of Americana to honor them as well.
SPEAKING OF EN ESPAÑOL, IT SEEMS LIKE IT’S CONNECTED WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE IN A VERY COOL WAY. Well, I go by how the crowds react, and when we’re going to do a couple of songs from our En Español record there’s always a unanimous, beautiful round of applause. They’re hoping that we play some songs from En Español, and to me that’s the whole purpose of what we do, to make records and have them connect with people. I love the fact that a Spanish-language album has connected with a country-Americana audience.It’sfulfilling in the creative way, but also in a very — I wouldn’t say necessarily political — social way. For a minute there [the country saw] so much immigrantbashing and so much anti-immigrant rhetoric coming through the airwaves. To have The Mavericks release an all-Spanish record at the height of that — we didn’t do that on purpose, it’s funny how things work — was a nice little antidote. It proved my point that people aren’t really antiimmigrant; they’re just people. Politicians take advantage of people and their fears and drive that home for their own gains. And it’s nice to counter that with the live concert setting and have people that maybe wouldn’t listen to Cuban music or Spanish music really dig the record and go out and buy it, and take it home and listen to it. Those are little things, but you do that enough and in enough places and you never know — you might change people’s attitudes about stuff.
IT SEEMS LIKE YOU’VE REALLY DEVELOPED A SENSE OF TRUST WITH YOUR FANS. THEY KNOW YOU WELL ENOUGH THAT THEY CAN COME TO A SHOW WITH NO EXPECTATIONS OTHER THAN THAT THEY’LL HAVE A GREAT TIME. I DON’T THINK ALL ARTISTS CAN SAY THAT.
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The board is mostly there to say, “Hey, that’s cool. Is there any way we can make this cooler or doper?” That’s certainly how I feel like my role is. I think what I’ve really enjoyed is finding ways to make more com munities aware of [the festival]. So it’s about amplification. The board itself and the orga nization itself have the programming com ponent of pulling off this really complicated event down to a science, considering the scale of it and its growing popularity. Think about how small that staff is; it’s really kind of miraculous that they make it happen. What I’m really excited about is translat ing the work of the board to audiences that should be an Americana audience but just don’t know it yet. It’s been interesting and fun, with a really good group of people.
A STORY THAT’S BEEN WONDERFUL TO WATCH UNFOLD OVER THE PAST YEAR-AND-A-HALF IS THE SUCCESS OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS
I hope people will have a lively discussion about the things we don’t talk enough about, in concrete terms: culture, race, gender, class and the music that we love making and listening to. So it’s sort of a lively sur vey discussion of the work that I’ve done in thinking about country music as a culture, but also how I’ve experienced it as a fan and as a person now with a lot of friends in the industry. We’re going to try to take it from both sides. Lively, real talk. A little Southern straight shooting, which shouldn’t be too un familiar to Nashville. EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
A person who I think is well on her way to becoming a fairy godmother and making a lot of really interesting connections is the reason why I’m on the board. And that is one Miss Allison Russell. She’s just a light. She’s a light in a body. We met — I interviewed her for a piece — and we hit it off. And I think Allison hits it off with everybody. After we did that piece, she reached out to me to say, “Hey listen, I think you understand what the complicated history of Americana is, but also this moment in time and what it could be.” She’s really pushing for diversity and depth on the board, and asked me to consider doing it. Americana was this inter esting space where Black and queer people were really opening up some sounds. And then Allison would be there. So I thought, “Yeah, I’ll do that.”
Allison had been part of the push for there to be a diversity committee within the board. So I’m also on that board. Some of the existing board members said, after the festival that took place before COVID [in 2019], that some of the feedback that they got from people was, “We didn’t know we’d have such a good time at AmericanaFest. We didn’t know how dope this space could be.” They were right there at the beginning of really starting to crystallize that it could be a safeSometimesaudience.people are afraid to go into these spaces. I’m a lifelong country and roots fan, and I’ve never been to a legit country music concert until recently, be cause the spaces don’t feel like ones where I would have a good time. So some of that was just about showing that it can happen. And then COVID happened, unfortunately. We’re hoping to pick back up on that energy this year. The audience is there and is ready. We just need to show them this is a place where they can have a good time.
WITHOUT GIVING TOO MUCH AWAY, WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM THAT CONVERSATION?
BY BRITTNEY M c KENNA utting together a multi-day music festival that takes place across the city is no easy feat. As such, there are many behind-thescenes groups who work hard to make AmericanaFest the best it can be, including the Americana Music Association’s board of directors. One of the newer members of the board is Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, whose multihyphenate bona fides include teaching sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, writing the National Book Award finalist Thick: And Other Essays, covering race and culture for outlets like The New York Times and, in 2020, earning a MacArthur Fellowship (aka a “genius grant”). She is also a wellspring of knowledge on music and its intersections with race, class and gender, which she’s explored in pieces for Vanity Fair, among other outlets, and in her Substack newsletter Essaying The Scene caught up with Dr. Cottom by phone to chat about joining the board, ef forts to diversify the festival’s audience and the importance of grassroots organizations like the Black Opry.
ON SEPT. 14, YOU’LL PARTICIPATE IN A PANEL CALLED “A GENIUS SPEAKS THE TRUTH” AS PART OF THE CONFERENCE PORTION OF THE FESTIVAL.
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LIKE THE BLACK OPRY. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THESE EFFORTS, WHICH BYPASS TRADITIONAL GATEKEEP ERS AND INSTITUTIONS LIKE COUNTRY RADIO OR THE GRAND OLE OPRY, HOW DO YOU SEE THEM FITTING INTO THIS BROADER COUNTRY AND ROOTS LANDSCAPE IN THE COMING YEARS?
EARLIER THIS YEAR YOU ANNOUNCED THAT YOU JOINED THE AMERICANA MUSIC ASSOCIATION’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS. HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT, AND WHAT DREW YOU TO THE ROLE?
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I hope it becomes the default. I cannot say enough about the Black Opry. The fact that it’s been so hard to have a sustainable space for Black artists in Nashville to be together to create is, to my mind, one of the big shames of Nashville. I want everybody to give the Black Opry money. It’s as simple as that. They need the money and the re sources. They’ve got the creativity down pat. They’ve got the industry down. They know how this thing works. But what they have never had before is real resources and access.Ithink our challenge is to make sure we support it without co-opting it. I hope we look up in, like, seven years, and you can’t be considered a new country or Americana starlet or whatever unless you’ve done your chops at the Black Opry. You know — it should be one of those ways where you know a new act in Nashville has arrived, because
THERE ARE ALWAYS A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS AROUND MUSIC FESTIVALS AND THE DIVERSITY, OR LACK THEREOF, OF THEIR LINEUPS, BUT NOT AS MANY ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OF ATTENDEES. WHAT HAVE YOUR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BROADENING THE AUDIENCE LOOKED LIKE?
WHAT HAS YOUR EXPERIENCE ON THE BOARD BEEN LIKE SO FAR, PARTICULARLY REGARDING PROGRAMMING FOR THIS UPCOMING FESTIVAL?
they’ve done a set with the Black Opry. I want them to be part of the machinery of making artists for Nashville, because the influences they have are so much more diverse than what normally comes into that big Nashville system. And I just think they also make dope music.
We can’t take for granted that the audi ence knows Americana is fundamentally Black music. Black people know it, of course, and historians or your uber-fans, but I don’t think the popular audience sees it that way. So we have to say it. “This is soul music.” “This is gospel.” There is no Ameri can art form without the formerly enslaved people who brought the instruments and the sound and the vocalization … and mixed them with the sounds that were here. That is Americana.Someofthat work is ongoing, but I just think we have to continue to say it flatly. We can tiptoe around the words, I think, a bit too much, especially the closer you get to the country music industry — where, you know, we’re not supposed to even say the words “Black people.” So some of it is getting ev erybody comfortable with that, really strip ping it down and saying, “This is a place that is built on the foundation of Black music.” Because once we say that, I think we open it up to everybody in a really concrete way.
AMERICANA IS SO OFTEN PRESENTED AS A HOME FOR ARTISTS WHO DON’T FIT THE MOLD OF STARS — STRAIGHT, WHITE, TYPICALLY MALE, THOUGH INCREASINGLY, WHITE WOMEN ARE IN THE MIX TOO — THAT WE SEE IN COMMERCIAL COUNTRY MUSIC. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT THE AMERICANA GENRE DOESN’T STILL HAVE SOME WORK TO DO ITSELF. WHAT ARE SOME CHANGES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN WITHIN THE AMERICANA COMMUNITY?
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Choosing events for Thursday’s block of AmericanaFest is an unenviable task. Fortunately, that also means you can’t really go wrong. From blues to bluegrass, there’s something for everyone — but the theme seems to be celebrating the contributions and trailblazing directions of Black artists in particular.Conference registrants can attend the panel Black Opry: Path to Joy at 4 p.m. at The Westin, exploring Holly G.’s collective and traveling showcase and its impact on building community for Black country artists. If you’ve only got a standard festival pass, set your sights on the Station Inn, where The Black Opry Revue hits the stage at 9 p.m. Past shows have been formatted as a writers’ round with a rotating cast of artists; this time there will be a band directed by nonbinary artist Jessye DeSilva, who will have a solo set of their own at Saturday’s Queer Roots party at The Groove.
