Cesar Rosas played this bajo sexto, a traditional Mexican twelve-string guitar, onstage with Los Lobos. Over the past fifty years, Los Lobos have become key players on the L.A. roots music scene, exploring Mexican music, American blues, country, rhythm & blues, and zydeco.
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New Girls’ Club
Spurred by gun violence and the reversal of Roe v. Wade more women are joining the race BY HANNAH HERNER
Pith in the Wind
This week on the Scene’s news and politics blog
Teachers Helping Teachers
The Educators’ Cooperative and the Diverse Learners Cooperative help teachers empower one another BY KELSEY BEYELER
Eighth Avenue Skyscraper Draws Neighborhood Opponents
Angry flyers and a tense community meeting kick off rezone fight for a new 16-story tower BY ELI
MOTYCKA
COVER STORY
36th Annual ‘You Are So Nashville If …’
See the winners, honorable mentions and other gems in our annual YASNI contest
CRITICS’ PICKS
Cirque du Soleil: Songblazers, RobinAugust, Amadeus, Lisa Loeb, Sandlot-A-Palooza and more
FOOD AND DRINK
At the Market: Cosecha Community Market
Pastor Carlos Uroza is focused on facilitating community spaces in the Woodbine neighborhood BY KELSEY BEYELER
Booze Hound: Sazerac at Le Loup Ford Fry’s Germantown establishment does a classic cocktail the classic way BY D. PATRICK RODGERS ART
To Lose My Mind and Find My Soul Dana Oldfather’s mutable landscapes reveal an artist in full control BY CAT ACREE
Healing the Mother Wound
Sarai Johnson’s debut novel is a moving exploration of womanhood and motherhood BY TONYA ABARI; CHAPTER16.ORG
MUSIC
Pet Theories
Catching up with Be Your Own Pet’s Jonas Stein ahead of the reunited punk heroes’ stop at Eastside Bowl BY LOGAN BUTTS
Another Look
The Scene’s music writers recommend recent releases from Ron Obasi, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and more BY SCENE STAFF AND CONTRIBUTORS
Vibe on the Small Finds
Talking with Corin Tucker about seeing the big picture on Sleater-Kinney’s Little Rope BY HANNAH CRON
The Spin
The Scene’s live-review column checks out Swamp Dogg at Grimey’s New and Preloved Music BY RON WYNN
Love Sucks A conversation about Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person BY KIM BALDWIN AND JASON SHAWHAN
STAFF WRITERS Kelsey Beyeler, Logan Butts, John Glennon, Hannah Herner, Hamilton Matthew Masters, Eli Motycka, Nicolle Praino, William Williams
SENIOR FILM CRITIC Jason Shawhan
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Sadaf Ahsan, Ken Arnold, Ben Arthur, Radley Balko, Ashley Brantley, Maria Browning, Steve Cavendish, Chris Chamberlain, Rachel Cholst, Lance Conzett, Hannah Cron, Connor Daryani, Stephen Elliott, Steve Erickson, Adam Gold, Kashif Andrew Graham, Seth Graves, Kim Green, Amanda Haggard, Steven Hale, Edd Hurt, Jennifer Justus, P.J. Kinzer, Janet Kurtz, Christine Kreyling, J.R. Lind, Craig D. Lindsey, Margaret Littman, Sean L. Maloney, Brittney McKenna, Addie Moore, Marissa R. Moss, Noel Murray, Joe Nolan, Betsy Phillips, John Pitcher, Margaret Renkl, Daryl Sanders, Nadine Smith, Ashley Spurgeon, Amy Stumpfl, Kay West, Andrea Williams, Nicole Williams, Ron Wynn, Charlie Zaillian
EDITORIAL INTERNS Aiden O’Neill, Joanna Walden
ART DIRECTOR Elizabeth Jones
PHOTOGRAPHERS Angelina Castillo, Eric England, Matt Masters
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Sandi Harrison, Mary Louise Meadors, Tracey Starck
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NEW GIRLS’ CLUB
Spurred by gun violence and the reversal of Roe v. Wade, more women are joining the race
WHEN TERI MAI got involved in the Williamson County Democratic Party, she hoped to meet a candidate to support in state House District 92 — someone who could challenge Republican incumbent Rep. Todd Warner. After looking around, party members suggested she look in the mirror.
