I love East Nashville!

One of my favorite songs by Todd Snider is called From a Rooftop. I guess you could call it a song. It is a simple piece...just Todd talking about East Nashville over a simple, yet beautiful melody on his guitar. It oh so beautifully describes East Nashville, and why Francie and I love it so much. It sits just the otherside of the Cumberland River from Nashville, but in some ways it's a whole other world. It's home to many wonderful little bars, and beer joints, cafes, coffee shops, and little shops and music studios. There's the bid studios like Woodland St. Studios, and many people have a little one in their house (though not 'legally'). It's also home many alt-county and country musicians, and well as those working behind the scene in the recording industry. It also feels like home to us when we are there! We got to hear of East Nashville, or as they call it there, "The Good 'hood" or say, "37206 We'll steal your heart, and your lawnmower" from Todd Snider through his music, and fell in love with it the first time we went there.



Here is a link to the song, as well as the lyrics. Sadly, the Radio Cafe and The Alley Cat are no longer open. Two great losses. I hope you enjoy it. Be warned, there are a couple 'cuss' wors for those that object.

From a Rooftop by Todd Snider

http://ilike.myspacecdn.com/play#Todd+Snider:From+a+Rooftop:14935042:s40114558.10756971.18897108.0.2.22%2Cstd_bc5830b5cbf94248b030aef03da63d5a

East Nashville? Shit man.
We're living in a dreamworld over here.
Born on a full moon's what I heard
Turned over drinks from a neighborhood into a full-on goddamn dreamworld.
By two guys if you ask me...Mike 'Grimey' Grimes and Skip Kenneth Francis "Play a fuckin' train song' Litz.
The spirit of whom many still claim to see on a full moon to this day
Swervin' up Woodland in that ghost of a Cadilac he drives

Of course a lot of us smoke more dope before 9am
than most people do all day.
Saturday nights at The Three Crow, Sunday's - Alley Cat.
We're that guy from your town that would rather pick then eat
And we all met here to do almost exactly that

We usually got about half a tank of gas
And we don't feel like crossing the river
But we will. We will if it's for a song we like.

Nobody else in the whole world knows when Mac's
gonna open The Radio Cafe
But we do. And we tell each other
We stand around there and smoke during Dave Olney's break
Just like we do outside The Family Wash during Tommy Womack's

On the Fourth, we have the best illegal firworks show on Earth.
Last year, we even got it together to organize a non-fly-over by the
United States Air Force
It was beautiful
We were all pretty high
Our skyline, it ain't very high
It says, "Discount Cigarettes, Liquor and Wine" across it
I think our neighborhood's a lot like our skyline
We got great news, and we're shoutin' it from the highest rooftop we got!

It's foggy in here!

Wait...that's not fog! It's all the dust that has been piling up on this blog. That is what they still call these things right? Been a long time since I've last posted, and a lot has happened in that time. What a long strange trip it's been! More coming soon...