Meanwhile, string-band fans should settle in for the long haul at the Station Inn — Willie Watson and the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys will each play sets following McCalla and the Black Opry, at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. respectively. For other pickers and shredders, you can catch Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, who follow Palmer at The Basement East at 8 p.m. For a more mellow time, Melissa Carper will set up at 6th & Peabody at 8 p.m., slinging her wily, expertly crafted old-time songs. Also at 8 p.m., get a traditional take on country with Erin Enderlin, who’ll put a tear in your beer at 3rd and There’sLindsley.rockaplenty too, and it gets going early: Sidle up to Mule Kick and Devious LILLI LEWIS
Lori McKenna is at 3rd and Lindsley. McKenna will be followed at 11 p.m. by great country singer-songwriter Miko Marks, who’s been making a phenomenal comeback over the past year. If the more rocking end of the Americana spectrum is what excites you the most, make a beeline for Exit/In, where Adeem the Artist plays at 9 p.m., followed by Sarah Shook and the Disarmers at 10 p.m. and American Aquarium at 11 p.m. If you prefer things a little more chill and introspective, electronically enhanced duo Tall Heights plays East Nashville’s Riverside Revival at 10 p.m., teeing up ever-evolving stellar singer-songwriter Angel Olsen at 11 p.m.
Kaia Kater, Leyla McCalla and the aforementioned Jake Blount will provide a preview of their Afrofuturist world-building at their own panel, hosted by WNXP’s Jewly Hight and starting at noon at The Westin’s Vanderbilt Conference Room III. And you’ll be able to hear all three artists at their own sets later on: Blount plays at The Basement, Kater at City Winery’s Lounge space and McCalla at the Station Inn ahead of The Black Opry Revue. The only downside is that they all perform at 8 p.m. Over at The Basement East, country veteran and Color Me Country host Rissi Palmer plays at 7 p.m., while Lilli Lewis brings her operatic Americana to Analog at the Hutton Hotel at 10 p.m., and Abraham Alexander’s bluesy funk takes over Exit/In at 11 p.m.
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You could say Tuesday is “a light day” at AmericanaFest, but that’s a relative term. Once you’ve got your credentials — by the way, those will be available starting at noon at The Westin’s Gulch Conference Room III or at City Winery — you’ve got a bevy of options. Starting at 6 p.m., young Mississippi blues champion Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and ’60s-inspired U.K. rockers The Heavy Heavy play the official festival kickoff party on the rooftop at BMI’s office on Music Row. Simultaneously, Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge in Madison hosts The Old Fashioned String Band Throwdown with guests including the duo of Mike
Ishkōdé Records will feature Indigenous voices at Dee’s from 1 to 4 p.m. Led by Amanda Rheaume and Shoshona Kish, the label is putting on the first AmericanaFest showcase that puts Indigenous artists front and center. Rheaume, Aysanabee, Digging Roots and Evan Redsky will perform.
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Compton and Joe Newberry plus musicologist, banjo player and singer-songwriter Jake Blount, who is helping write back in the contributions of Black artists that have been erased from the string-band tradition. At 7 p.m., Concord Music’s Americana From All Sides takes over Germantown restaurant The Optimist, with performances from multifaceted songsmith Sierra Ferrell, superb singer-songwriter and guitarist Katie Pruitt and others. An hour later, Historic Eastland hosts Olivia Management’s showcase with performances from mellifluous duo Hush Kids, melodious rockers The Sewing Club and others; also at the same time, the Station Inn hosts fiddler Jason Carter (who you’ll know from The Travelin’ McCourys and the Del McCoury Band) and heaps of guests. Wrapping up the night is Sounds Australia’s annual showcase at The Bluebird Cafe; the lineup remains TBA, but the show starts at 9 p.m. —STEPHEN TRAGESER
Your quick-reference guide to our favorite shows of AmericanaFest 2022 BY RACHEL CHOLST, EDD HURT, CHRIS PARTON AND STEPHEN TRAGESER tarting AmericanaFestTuesday,is set to once again take over venues all across Music City. The lineup includes more than 200 performers, whose individual styles and threads of influence run the gamut from blues, folk and country to soul, rock ’n’ roll and everything in between. To help you navigate this wealth of concerts, we’ve put together a quick-reference guide with recommendations for our favorites eachYou’llday.have first shot at getting into the shows with a festival pass or a conference registration. Some shows will have a limited quantity of general-admission tickets available via venue websites or at the door, and a few events are free and open to the general public. For ticketing info, updates and the full lineup and schedule, check out americanamusic.org or the AmericanaFest app. And keep an eye on social media for info about other interesting events that aren’t officially part of the fest.
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There are some great shows happening early on Wednesday: Among others, note Kyshona, Mary Bragg and more playing Matter and Tone Tree Music’s 2 p.m. Women of Folk showcase at H.O.M.E., as well as Jrodconcerts’ AmericanaFest Fiesta with Aaron Lee Tasjan, Maggie Rose and tons more playing between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. at The Space at 100 Taylor. The main event is the keystone of the whole fest, the Americana Honors and Awards ceremony, which kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at the Ryman. There’s an official livestream watch party at City Winery, while Anthony DaCosta’s FOMO Party — featuring songsmiths like Jess Nolan and Sunny War, banjo shredder Kyle Tuttle and more — gets going at 5 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl. You’re spoiled for choice after the awards show is over, starting with rocking country champ Chuck Mead at 6th & Peabody at 9:30 p.m. Stick around at Brooklyn Bowl after the FOMO Party and you can catch rockers extraordinaire (and onetime Neil Young backing band) Lukas Nelson & POTR at 10:30 p.m. Hanging at City Winery gets you a chance to see Buffalo Nichols, a songsmith with his eye on the future of the blues, at 10 p.m. Also at 10 p.m., blues, soul and folk legend Taj Mahal plays at The Basement East, while revered songwriter
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Saturday’s lineup exemplifies the current state of Americana, which draws from old-school forms of country and rock that are the basis for music that is often bracingly modern. Americana has become an international music, but the shows on Saturday also feature performers who hail from the South — a region that has had a huge influence on the evolution of the genre. Head over to The Groove between 2 and 7 p.m. to catch Queer Roots, which kicks off with the previously mentioned Adeem the Artist. Adeem is a North Carolina native making nonbinary folk-country, as on their 2021 album Cast-Iron Pansexual
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Things kick off at 7 p.m. with Jobi Riccio, a Colorado songwriter mixing classic-country twang and touches of Rocky Mountain bluegrass using tender, almost transparent vocals. Those in the congregation may even hear a cover from her 2019 EP Strawberry Wine, on which Riccio pays tribute to the women of country she grew up emulating. After Riccio comes singer-songwriter Michaela Anne at 8 p.m. Her 2022 LP Oh to Be That Free finds the roots-pop darling (and new mom) reflecting on more innocent times.
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You can also see Austin Lucas, a well-traveled Indiana native whose music combines bluegrass, rock and folk, as well as Cindy Emch, leader of the band Secret Emchy Society. She offers up raucous progressive folk that’s usually tinged with old-time rock. 3rd and Lindsley showcases a great country singer, Peter One, starting at 6 p.m. Peter One was a huge star in his homeland of the Ivory Coast and across West Africa in the ’80s, moved to Nashville in 2013, and has continued to perform and record his gentle, folk-infused version of country. Alabama singer-songwriter Drayton Farley, who hits the stage at 7 p.m., released an excellent, melancholy single called “No Good Reason” last year. Stick around for polymathic rock and blues avatar Adia Victoria at 8 p.m. and neo-country innovator Joshua Hedley, who gets cooking at 11 p.m. From noon to 6 p.m., Musicians Corner’s September Sundown in Centennial Park features talents as diverse as former Nashvillian Josh Rouse, who’s playing the last of several appearances of the week, and soulful U.K. singer-songwriter Lady Nade. Over at Riverside Revival, you have a second chance to catch Amanda Rheaume playing her guitar-driven songs, which often address pressing social and political issues, at 7 p.m. Another politically and socially aware singer, S.G. Goodman, makes an appearance at 8 p.m. Born in West Tennessee and raised in Western Kentucky, Goodman released this year’s Teeth Marks, a testament to her skills as a progressive, innovative Southern-fried bandleader and songwriter. Kyshona, whose style folds in elements of rock, folk and protest music, hits the stage at 9 p.m., while post-outlaw country singer-songwriter Kelsey Waldon wraps it up at 10 p.m.