It’s a similar story for other Middle Tennessee candidates including Alison Beale, Claire Jones, Laura Andreson and Ailina Carona. They were each spurred into advocacy work by a combination of Tennessee’s strict abortion ban and the deadly March 23 shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School. Then they became disillusioned by Tennessee lawmakers doubling down on lax gun laws and refusing to widen exceptions for abortion. So they put their name in the ring to replace those lawmakers.
The veil was lifted, says Beale, who is challenging Rep. Johnny Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) as a Democrat in House District 45. Her origin story is the bulletproof backpack she bought her preschool-age daughter in the days following the Covenant shooting. But that wasn’t the first time she’d been touched by gun violence. A former teacher, she taught fellow candidate Shaundelle Brooks’ younger son the year after his brother was killed in Nashville’s Waffle House shooting.
“I was one of so many parents who were just grasping at straws, just trying to find an element of control because we were all so terrified to send our kids to school,” Beale says. “And our legislature wasn’t doing anything about it. … If kids getting killed at school isn’t enough to move them to action, then nothing will, and we have to vote them out.”
Brooks is currently running for the Democratic nomination in Nashville’s House District 60.
“I saw my son in the casket, and I said, right then, I would do everything in my power to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Brooks recently told the Scene for a previous story. “It has to start with background checks — those are the foundation of stricter gun laws — to make sure people are mentally stable enough to carry.”
Jones, like many others among the slate of new candidates, lives at an intersection of causes — a woman in her reproductive years with school-age children. She also experienced
BY HANNAH HERNER
gun violence when her former co-worker was shot and killed in a road rage incident in December 2020. She’s running in the Democratic primary and calls the House District 61 incumbent, Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood), “one of the most dangerous people in the legislature.”
“All the things I’m running on — education, health care, women’s reproductive rights and gun violence — all of those are directly affecting my life right now,” says Jones.
Andreson, an OB-GYN, became a familiar face in protests against the reversal of Roe v. Wade She joined a lawsuit against the state of Tennessee asking for clarity on when exactly the mother’s life is considered in danger — one of the few instances in which an abortion is legal.
She told a friend involved in the Williamson County Democratic Party that she’d like to run, but not for a couple of years. Ultimately, Andreson was persuaded that the time is now to challenge Rep. Jake McCalmon (R-Franklin) in House District 63.
“As an OB, I was always a little fearful that the anti-abortion folks [will] come after people,” Andreson tells the Scene. “I’ve always been a little bit guarded. … But when this happened, I was so upset that I had missed so many opportunities to advocate for Roe, to not let Roe fall. I just feel like I missed my mark on that, and I feel like if I don’t do it, if I don’t take the steps and try to make change, I will regret it the rest of my life.”
There’s momentum across the state, especially for women running for the first time.
Clarksville Democrat Allie Phillips, Andreson’s co-plaintiff, announced her campaign for House District 75 back in October, inspired by her life-threatening pregnancy. Gun safety advocate Maryam Abolfazli is running as a Democrat for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, a seat currently held by far-right Republican Rep Andy Ogles. First-time candidates are the norm on Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood’s endorsement list. The organization recently announced it would invest in candidates rather than lobbying.
Mai says it’s a conscious strategy of the Tennessee Democratic Party to leave no Republican unopposed. House District 57 incumbent Rep. Susan Lynn (R-Mt. Juliet) ran unopposed in 2022
before Carona stepped up, and Beale’s opponent Garrett went unopposed in the 2022 and 2020 elections. Beale says having a Democrat on the ballot will allow the party to measure how much support could live in a given district. The district she’s running in looks deep red, but she says she knows that’s not true — it’s just 20 minutes from downtown Nashville.