Eighty-two-year-old swamp-pop legend Tommy McLain just released I Ran Down Every Dream, his first new album in more than 40 years; he takes the stage at 9 p.m., while former Nashvillian singersongwriter Josh Rouse finishes the night at 10 p.m. with tunes from his COVID-born, bar-band-rollicking new album Going Places, which he recorded in Spain, where he’s lived for many years. Starting at 5 p.m., Musicians Corner’s September Sundown in Centennial Park hosts top-notch songsmiths Joe Purdy, Emily Scott Robinson, Lilli Lewis and more. Likewise, City Winery has a colorful Friday lineup, starting with Cali-folk trio Rainbow Girls at 7 p.m. The fatherson duo of Tim and Ruston Kelly follows at 8 p.m., celebrating hitmaker and “dirt emo” impresario Ruston convincing his dad to record his better-late-than-never debut Ride Through the Rain. Guatemalan transplant and musical polyglot Gaby Moreno is next at 9 p.m., with Australian country outlaw Henry Wagons starting last call at 10 p.m. Looking for something familiar? Check out Americana founding father Jim Lauderdale in the 7 p.m. slot at Exit/In, and stick around for the edgy rocking country of Jaime Wyatt at 8 p.m. That’ll still leave time to head over to The 5 Spot for Hannah Juanita, who plays at 10 p.m.; the emergent honky-tonk queen recently followed her aptly titled 2021 album Hardliner with a loping new single, “Girl, Where You From?” Margo Cilker will share her unique brand of Pacific Northwest storytelling at The Basement at 9 p.m., followed by a duo from the opposite side of the continent. Building complex soundscapes of folk and pop, Maine’s Oshima Brothers take the stage at 10 Meanwhile,p.m. 3rd and Lindsley hosts one of the most talent-stacked, triedand-true lineups of the whole fest. The overbooked night starts off with too-realfor-the-Row country star Sunny Sweeney at 7 p.m. Then at 8 p.m. comes a bluegrassinspired duo with virtuosic skill and energy to spare: Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley combine dobro mastery with a one-two punch of guitar and vocals sent from hillbilly heaven. Their most recent album World Full of Blues came out in 2019, but with a high-octane acoustic mix, their repertoire of ’grass and gas is just as timeless as it is entertaining. Hard-hitting blues queen Bette Smith is on at 9 p.m., and — if you’re still upright and your ears aren’t ringing too much — Oliver Wood’s unmistakable vocals will slither and slide into your soul at 10 p.m. Wood, frontman of roots trailblazers The Wood Brothers, mixes a bit more of a bluesy strut and a heavy splash of voodoo swagger into his solo stuff.
Venerable Nashville rock venue Exit/In, meanwhile, hosts veteran Music City rocker Will Hoge, who plays at 8 p.m. His music has always had a Springsteen-meets-Elvis Costello edge, but it’s filtered through a very Southern sensibility. He’s just released a new album, Wings on My Shoes. Make sure to stick around to see the Canadian-born, New Zealand-raised singer Tami Neilson, who appears at 11 p.m. She’s unclassifiable — her music contains elements of show tunes, soul and rock ’n’ roll. Her new album Kingmaker scrambles genres in spectacular fashion, as you’ll hear on the superb “Baby, You’re a Gun,” which is gothic country with Morricone touches.
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The festival hits its stride Friday night, and this year’s penultimate round of shows look poised to be some of the most engaging. For a spiritual communion with the tunes, head on over to Riverside Revival in East Nashville, a converted church on Riverside Drive with plans to preach the gospel of grit.
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Stellar bluegrass quintet Sister Sadie plays the Station Inn at 9 p.m., followed at 10 p.m. by renowned vocal group The McCrary Sisters, who recently suffered the loss of longtime member Deborah McCrary. Up next, you’ve got your last opportunity of the fest to see neo-country singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Melissa Carper, whose 2021 album Daddy’s Country Gold established her as a rising star. At 11 p.m., she’ll join in a trio with mandolinist and singer Brennen Leigh, whose recent offering Obsessed With the West is a Western-swing-themed delight, and singer’s singer Kelly Willis For a taste of the Americana avant-garde, hit The 5 Spot, where singer and songwriter Early James — an exponent of dark narratives that draw from influences as diverse as Billie Holiday and Tom Waits — goes on at 10. Topping off the bill at 11 p.m. is Luke Schneider and Friends, who’ll explore new avenues of sound for the pedal steel, following in the wake of Chrome Universal, a comp of contemporary steel recordings Schneider recently curated. Schneider & Co. are busy expanding the vocabulary of modern American music, and that’s what Americana, at its best, is all about.
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Planet’s Rock ’n’ Roll Brunch at The Groove, featuring Michelle Malone, Andrew Leahey, The 40 Acre Mule and more from noon to 6 p.m. Nicki Bluhm will time-travel back to the ’70s at 8 p.m. at Exit/In. Nashville expat Cory Branan, whose charisma and guitar virtuosity always make for a great party, will be joined by Memphis troubadours Alexis Jade, Rodd Bland and others at InDo Nashville for the The Pure Memphis Happy Hour from 4 to 7 p.m. —RACHEL CHOLST
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK It’s been more than 77 years since Anne Frank perished in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. But as Nashville Children’s Theatre opens its season with a powerful new adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, we are reminded that her story is as relevant as ever. This world premiere by Wendy Kesselman offers a fresh take on her original 1997 adaptation — which, in turn, was based on the 1955 play by Fran ces Goodrich and Albert Hackett. NCT’s executive artistic director Ernie Nolan has assembled an exceptional cast, including Shelby Talbert, Matthew Carlton, Megan Murphy Chambers, Charlotte Myhre Shealy, Tamiko Robinson Steele, Kenny Dozier, Gerold Oliver, Garris Wimmer, Sejal Mehta, James Rudolph II, Alaina Bozarth and Dylan Pearson. And following each public perfor mance, audience members can also check out Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank — a remarkable guided exhibit from the Anne Frank Center that helps visitors connect what happened during the Holo caust to more contemporary examples of discrimination and exclusion. Sept. 8-Oct. 2 at Nashville Children’s Theatre, 25 Middle ton St.
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CRISTINA VANE Much like her previous album, 2021’s Nowhere Sounds Lovely, Cristina Vane’s new Make Myself Me Again is a Nashvillestyle singer-songwriter record. If Los Angeles was the world capital of the singersongwriter movement in the 1970s and ’80s, Nashville — a town where any number of roots musics provide convenient fallback positions for songwriting singers — is the current locus of the style. Vane is a very skillful instrumentalist who plays in vari ous blues-adjacent idioms, and the point of Make Myself Me Again is the contrast between the sentiments of her songs and the toughness of the licks she employs with such facility. In “Small Town Nashville Blues,” Vane complains about an industry town where people don’t always keep their promises. She also alludes to a tune writ ten by Tennessee native Carl Perkins by mentioning how wearing blue suede shoes helped Elvis Presley rock out. Make Myself Me Again is a singer-songwriter album about relationships and self-identity, but maybe Vane could have been more specific about her struggles by bringing in more concrete details about just what it means to be an ambitious, blues-savvy singer in Nash ville. Still, her songs work, and the licks are pretty satisfying. 9 p.m. at the Station Inn, 402 12th Ave. S. EDD HURT
MUSIC [MATERIAL GAINS] THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys’ Never Slow Down stands out from the run of blue grass albums by virtue of the group’s ability to pick interesting material. The East Ten nessee band does well by Earl Montgom ery’s “Where Grass Won’t Grow,” a great song perhaps best known via George Jones’ 1969 rendition. Their version is notable for its restraint, but the grim beauty of Mont gomery’s tune comes through. The addition of fiddle player and singer Laura Orshaw, who had been performing with the band for several years, makes a small but significant difference in their sound — Orshaw is a superb singer whose harmony and lead vo cals are models of decorum. Meanwhile, the band also sounds great covering Jim Lau derdale’s “Old Time Angels,” which might be the album’s peak moment. The band hints at newgrass throughout Never Slow Down, but they never get too arty or sound selfconsciously modern. The ensemble playing is fleet and subtle, and the album fuses ma terial and playing style in an unpretentious — and very accomplished — manner. 9 p.m. at the Station Inn, 402 12th Ave. S. EDD HURT
WAND Los Angeles sonic travelers Wand blasted out of the gate a decade ago with a rapid-fire trifecta of cerebral, cacopho nous LPs highlighted by 2015’s Golem. The group took a hard left with 2017’s Plum — a surprisingly straightforward, optimistic, guitar-driven collection evoking Radio head’s The Bends and Stone Temple Pilots’ Purple — only to reverse course again, going further out with 2019’s krautrockand-post-rock-inspired Laughing Matter Aside from frontman Cory Hanson’s moody, spacious 2021 solo debut Pale Horse Rider, Wand has laid low since bringing its slip pery sound to Drkmttr an eternity-feeling three summers ago. To tide fans over while Laughing Matter’s follow-up comes together, an ear-bleeding 20-minute live rendition of Plum’s “White Cat” teases Spiders in the Rain, a double live album slated for late-fall release. Liquid-light artist Mad Alchemy will provide some psychedelic visuals for the show. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S.
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MUSIC [FROM THE TOP OF THE OCEAN] MODEST MOUSE When indie-rock wild card Isaac Brock and his longtime outfit Modest Mouse co-headlined Nashville’s Ascend Amphi theater with Future Islands last year, they brought out all the good stuff. The idiosyn cratic Pacific Northwesterners’ 15-song set included selections from beloved early-days LPs This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About, The Lonesome Crowded West and The Moon & Antarctica, not to mention 2004’s Grammy-nominated Good News for People Who Love Bad News — including the crossover hit “Float On” as set-closer. Brock’s band has seen myriad lineup changes over the past three decades, but they’ve hit their stride in recent years, with tight live performances and strong new material to work with. Last year’s The Golden Casket is as weird and jagged and riffy as ever, full of Brockisms like, “You should never fuck a spider on the fly / If you do you’re gonna find out soon.” Expect a lon ger set list for this Mouse go-’round, plus — as ever — some wacky between-song banter from the man himself. British rock ’n’ roll ers The Cribs will open. 7:45 p.m. at Brook lyn Bowl, 925 Third Ave. N. D. PATRICK RODGERS
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The tale is classic: A cunning siren lures a man into her orbit. Because of his pure and giving heart, he does not know to stop his ears with wax or tie himself to the mast of a ship. Once ensnared, he is destined for a great, perilous fall. Tommy Wiseau — a man of questionable origin and mysteriously deep pockets — wrote, produced, directed and starred in 2003’s The Room. And by the account of his best friend, co-star and Hol lywood hopeful Greg Sestaro — as laid out in his memoir The Disaster Artist and the 2017 film of the same name starring James Franco as Wiseau — the set was a shitshow both when cameras were rolling and when they weren’t. Everyone agrees that it is a terrible film — perhaps the worst in the history of cinema. Yet it has garnered cultlike status for those who find comfort in the chaos. Like screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the audience participates in some rituals — throwing plastic spoons at the screen (bring your own!), walking out during a particularly awkward sex scene — so join the fun and celebrate the worst act ing, script, direction, set design, costuming and, well, everything, Hollywood has ever seen. Friday and Saturday at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. ERICA CICCARONE
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One of the most regarded and beloved bands in norteño music comes back to Nashville with a show at Bridgestone Arena. For 50 years, Los Tigres del Norte have en joyed a reputation as a voice for the people, bringing to life stories about working-class and immigrant struggles, as well as cor ridos about drug dealers and cartel bosses — they even got fined in 2017 for playing one such song in Chihuahua. Ahead of the show, be sure to check out the documentary released this summer, Los Tigres del Norte: Stories to Tell, which goes in depth on the Mexican band’s rise to international fame. 8 p.m. at Bridgestone Arena, 501 Broadway ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ
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MUSIC [ARE YOU ECKXPERIENCED?] HALEY HEYNDERICKX Hearing Haley Heynderickx for the first time is chilling, like the rainy winters in Oregon where she lives and records. The second and third times, her wavering vocals and stripped-down accompaniment settle in. Soon they’re hard to shake. A self-described loner, Heynderickx became essential listen ing with 2018’s I Need to Start a Garden, an
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Theoretically, shoegaze is a sonically limited realm of music, but it’s all about variations on a theme. Case in point: What Happens After, the 2020 full-length debut from upstate New York combo Laveda. A thick canopy of fuzz hangs over the 10-song set, but co-founders Ali Genevich and Jake Brooks, who both sing, prove equally ca pable at cranking up the intensity, building luminous, dreamy soundscapes while flex ing pop muscle. The scrappy group — a duo on record, but a four-piece live — headlines a three-band bill rounded out by local song smith Abby Johnson, who I last saw perform a lovely opening set for Styrofoam Winos last spring, and Sewing Club, a four-piece currently working on an LP with *repeat repeat’s Jared Corder at the controls. The gig is at a private residence; ask a punk for the address. 7 p.m. at East Valley Mansion
The Tennessee State Museum’s TN Writ ers | Stories series kicked off earlier this year, hosting events with local authors whose books explore our state’s culture and history. Jeff Zentner’s four YA novels are all set in Tennessee. His latest, In the Wild Light, earned high praise from poet and author Ocean Vuong, who said it “vitally redefines friendship as something that must be protected, sacrificed for, and tended to with wisdom, patience, and love — and, to our luck, rendered in Zentner’s gem-like sentences.” The characters in In the Wild Light, who both have mothers struggling with opioid addiction, find a safe haven in one another. Their lives change when they discover a powerful strain of mold with antibiotic properties, earning them tickets to a very different future than they planned.
CHARLIE ZAILLIAN MUSIC [PERFECT POISE] SARAH JAROSZ
[CALL OF THE WILD] JEFF ZENTNER
Cut in 2018 and released in 2021, Sarah Jarosz’s Blue Heron Suite is super-folk that’s complex, reflective and pleasingly kinetic. Being a rock ’n’ roll fan who can be a little skeptical about the ultimate worth of fancy folk-influenced acoustic music, I re gard Jarosz as a true artist and Blue Heron Suite as the kind of thing Joni Mitchell or David Crosby — or for that matter, Nick Drake — might be doing now. Blue Heron Suite really does work as a whole, with a series of beautiful instrumentals helping set the tone of a remarkably emotional al bum that maintains its poise throughout. A Texas native who lived in New York before moving to Nashville in 2020, Jarosz makes music that’s complicated but not mannered. Blue Heron’s “Across the Canyon” evokes, say, The Byrds or Mitchell, which means Jarosz’s conception is thoroughly modern and partakes of what you might call the avant-garde. Her singing is tougher and even more nuanced than you might notice on first listen, and it’s also intensely pleasur able. Blue Heron Suite communicates the joys and unease of childhood — and adult hood — with the savvy of a master musician. New Orleans-based songwriter Ric Robert son opens. 8 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St. EDD HURT
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The State Museum has paired the event with Painting the Smokies: Art, Community, and the Making of a National Park, which shows the complicated history at the foundation of the park in Appalachia, and how people who lived and worked in the mountains were forced to uproot their families and find homes elsewhere. It’s an interesting pairing, and the perfect opportunity to check out the exhibition. Zentner will be joined by bookindustry veteran Stephanie Koehler for a conversation after the reading. 10:30 a.m. at the Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L. Parks Blvd ERICA CICCARONE
nashvillescene.com | SEPTEMBER 8 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 | NASHVILLE SCENE 23 Live at the Schermerhorn GO NOW! THE MUSIC OF THE MOODY BLUES Oct. 7 INGHOSTBUSTERSCONCERT Oct. 14 to 16 VANESSA WILLIAMS Oct. 20 to 22 SINATRA AND BEYOND WITH TONY DESARE Nov. 10 to 12 HOLST’S THE PLANETS Sept. 29 to Oct. 2 LEDISI SINGS NINA Nov. 6 RONNIE MILSAP Nov. 8 DAVIDCELEBRATINGBOWIE: Live In Concert Featuring Todd Rundgren, Adrian Belew, Angelo Moore Nov. 7* *Presented without the Nashville Symphony. coming soon WITH SUPPORT FROM Mahler’s RESURRECTION SYMPHONY NASHVILLE SYMPHONY & CHORUS Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor | Tucker Biddlecombe, chorus director Sept. 10 TRAILBLAZING WOMEN WITH THE NASHVILLE SYMPHONY Featuring World Premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Florence Price Joan Tower Julia Wolfe Sept. 15 to 17 BONEY JAMES Presented without the Nashville Symphony.Sept. 18 100+ Concerts On Sale Now BUY TICKETS : NashvilleSymphony.org/Tickets615.687.6400Giancarlo Guerrero, music director SEASONOPENER
MUSIC [AN EVENING OF CONTEMPORARY SITAR MUSIC] SPIRITUALIZED W/NIKKI LANE
MUSIC [DAMN THE BAND] GWAR W/LIGHT THE TORCH, NEKROGOBLIKON & CROBOT
JULIA JACKLIN W/KARA JACKSON
The second annual Blended Festival is your one-stop shop for music, wine and food. What else do you need, really? Hosted by My Wine Society, a social app for wine lovers, the two-day event will have multiple stages, a wine tent, a culinary stage, a VIP village, a wellness lounge and ample op portunities to take all the selfies your heart desires. The Chainsmokers are headlining, with a lineup also featuring Lil Jon, Loud Luxury, Sickick, Fetty Wap, Breland and Blake Horstmann, as well as local acts The Wldlfe, Mokita, Honey Country, Dee Jay Sil ver and Daisha McBride. The culinary stage will have chef demonstrations, and with tons of food vendors on site, you can bet you won’t go hungry. You can also beat the heat in the wellness lounge if your brain becomes a little … well, too blended. Sept. 10-11 at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, 600 James Robertson Parkway TOBY LOWENFELS
Back in July, The Wild Hearts Tour stopped at the Ryman — a triple bill featuring Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen and Julien Baker, three singer-songwriters whose music is a fine example of how art can help us process what the hell is going on inside us. Australian songsmith Julia Jacklin, whose first two records introduced her knack for exploring social situations and tracing the impacts they have on everyone involved, would’ve made a fine addition to the lineup. She continues her work on her third LP Pre Pleasure, recorded in Canada with members of shape-shifting rock band The Weather Station. The album opens with “Lydia Wears a Cross,” in which Jacklin reckons subtly and gracefully with the practice of religion without faith; out of context, that’s something that you might conceivably expect to feel hollow. However, as Jacklin sings while fat piano chords shift gently around the slow pulse of a drum machine, she found comfort in the rituals as a child: “The line up, the quiet / The bleeding heart divided / Forgive me, forgive me, forgive me / Go on now, you try it.” Looking back, what does this all mean in the weird and unsettled times we’re living through? Jacklin doesn’t have all the answers, but asking the questions is important. Her tour brings her back to Nashville on Monday,
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My first encounter with GWAR was the band’s appearance in 1995’s Empire Records, wherein my man Marc (Ethan Embry) gets pulled into a TV screen and murdered by the band. (It was said dur ing a BuzzFeed reunion of the cast that the scene was not originally in the script. It was filmed at Embry’s request during a live GWAR show near where they were film ing in North Carolina.) GWAR’s live shows, which are full of fake blood, monsters and perversion, are as insane and theatrical as the premise of the band: They’re the aliens who mated with apes to create the human race, but were then frozen as a way to pro tect mankind. Then, as these things go, they were found by an unscrupulous handler who turned them toward metal music and bad behavior. GWAR is touring on the heels of the documentary This Is GWAR!, which gets deep into the lore and is a great initiation to the madness. Metalcore band Light the Torch, melodic metal band Nekrogoblikon and hard rock band Crobot are slated to open. 7 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl, 925 Third Ave. N. AMANDA HAGGARD MONDAY / 9.12
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The Nashville Symphony opens its 2022-23 classical concert season in grand fashion this weekend, with none other than Gustav Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2 in C minor. Perhaps best known as the Austrian composer’s “Resurrection” Symphony, this sweeping 90-minute work features huge, dramatic contrasts and a rather awe-inspir ing narrative about the beauty and wonder of the afterlife. Music director Giancarlo Guerrero leads the full orchestra, and au diences can also look forward to hearing the Nashville Symphony Chorus (led by its director Tucker Biddlecombe), along with a pair of incredible guest soloists — Grammywinning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor and Swedish soprano Malin Christensson. With more than 220 performers taking to the stage, the evening will culminate in a “transcendent finale that shakes the rafters and soars to the heavens above.” 8 p.m. at the Schermerhorn, 1 Symphony Place AMY STUMPFL
MUSIC [A HEAVENLY SEASON-OPENER] MAHLER’S SYMPHONY‘RESURRECTION’
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album that makes you wish it were raining. The title, which becomes a chant in “Oom Sha La La,” is a sort of rallying cry for the pent-up ache that defines Heynderickx, 29, and her audience of fellow 20-somethings who want a soundtrack for their searches for meaning in the everyday. Superior lyricism, unpredictable song structure and simple musicality make Heynderickx one of today’s truly creative artists. If “Bug Col lector” doesn’t haunt you already, listen up. LéPonds will open. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S.