“There are so many things that are lacking within the foundation of Democratic politics in Tennessee,” Beale says. “This is exciting, to have this wave of self-activated first-time candidates who are serious about it and are going to give their all to running a race, because I think we’re going to get a lot of valuable data. I think we’re going to get a lot of momentum, and it’s going to start this big wave of change.”
Recruiting and organizing group Emerge Tennessee has been pushing for this very trend — Democratic women running for office. Beale, Jones, Phillips, Brooks and Carona are beneficiaries. The organization offers training for women interested in running for office, but also prepares them for the at-home challenges. Running for a state office requires job flexibility and financial stability, which executive director Freda Player points out is even harder to achieve for women and people of color. Beale, Jones and Carona all have young children.
“They say a woman, you have to ask seven times before they say yes to run, compared to a man, you have to ask once,” Player says. “For the women, it’s really like, ‘Can my partner or spouse take responsibilities? Are they willing to do a lot of the domestic work and child-rearing work, knowing that they’re going to be working as a single parent for the next 60 to 90 days?’”
Carona thinks she’ll stay involved in politics and activism after this election, regardless of the outcome.
“It’s been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, outside of birthing a child,” she says. “I have three kids, and after the first one, I swore I’d never do it again, because it was so hard. And then I had two more. I kind of feel the same way about the campaign. … Women are made for a capacity for pain that is so much more than men, and I think that can transfer into all areas of our life.”
Tennessee delegates to the Democratic National Convention have unanimously pledged support for Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris announced her presidential run Sunday after news broke that President Joe Biden would bow out of the race before receiving his party’s nomination at the DNC in August. Biden quickly endorsed Harris as the party enters uncharted territory in the race to defeat Donald Trump. Tennessee Democrats appeared to be the first state delegation to pivot to Harris, indicating a coordinated effort to streamline what has been a chaotic few weeks for the party. When Tennessee Democrats indicated their presidential preference for Biden in the March primary, their votes secured 77 Tennessee delegates “pledged” to Biden at the convention, where the actual nomination process plays out. Tennessee delegates include elected officials, donors, party insiders and high-profile politicians like Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell who will all travel to Chicago to represent the state as the national party officially chooses its new nominee.
Nazi provocateurs disrupted last week’s Metro Council meeting, prompting police to clear the chamber gallery. Several elected officials condemned the group from the council floor. The group — a dozen loosely organized men from across the continent, including at least two from Canada — tell the Scene that they came to Nashville because of the city’s significance as a liberal bastion within a state dominated by conservative politics. The city’s response, though, should be heartening, according to Scene contributor Betsy Phillips Their very presence also highlights the public and shameful connection between Nazis, the state lawmakers who inflame far-right fear, and the hate produced by so much fear in Tennessee politics, argues Phillips.
Early voting runs through Saturday, July 27, in primary races across Tennessee. Thousands have already voted in Davidson County, where state House races and a contested GOP congressional primary headline the ballot. Reporter Eli Motycka joined editorin-chief D. Patrick Rodgers and host Jerome Moore on the latest Nashville Scene Podcast to dig into some of the important political storylines ahead of Election Day Aug. 1
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TEACHERS HELPING TEACHERS
The Educators’ Cooperative and the Diverse Learners Cooperative help teachers empower one another BY
KELSEY BEYELER
FOR ALL THE conversations about the challenges Nashville’s educators face, many are also focused on finding solutions. Sure, there are systemic-level problems that would best be addressed through state or local policy change, but there are also countless opportunities to enhance everyday school experiences for students and educators. Among the most compelling ideas are those introduced by teachers themselves, who know firsthand the joys and difficulties of the classroom.