On Spiritualized frontman Jason “Space man” Pierce’s newest work, Everything Was Beautiful, he continues his nearly 30-year psychedelic quest to explore the sounds of Phil Spector, gospel music and The Stooges even more deeply. J. Spaceman will be taking his enormous sound hundreds of feet below the surface of the planet, as Spiritualized plays the dimly lit catacombs of Pelham, Tenn. In what promises to be an unforgettable experience, he will bring along Nashville country songstress and vintage clothing connoisseur Nikki Lane as opener. 4 p.m. at The Caverns, 555 Charlie Roberts Road, Pelham, Tenn. P.J. KINZER
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and appropriately, she’ll be joined by singer, songwriter and former U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Kara Jackson. 8 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St.
STEPHEN TRAGESER [ELECTRIC FUNERAL] WINDHAND W/DONNIE DOOLITTLE Richmond, Va.’s Windhand has never phoned it in when it comes to making heavy riffs. The band’s full spectrum of sound takes cues from doom masters like Electric Wizard and fellow Virginians Pen tagram, but also fills in the sound with hints from prog rock and Nirvana’s Bleach. While the band has been relentlessly touring for most of the past 15 years, pandemic times have made Windhand shows scarce for the first time. Hopefully this run will get them back into full-time van mode again. The band will be on the road with North Carolina songsmith Donnie Doolittle, who brings to mind everything from dark outlaw country to Nick Cave with his bleakly crafted tunes. 7 p.m. at Drkmttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike [IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS]
“From the moment it opened, in the summer of 1992, Lucy’s Record Shop was destined to close.” That’s how our late, Scene editor Jim Ridley described the record store/all-ages venue that shut down in January 1998. For a brief time, the Church Street spot not only welcomed outrageous, way-on-the-fringe artists and bands from Nashville and beyond — it was also a safe space for the young outcasts/ hellraisers/weirdos who didn’t have a hang out to call their own. In 1996, somewhere in the middle of all this, Vanderbilt student Stacy Goldate got a camcorder and made a 45-minute documentary about the shop and its followers that’s just as grungy and DIY as everything that came outta there. With a 30th-anniversary tribute concert happen ing at Drkmttr on Sept. 18th, the Belcourt is presenting a special Music City Mondays installment of Goldate’s digitally restored, rough-and-rowdy time capsule. If you can’t attend the screening, Goldate has also made it available to rent or buy online, with pro ceeds going to Oasis Center and Nashville Launch Pad. 8 p.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Bel court Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY
GINGER ROOT W/KING PARI Cameron Lew, who performs and re cords as Ginger Root, accurately de scribes his music as “aggressive elevator soul.” Let’s say an officemate is jamming out to Ginger Root’s 2021 EP City Slicker a couple of cubes away. You could be forgiven if the sound — effervescent, funky and lush, with the fidelity carefully managed to put you at a slight remove, like it’s a recording of someone playing a record — fools you into thinking that it’s a playlist of TV com mercials from the early 1980s. But take a closer listen to the lyrics, and you’ll find Lew wrestling insightfully with the existen tial crises that pretty much everyone faces in their 20s and 30s, from romantic relation ships to making peace with no longer being a youngster. Opening the show is King Pari,
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MUSIC CITY MONDAYS: LUCY BARKS!
GINGER ROOT GUTELDAVIDPHOTO: Nashville’s ONLY vinyl record store with full bar and 24 seasonal craft beers on tap. 8 DJ CD Baby 9 Charles Stepney Listening Party 10 DJ Coley 11 LIVE: Joshua Black Wilkins and Mikaela Finne 12-17 Nightly AmericanafestUnofficialShowcases Check our social media for more info vinyltapnashville.com 9/8 9/9 9/10 9/11 9/14 5pm Writers @ the Water Open Mic 3pm Springwater Sit In Jam 5:30pm Double Trouble Blues Band 9pm Vericose, Open, Sydewynder, Cassette Stress & Tijuana Bible 9pm Tory Silver, Anne Malin & Coral Moons 9pm Closed / Private Event 9pm First Jason, Summon the Moon, & Sons of Our Father 9pm Frank Ortegel & 2 Left Boots, Marcus Brown & the Sound, + Friend or Foe
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a duo of Lew’s fellow Angelenos who make funky, falsetto-kissed electronic pop that’s not time-stamped but shows a keen awareness of its roots. 8 p.m. at Eastside Bowl, 1508 Gallatin Pike S., Madison STEPHEN TRAGESER
ZETA Zeta formed in 2003 on the coastal outskirts of beautiful, troubled Ca racas, Venezuela, and spent its first de cade honing a signature sound that toes the line between post-hardcore order and progressive-rock chaos. But when the band took its act to the States in the early 2010s, worsening circumstances at home turned that engagement into an infini-tour. The breakneck road-dog pace the quartet has maintained ever since mirrors that of Israeli garagerock duo Monotonix in the late Aughts, or West African shredder Mdou Moctar more recently. Today, Zeta’s members are split between Charlotte, N.C., and Miami — its latest LP Todo Bailarlo adds Afro-Caribbean flair to its already fiery prog-punk sound — but remain most at home on the road. “I’ve never seen a band more passion ate [than Zeta] about doing music,” Eugene, Ore., musician and friend of the band T.J. Martin-Lokey tells the Scene. “The records are great, but the live show is magical.” Pittsburgh’s angular Edhochuli and SoCal punks Moxie Beat support. 8 p.m. at Drkm ttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
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If you’re someone who reads those lists about the most anticipated books of fall, then you may already be familiar with the name Jonathan Escoffery. Escoffery’s debut story collection, If I Survive You, hit book store shelves on Sept. 6, and a lot of people, myself included, can’t wait to read it. The linked stories in If I Survive You unravel what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capital ism and whiteness. Escoffery is the recipi ent of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction. And on Wednesday, you can catch Escoffery online for two different Nashville events: The Porch is excited to of fer a masterclass with Escoffery called The Anatomy of Story. In this class, participants will use prompts to create story-worthy characters and explore how elements such as repetition, reversals and recognition determine the contours of the worlds we create. This event is $68 for Porch mem bers and $75 for nonmembers. Register at porchtn.org. If a free author event is more in line with your budget, don’t miss Escoff ery’s virtual event with Parnassus Books. You can watch live on either the Parnassus Facebook page or YouTube channel. 11 a.m. via at The Porch; 6 p.m. via Parnassus Books
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The Salty Cubana’s Martinez estimates that individually wrapping empanadas adds three to four hours of work to her day, in part because she needs to let them cool before packaging — if she didn’t, they would get steamed inside the package and become more like a dumpling. Other vendors note that the expense of individual packaging cuts into slim profit margins and also is in conflict with the city’s stated zero-waste goals. “People like to bring their own bags and don’t want everything in an individual clamshell when they come to a farmers mar ket,” explains Rebecah Boynton, who has managed several markets, including East Nashville and Richland Park. These mar kets, which in Tennessee were considered essential businesses during the pandemic, contribute substantially to the economy.
“A market is no different from a food festival,” Brock says. “I’ve done a million of them over the past 15 years.”
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The Richland Park Farmers’ Market alone grossed more than $2.3 million in 2021. But Boynton says sales are down about 24 per cent this year since the health department enforcement limited options for available ready-to-eat foods.
Changes in what foods can be cooked at home and sold commercially, through the Tennessee Food Freedom Act passed in July 2022, granted more opportunity, but also ad ditionalProlificconfusion.Nashville chef Sean Brock, whose Joyland restaurant had a tent at the East Nashville market, considered buying a $1,500 handwashing station so he could con tinue to serve market customers. Brock de rives joy from cooking and interacting with customers in a market environment and fre quently shops there with his family. Because he is a successful celebrity chef who owns multiple restaurants, he could make the investment. But before he wrote the check, he learned that the sink still might not put his market tent into compliance, and instead he’d need a food truck. That’s a bigger in vestment he ultimately decided not to make.
Ana Aguilar, a former server at Husk, started Tantisimo during the pandemic. She describes it as a “Spanglish shop” that sells both savory and sweet dishes. After she received a warning about not being in com pliance with health codes, Aguilar thought she could adjust to meet the regulations. She considered purchasing a mobile sink or a food truck, but those options were prohibi tively expensive — plus, she says, it was un clear to her whether the portable sink alone would be sufficient.
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“This is make-or-break for tiny busi nesses that sprouted up in the pandemic,” Brock says. “A lot of those people who were seeing success at farmers markets quit their [other] jobs and then had the rug pulled out from under them.”
no one — not chefs, farmers market managers, customers or inspectors — wants customers to contract foodborne illness. But many vendors say the rules don’t take actual food safety into consider ation, and the inconsistencies in the state laws defy logic.
Dane Carder has experienced similar confusion. Sampling is an essential part of selling his family recipe Jim’s Spaghetti Sauce. A minimum of 75 percent of people who taste it, he says, buy it. Other vendors report similar numbers, particularly those who are using traditional recipes and are serving foods that are unfamiliar to many potential customers. Carder cooks his sauce in the Citizen Incubator Kitchens in East Nashville. At one market, an inspector told him he could not sample at all. Another told him he could, as long as he had a copy of his commissary kitchen paperwork with him at theObviously,market.
ment of these regulations is a challenge. Many of the businesses that are suffering happen to be owned by women and people of Incolor.response, many businesses have piv oted. Kisser, the Japanese-food fan favorite, is in the process of opening a brick-andmortar restaurant in East Nashville. When they were told they couldn’t grill precooked food at the markets, they shifted to prepack aged rice balls. Co-owner Leina Horii says the new rice-ball recipe has worked out, as the new methods are resulting in a dish that stays fresh longer and have helped replace the 30 to 40 percent of income that was be ing generated at the grill. “We have been very lucky,” says Horii. “But it seems slightly arbitrary, because the inspectors — who are very nice — are citing us for things that the others did not get cited for. And it is traumatic to see your vendor friends breaking down in tears when they are told they have to shut down.”
Laura Wilson, owner of the Citizen Incu bator Kitchens that many market vendors use, says one of her missions is to share the policies and procedures of the health and ag departments with members. “Helping our members prepare whole some and unadulterated food for the Nashville marketplace is one of our high est priorities, and we have great relation are cracking down on farmers market vendors for sampling and food prep. A coalition of chefs and farmers hopes to change state laws.
City inspectors at the markets have been focusing on food preparation as defined by state code, which prohibits sampling and onsite food prep without a food truck or mobile pushcart. In practice, that means a farmer cannot slice a watermelon and let folks taste it to decide whether they want to buy. And any preprepared food — whether baked at home or in a commercial kitchen — needs to be prepackaged. Instead of using a portable bakery case to display bagels, then using a pair of tongs to put the number of bagels a customer requests in a bag, such goods must be individually prewrapped. Vendors tell the Scene they understand that health inspec tors are required to follow state code and don’t feel that they are being specifically targeted. But, they say, the recent enforce
30 NASHVILLE SCENE | SEPTEMBER 8 – SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 | nashvillescene.com R ita Martinez was surprised. Her pandemicpivot business, The Salty Cubana, had taken off. After selling croquetas, breads and other Cuban bites at pop-ups and farmers markets, she was asked to make fried-to-order empanadas at a seven-hour event for the Nashville Predators early in 2022. Martinez precooked the meat-filled pastries (with Porter Road beef stuffed in vegan dough) in a permitted commercial commissary kitchen. Transporting the pre cooked, frozen empanadas allowed her to fry on site as needed, making them crunchy on the outside, gooey on the inside. And if she didn’t sell out, the still-frozen empana das would hold until another day. She felt the system allowed her to reduce food waste while ensuring proper food temperatures and food safety measures. But Martinez learned that the same pro cesses she had used for the Preds event didn’t meet health code requirements at weekly farmers markets. That’s because Tennessee’s health code does not define them in the same category — one is consid ered a one-time, short-term event (less than two weeks) while the other is ongoing and therefore “consecutive.” The Salty Cubana was one of a number of small businesses whose owners were surprised that they were not in compliance with state health codes when serving ready-to-eat food at farmersVendorsmarkets.andmarket managers at neigh borhood farmers markets (including East Nashville, Richland Park, Wedgewood Houston, Donelson and Amqui Station in Madison) report they’ve had more interac tion with Metro Public Health Department inspectors in 2022 than they have in previ ous years. Inspectors have issued verbal and written warnings, letting vendors know they must get in compliance or risk being shut down until they do so. Hugh Atkins, bureau director for envi ronmental health at the Metro Nashville Public Health Department, explains that the department does not issue citations — i.e., there are no fines associated with warnings. Instead, the department aims to work with chefs in advance, reviewing plans for serv ing food and helping them develop an ap proach for adjusting after a violation.
Other vendors left the markets entirely.
No representatives from the city or the state health departments cited increased in cidents of foodborne illnesses in 2022. Atkins says regulations are based on mitigating risk. While slicing a watermelon is less of a health risk than cutting raw chicken, there still needs to be equipment for sanitizing the knife and serving dishes and for handwashing — and those tools may not be available in a farmer’s pop-up tent without a sink. The difference between special events and farmers markets, he says — in addition to the state definitions — is that special events have a health inspector on site at the beginning of each event. “We can’t have staff at each farmers market every week,” he says. Atkins knows the reg ulations are confusing, as some food regula tions are overseen by the state Department of Agriculture (i.e., growing that water melon) and others by the health department (i.e., slicing and serving the same melon).
“It is very confusing,” Aguilar says. “I am already paying huge amounts to a com missary kitchen. I am not cooking raw foods at the markets. I am wearing gloves, and I have worked in a million restaurants with out gloves. It does not make a whole lot of sense. There should be a simple solve.” Until July, markets accounted for nearly 100 percent of Tantisimo’s revenue. Because she can do special events without the hur dles of the farmers markets, she’s focusing on those and pop-ups at venues with their own sanitation equipment.
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ships with the departments of health and agriculture that allow us to share informa tion,” Wilson says. “I believe it is possible to both satisfy the real concerns of the health department for food safety and to allow some of the same on-site food preparation that is allowed for festivals and special events.” A coalition of farmers, market manag ers, chefs, commissary kitchen operators and others are looking at how to make that happen. The group, called the Tennessee Food and Farming Alliance, wants Ten nessee health codes to better reflect food safety norms for farmers markets in a way that mitigates risks and allows small busi nesses to thrive. A vendor survey produced a picture of concerns and hopes around markets — although some vendors declined to complete the survey because they were concerned about repercussions for their businesses. The organization has launched a website, social media accounts and a state wide petition members hope the public will sign on Whileto.some markets are year-round, the bulk of sales for many are in warm-weather months. The idea is to use the slower season to work with legislators, regulators and oth ers to figure out options for safe, healthy and thriving markets. That may include some kind of health code variance or memo randum of understanding until state law can beSomechanged.vendors are finding inspiration from ways other states permit ready-to-eat foods in markets. Possible changes could in clude reclassifying what a farmers market is, creating a system where a market could purchase equipment that could be shared by multiple vendors, or using a tiered system, so that regulations are tied to levels of risk (different requirements for precooked food versus grilling a raw burger, for instance).
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ext to Hunters Station in East Nashville is Snooze A.M. Eatery, a breakfast and brunch spot that offers healthy ingredients in a contemporary spin on the traditional American diner. The Denver-based chain has a few dozen lo cations across the Southeast and the West, and its extensive menu boasts a “Plant Power” section offering unique creations for veg etarians and vegans. Vegetarian brunch dishes include the Bountiful Buddha Bowl and Sweet Potato Veggie Mash-Up, both of which can easily be made vegan. One of the already-vegan dishes at Snooze is the Goldilocks Porridge, a mixture of steel-cut oats, quinoa and millet. This ancient-grain blend is cooked in almond milk instead of water, lending it a creaminess and lightly almond taste that is refreshingly unique for a vegan option.