Two local organizations — The Educators’ Cooperative and the Diverse Learners Cooperative — create environments for teachers to nurture those ideas and support one another so they can better support their students while also fulfilling state professional development requirements. In doing so, the organizations also support teacher longevity in a demanding career with high turnover rates. The Educators’ Cooperative caters to teachers more focused on the general student population. Diverse Learners Cooperative supports those who want to better serve students with diverse learning needs, such as those with disabilities or multilingual learners, though they work with teachers of all educational backgrounds. These organizations work with teachers from public, private and charter schools, creating important connections among educators who, despite different educational settings, share the same goal: educating and
inspiring students.
Founded by Greg O’Loughlin, The Educators’ Cooperative is “a mutual aid network for teachers, by teachers.” Though Amy Nystrand now serves as the group’s executive director, O’Loughlin is still involved with the organization. The Educators’ Cooperative provides myriad resources for all teachers, but its members receive the most support — including access to a private online server where they can reach out with questions or issues and receive feedback from others in the network. It also provides antiracist teaching workshops and regular coffee meetups. While members get the most opportunities to engage with the organization, The Educators’ Cooperative shares resources that all teachers can access, such as archived session information. It also hosts “Culture Corner” workshops, where teachers can connect with local artists and discuss ways to foster creativity and connect with art in the classroom. The Educators’ Cooperative’s annual conference also
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allows educators to present long-term projects and share additional resources with the wider community. Nystrand tells the Scene the organization cares about making educators feel “autonomy in their professional development.”
To become a member, teachers have to apply for and complete a summer workshop. This year the organization shepherded its 10th cohort through the summer workshop in June. Twenty-two new members met at University School of Nashville for five days of programming, adding to an internal network of more than 200 teachers. The Scene talked with some of those teachers, who discussed the benefit of seeking professional support outside their own school buildings, among others with different perspectives on similar experiences. They say it gave them the insight to identify solutions to problems, ask for help where they didn’t think they could, and address problems that may have become normalized at one school but not others.
Like The Educators’ Cooperative, the Diverse Learners Cooperative seeks to create a network of educators and empower them with resources and experiences to better serve students. The Diverse Learners Cooperative also provides in-school support and is partnering with the Nashville Teacher Residency to help educators get their special education certification. Its yearlong fellowship program recently kicked off its fifth cohort, which includes a three-day summer session, mentorship and coaching led by former teachers and more. Throughout the year, fellows also develop a project meant to address a specific issue, which they’ll present at an annual exposition so other school leaders can learn about different solutions-oriented approaches around the district.
Diverse Learners Cooperative executive director Brooke Allen explains to the Scene that one such project came from a teacher who noticed paraprofessionals were feeling under-equipped in their work supporting teachers and students with disabilities. The teacher decided to coordinate small, 15-minute training sessions around specific topics before school. Those trainings were so helpful that, upon request from the paraprofessionals, they expanded into weekly hourlong sessions. Not only did the paraprofessionals feel more equipped to work with students — they all returned to their jobs the next school year, which Allen says is rare, and the principal allocated money in the next year’s budget to continue the trainings.
Amid all the resources that The Educators’ Cooperative and the Diverse Learners Cooperatives produce, perhaps the most valuable asset they facilitate is community. In a profession that can feel isolating, connecting with people who understand its challenges and empower one another to find solutions — or simply just listen — creates a huge impact that can’t be achieved through top-down-style professional development lectures.
“To be able to connect with other people who are also developing unique resources and solutions, it just makes that job so much easier,” says Allen. ▼
EIGHTH AVENUE SKYSCRAPER DRAWS
NEIGHBORHOOD OPPONENTS
Angry flyers and a tense community meeting kick off rezone fight for a new 16-story tower
BY ELI MOTYCKA
A SUN-BLEACHED SIGN for Berry Hill Animal Hospital is the only thing left between 2209 and 2211 Eighth Ave., a small commercial strip that’s facing big changes. The vet’s office is still in business — it moved across the street a few years ago after Mainland Companies, a real estate firm in Hillsboro Village, scooped up both properties for $3 million.