“It feels like the markets are being held back,” Martinez says. “The local govern ment will bend over backwards for tourists. Why not help people who live here and raise families here and are the lifeblood of the community?”
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So I decided to try and experiment and clean myself up and not look quite so dingy.” Searcy started to see fashion as a language — something that can communicate who you are to the rest of the world. She began blog ging about her experiment. In 2012, very few people were talking about making fashion inclusive of all bodies and abilities — and no one Alicia knew. Her interest led her to Nash ville Fashion Week. “I was amazed at what they could do,” she says. “I was amazed at the talent in this town.” As she sat in the audi ence at an NFW event, she had the spark of an idea: “Why can’t we all do this?” In other words, why can’t fashion promote body posi tivity and self-esteem, while being inclusive of ALL bodies? Maybe it could. She started discussing the possibility of a more inclusive fashion show with her friend and collaborator Krystle Ramos. She kept up her experiment and kept blogging. Then, in 2016, David Bowie died. “That just hit me in the head,” Searcy says. “And I went, ‘Oh no. David Bowie can die. If he can die, then I can die.’ Buoyed”by Searcy’s energy and vision, a small crew of volunteers put together the runway show she’d been dreaming about for years. Called Fashion Is for Every Body, the 2016 event sold out three days ahead of the show. Local fashion designers answered her call to work with models on clothing that met their needs. The annual show will take place Saturday, Sept. 10, at Studio615, and it will feature models wearing styles from local designers, a pop-up boutique, cocktails and bites, and an after-party.
rior to 2012, Alicia Searcy was what she now refers to as “anti-fashion.” When she was very young, her mother, who was a model, would criticize her body. “My feet were too fat,” she recalls, “my arms were too big — things that a little kid can’t really help.” Searcy was born with cerebral palsy. She uses a wheel chair and has difficulty with fine motor skills, which limited her options when it came to clothing.
“Adaptive clothing is something that has been modified, so that a person with a particular disability can put this garment on and/or use the garment in a way that they can do completely independently,” Searcy explains. There are magnetic snaps you can put behind buttons without changing the look of the garment. No one looking at it would know it’s a magnet, but for someone with limited fine motor skills, the altera tion makes dressing and undressing much easier. There might be hidden loops that a wearer can use to adjust their pants when they sit down. A shirt might have a strategi cally placed zipper that creates easy access for a Adaptiveport. clothing is “kind of like a good fashion show,” says Searcy. “Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes, because ev erything that comes out is beautiful. … But really, the important thing is, it puts us all on an equal ground and gives us the value as human beings that we deserve.”
“So for a long time,” Searcy says, “I was very anti-fashion. Didn’t want to do it, looked like a bag lady, proud of it. Rock on.” But she started to notice something. “People were treating me really badly be cause I looked so sloppy. They thought that I couldn’t think for myself. So I would go out with other people or try and connect. They would say to the people around me, ‘What does she want? … What will we do with her?’
Chelsie Nitschke volunteered at the first Fashion Is for Every Body show, helping behind the scenes. Nitschke is quadriplegic due to a 2011 car accident, but that didn’t stop Searcy from convincing her to model in the show the following year. “I had never modeled before,” Nitschke tells the Scene. “I had no idea what to do, but I just kind of went along with it.” As Nitschke made her way down the runway for the first time, the shoulder of her dress crept up her neck. “I did a little impromptu thing where I slid it off my shoulder. I had no idea I had that in me!” Some of the models on the Fashion Is for Every Body runway have physical dis abilities, but others don’t. Searcy opens it up to anyone who does not see themselves re flected in mainstream fashion. People wear ing plus sizes, people on the autism spectrum, queer people, people with anxiety — the phi losophy recognizes that our bodies are often the sites and carriers of trauma. Using the language of fashion can help us heal. Nitschke says her first walk on the run way felt “so empowering. You just feel your self. … It was a push to get there, and I was super nervous at first. But after, with the praise from everybody around, the pictures that they took — once I saw the pictures, I thought, ‘Oh dang! I did look good!’ ” She’s modeled in every show since, and she’ll be on the runway this weekend. This year, five local designers and brands are working with models on garments: Ar ticle X, A Lady of the Lake, Laura Citron, Any Old Iron’s Andrew Clancey, and Dahlia, which features Searcy’s designs. This year, Unhidden — an adaptive-clothing brand from London — will have pieces in the show as well. The designers learn a lot in the pro cess about how their clothing can be more inclusive. There are plenty of practical rea sons Fashion Is for Every Body should exist, but it all stems from what Searcy suspected years ago, back when she was ready to chal lenge her anti-fashion stance. “Me, as a disabled person, [I’ve] had to re ally fight to be seen, and to be heard, and to be valued,” Searcy says. “I want you to see me as a fun, valuable person in society. … And I think a lot of people with disabilities want the same thing. A lot of people who are 60, same thing. People who are size 5X want the same thing. People who are LGBTQ. ... We want to be valued. And we want to be valued in a beau tiful way. And that’s what we do.” EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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A lex Jahangir is still a practic ing orthopedic surgeon, as he always was, except now he gets recognized in public al most every day. As the former head of Mayor John Cooper’s COVID-19 task force, he’s a familiar face to Nashvillians. He was the one giving us CO VID-19 updates on TV and via the internet throughout the city’s “Safer at Home” order and beyond. In his new book Hot Spot: A Doc tor’s Diary From the Pandemic, Jahangir gives his detailsresponse,thethaler.ofnotesexpandingaccount,onhiswiththehelpKatieSeigenAsthefaceofcity’sCOVID-19Jahangircriticism he caught, including the ways in which he butted heads with the now former Metro Board of Health director Michael Caldwell, and his frustrations when politics got in the way of the city’s and state’s reactions to the pandemic.TheScene sat down with Jahangir to discuss pandemic wins and regrets, facing medical disinformation and more. Sometimes when people write books they use pseudonyms, so why did you feel it important to use the real names, even in criticism? I swear, I thought this was gonna be a couple of months at the most that I’d be involved. I didn’t think my young kids would remember the experience. So I just started keeping these little notes on the side of my desk. The objective of the journal was for my daughters to one day pick up the journal and read through them like, “Man, Dad did X, Y and Z.” So when the book happened, I felt that objective was still the same. At the end of the day, now not just my daughters, but anyone who picks up this book down the road can look at Nashville history and see what we all went through that one year. My daughters can look up this person’s name and a buzzword and probably find whatever reference I’m making. That was really im portant for me — I want people to hear the story authentically and know that I tried to be as authentic and genuine as I could about the story.
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When it comes to criticism you’ve received about how you handled the pandemic, what do you think was fair and what do you think was unfair? There’s a lot of things we could have done better. I think fair criticisms with 20/20 hindsight, and even in real time, I think our response especially to new Americans — who make up 12 percent of the city — wasn’t as good as it should have been. … I think once we recognized our missteps, we stepped up and partnered with organiza tions such as Siloam, [Conexión Américas] and the Egyptian community and others in the Kurdish community, and we were able to do better — but early on, that was a big mistake.Asfar as criticism that I don’t think was as valid or [was] misinformed, I think the criticism around my personal role in school decisions — that’s something really fascinat ing to me still. I wasn’t involved in the school decision, per se. … I think it’s very easy to go back and find narratives that you want to criticize, and unfortunately, a lot of those narratives are driven by more divisive na tional dialogue. And so that’s disappointing, to say the least. Health officials talk about how they cannot keep up with the spread of disinformation when it comes to the pandemic, and you had at least one person be aggressive toward you in public because of these theories. Do you feel it’s important to correct people based on what you know about COVID-19, or is it sometimes not worth it to try to change minds? I’m a little of both. If some body states things that I think are incorrect, I will say, “I think this and this is why, and I’m glad to share information as to why I think this if you want to see the data.” I’ve had multiple conversations over the years that resulted in somebody who thought one thing, we spoke it out, and either I or they changed their opinion. But also, people want to believe what they want to believe because somebody told them to believe it, and they won’t think for them selves. Don’t take this as me saying it was Trump only. … You see it on the left too in certain things — even to this day of people saying you have to still lock things down or you have to always 24/7 wear masks. I’m a professor of orthopedic surgery, medicine and health policy. I have all the street credit in the academic world. I gradu ated med school in 2003. I know what I know, and I’m comfortable sharing it. And if you don’t want to believe me because you think for some reason I don’t have expertise, well,
I don’t know what more I can do. Knowing what you know now, what is something you would have done differently? We had our “Safer at Home” order, and then we had the things like, “If in two weeks we have decreasing case counts below this number, then we’re gonna do this thing next” — sequential steps. In hindsight that was probably not the greatest way to turn the dial. There probably should have been a more sensitive and transparent metric rather than hard case-count numbers and two-week trends. … It was a little choppy, to say the least. I still believe the reason we did that made sense. We wanted to show people, “Hey, this is a direct impact of mitigation factors.”
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How key was the partnership with Meharry Medical College during the early response to the pan demic? When the pandemic hit … obviously we got Vanderbilt and Ascension and HCA, but we also needed Meharry Medical Col lege. How fortuitous for us that the leader of Meharry [James Hildreth] at this moment is somebody who’s a really solid infectious disease expert worldwide? I never make a secret of it. If you look at the trolls on the internet, you’ll find [people saying], “Why the hell is an orthopedic surgeon leading a pandemic response?” Well, I’m leading it be cause of the crisis component, as a trauma surgeon. I really do well in crises, but when it came to subject-matter expertise, having James Hildreth [who wrote the foreword of the book] as a close friend, ally and adviser did not hurt.
At the time, nobody was giving us advice. There’s no federal government discussion. There’s no state government, per se, guidance.
What are you most proud of? We had one of the highest vaccination rates in the state, and we’ve had vaccination events in Music City Center, Nissan Stadium and our assess ment sites. I think about our community assessment sites open for almost 120 weeks that provided testing, vaccines. … We lost fewer lives than modeling predicted. Metric-wise, those are wins — but more so for me, what I was really proud of is [that] people came together, people sup ported each other, people brought their elderly neighbors to get the vaccine, we saw what Meharry Medical College is and does and continues to do. The partnerships with groups that support new Americans are con tinuing, so we now use these same relation ships to talk about [supplemental nutrition programs] or childhood immunizations. It sounds cheesy, but as a Nashvillian, I’m re ally proud of our city.
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EVERYBODY’S A STAR Derek Hoke’s new LP Electric Mountain arrives as Two Dollar Tuesdays ends BY EDD HURT BERGERALEXPHOTO: ELECTRIC MOUNTAIN OUT FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, VIA 3SIRENS MUSIC GROUP; FINAL TWO DOLLAR TUESDAY SEPT. 13 AT THE 5 SPOT MUSIC
ithout a doubt, the musical landscape of Nashville has changed since singer, guitarist and songwriter Derek Hoke started hosting a multi-artist show, Two Dollar Tuesdays, at Five Points bar and venue The 5 Spot in 2010. Musicians who were beginningjusttomake their reputations played the show in its early days — think Margo Price and Jason Isbell. Many of them are now big stars. But the basic idea of Hoke’s show, which is to present a democratic, nobody’s-a-star approach to making and appreciating music, remains viable in a city exploding with talent. Hoke helped invent contemporary Nashville by presenting music he liked on a small stage in the heart of East Nashville, and that’s no small accomplishment.
“My first gig was at the Radio Cafe, and I just became a sponge, going out to shows and seeing bands and artists play — and slowly starting to write new material,” he says. He released an album, Goodbye Rock N Roll, in 2010, with Nashville greats like steel guitarist Chris Scruggs and singer Me lissa Mathes lending a hand. Goodbye Rock N Roll was, despite its title, no farewell to the musical principles Hoke adheres to, which include a deep love of rock ’n’ roll and country music. Electric Mountain, which is his fifth full-length, peaks with “Got Money,” in which Hoke ex amines materialism and finds it wanting. As he sings, “I’ve been everywhere around the world / I’ve got a Cadillac and a penthouse too / But none of it means a thing without you.” The song’s post-Atlanta Rhythm Section dynamics suit its subject matter perfectly, and Hoke sings in an understated, soul-inflected voice. “I did not make a honky-tonk record,” Hoke explains about Electric Mountain. “There happens to be fiddle and steel, but I’m not singing that way.” His eclecticism has informed the programming of Two Dol lar Tuesdays, which has also featured the expert record spinning of DJ Tim Hibbs for most of its lifetime. When I ask him about specifics of past Two Dollar Tuesdays, Hoke sounds like a guy who’s done so much that it’s hard to remember everything. “It’s kind of a blur to me when I get asked that, because I never thought of there being a definitive begin ning. It probably took, like, six or eight months to get the thing going on sleepy Tuesdays up there at The 5 Spot.” He does recall how his friends — Nash ville greats like Price and Caitlin Rose — took the stage on some of those Tuesday nights. As he reminds me, everyone who has played Two Dollar Tuesdays got time to perform exactly five songs. That includes Hoke, who has closed out every show. Still, there have been plenty of highlights.
“No one lives around here anymore. It’s kind of me and several other people that still live down the street from The 5 Spot. That kind of neighborhood-hang thing has morphed and evolved.” Indeed, the power centers of Nashville have shifted, as they always do, and these days you can find new venues — and new talent — in, say, Madison. Still, Hoke helped pioneer the idea that Nashville’s deep pool of talent, from singer-songwriters to rockers to unclassifiable exponents of folk and soul, is something unique, and worth attending to in an environment that’s both welcoming and radically democratic. After Hoke came to Nashville, he found work at the Belcourt, and he also went on the road, minding the merch table for bluegrass star Ricky Skaggs. In addition, he got famil iar with a town that had begun to expand its musical reach beyond country. He tells me about his love for bands like Lambchop, who became popular in the ’90s, and for musi cians like guitarist William Tyler and pedalsteel player Paul Niehaus.
As Hoke tells me, the decision to end Two Dollar Tuesdays was bound up in his ambi tions for the future and his realization that he’d spent a substantial portion of the past decade waiting for Tuesday to roll around once“That’sagain.a good chunk of one’s life to de vote to something,” Hoke says from his East Nashville home. On the phone, he comes across as thoughtful and energized — he tells me he’s pacing around his backyard and thinking about how his neighborhood has changed in recent years.
“I remember — Peter Buck’s onstage playing bass with this guy, and Mike Mills is in the audience. Or, you know, Jason Isbell played a couple of songs, and nobody knew who he was.”
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All good things come to an end, however, and Sept. 13 marks the final installment of Two Dollar Tuesdays. It’s a bittersweet moment for Hoke, himself an accomplished singer and songwriter who moved to town in 1999. In Nashville, he sought fresh inspiration after growing up in Florence, S.C., as a music fan and self-taught musician who loved classic country, rock ’n’ roll, punk and anything else he found interesting. You can hear his style on his new full-length Electric Mountain, out Friday. It’s a remarkably genre-unspecific collection of songs that often address the complexities of relationships.
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A s summer starts to wind itself to a close (we hope), never forget the strength and endurance that we derive from storytelling. Partially, this is me seconding my colleague and friend Craig D. Lindsey’s recent review of Three Thousand Years of Longing, which is absolutely a film to see in theaters if you feel comfy doing so. But it’s also something that’s been sticking in my mind during all the travails with the current head of Warner Bros. Discovery no-placing all sorts of completed works that would otherwise help make society bearable. This isn’t meant as a political harangue — just an observation. If you get rid of things that people love, that makes you a bad person. But if you also get rid of things that people love and are popular, then that makes you a bad businessperson, and surely at least one of those realizations should sink in. As always, here are some recommendations for what to stream (and to check out elsewhere). Look back at past issues of the Scene for more.
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ORPHAN: FIRST KILL IN THEATERS AND VIA If 2009’s Orphan was a neat inversion of gothic tradition and parental psychosis, this prequel extends its tendrils into Lifetime true-crime riffs, gauzy nighttime soap operas, ultraviolet Electra dramas, and the meticulous vivisection of modern American wealth. Mark my words — somewhere there’s a grad student working on a thesis that understands the Orphan diptych as critiques of domestic and foreign policy, and more power to them for that. And that isn’t even getting into the way this particular narrative seems to be Tarantino-style whatif-ing one of the more infamous unsolved crimes in rich white American history. Esther, the titular orphan, is the best horror icon to come along in years. This is her show, and Isabelle Fuhrman is a treasure, capable of childhood innocence, hardened intrigue and deeply upsetting emotions. In all fairness, this prequel is subtitled First Kill, but it’s not even Esther’s first family-sized spree. Dare we dream of another Esther story, even further back in time? The filmmakers go all out with forced perspective shots, child-size body doubles and gauzy surreality to bring the audience along for the ride. Julia Stiles in this film is giving a performance on several levels, and part of me really wishes she had had this kind of fine-hewn freedom when she had to slog through that Omen remake back in 2006.
The new season of The Kids in the Hall (their first since the mid-’90s) is a triumph that we don’t even really have an apt comparison for. It is not a disappointment, and it manages to evolve and transcend even what it was and is fondly remembered for being. You’ll find some similarities with Season 3 of Twin Peaks, but sketch comedy and cosmic drama aren’t exactly working in the same spaces. Point being, the new Kids in the Hall is a joyous return that finds the Canadian quintet continuing at the top of their game. Some of the beloved characters from the previous CBC/HBO/CBS run return, but never in a way that feels empty or shameless. Bigger than any single character, though, is the world that the Kids bring back, a pansexual space where anything is possible, as long as it’s funny.
You might have seen the WNUF Halloween Special (currently streaming on Shudder), a creative and kicky foundfootage film from a few years back. WNUF presented itself as the preserved broadcast of a UHF station’s community Halloween special that took a detour into some unsettling pathways. It was a little ragged around the edges, but director Chris LaMartina and his resourceful buddies came up with something distinctive — especially in the manufactured ads they used diegetically — as part of the broadcast.
Stiles has a gift for the tightrope walk between arch and camp, and she gets some killer lines. As this film’s Agamemnon equivalent, Rossif Sutherland (you might remember him as Andrea Riseborough’s fuzzy academic of a husband in Possessor) leans into genuine emotions, and it works; this is the kind of performance that helps ground the continuum for the other actors, allowing them to go hog wild as need be.
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