“It’s been empty, what, almost two years now?” says Kao Phosorath, manager at The Smiling Elephant, who looks to another employee for confirmation during a Thursday lunch rush. “Until that flyer came, we hadn’t heard anything. I know something’s going to come — it is their property — I just hope it’s not way, way too tall and that the construction does not do damage to us. Our owners here, they will never sell, and they get lots of offers. We are not going anywhere.”
Kao remembers the construction headache, blasting and debris when the Publix was built on the other side of The Smiling Elephant, a popular Thai restaurant known for its green bean noodles and various stir-fry offerings. A printed flyer showed up at the restaurant in mid-July. The same posters appeared down Eighth Avenue, plastered with indignant phrases framing a money-spewing skyscraper with three eyes. Interested neighbors are called to the zoning appeal hearing at 1 p.m. on Aug. 1 to “speak out” against “Gulch 2.0” and “big shot investors laughing all the way to the bank.”
First-term district Councilmember Terry Vo, whose support could pave the way for the project, must balance its potential with blowback from nearby neighbors, many of whom describe the area’s peace, quiet and historic character as assets on the auction block. Vo
tells the Scene she is still collecting information about the project and has not decided whether to officially support a rezoning.
Mainland Companies CEO Ken Larish wants residents to see the future with him.
“I think it’s going to have a real sense of place, and I feel like we can really do a great job on the pedestrian, retail and knitting the street together and making it walkable,” said Larish at a recent community meeting in the basement of The Cookery. “It may lead to more modern and higher-end developments.”
Larish spoke mainly to a few concerned attendees in the front row. For more than two hours, he answered questions from the room. Behind him, Larish had landuse attorney and former Metro zoning administrator Jon Michael, who will help Mainland Companies argue for a zoning change approving a 16-story tower at the site. Late in the meeting, Michael laid out the legal reality of the upcoming BZA hearing. At times, he quoted Metro code from memory.
“We have objective conditions that we check, and we do that with the plans, the math, the arithmetic, and the renderings — we do what is required of us,” said Michael during a tense exchange with one neighbor. “If I like it, if I don’t like it, that doesn’t matter. It just matters if we can meet their criteria. Our feelings really don’t matter. That’s a harsh thing to say, but it’s accurate. If I’m an opponent, I try to argue that I don’t think they meet these criteria or one of the conditions. This is effectively me giving you legal advice on how to oppose the project that I’m supporting.”
Posters behind Michael and Larish showed a bustling
street-side patio with street-level retail shops. Above, Mainland promises 15 floors of condos flooded with natural light. For proponents, an overcrowded bike rack symbolizes new residents eager to walk, bike or use public transportation along a priority transit corridor. For opponents, the bike rack conceals a coming parking crisis. The next easel props up the rezoning sought by Mainland, visualized in two dimensions. Mainland’s proposed building, which Larish praises as “slender,” breaks the dimensional envelope allowed by property right, which evenly scales height and width like a pyramid.
“If we lose at the BZA, we would pursue the development of the building as a matter of right,” said Larish. “And that would be a shame, because it would be a worse building.”
Outside the meeting, Eric Steele spoke with the Scene about the ongoing effort from neighbors to jointly express dissatisfaction with the proposal, which he calls a “middle finger” to the neighborhood. Beyond parking fears, Steele worries the building will bring tourist chaos and increase incidents of public intoxication through the surrounding neighborhoods, where he grew up and lives now.
“I’ve got a pretty good background in real estate, and now this is personal,” Steele, an associate director in commercial real estate, tells the Scene. “Regardless of how well they do it, someone else is coming in right after them. I told my friend before the meeting, ‘We don’t need to share too much, let’s save it for the zoning hearing.’ I don’t think the process really is set up to get that kind of community input anyway.” ▼
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WEINER
See the winners, honorable mentions and other gems in our annual YASNI contest
OVER THE COURSE of three-and-a-half decades, “You Are So Nashville If …” has remained one of the Scene’s most popular annual cover stories. We like to think that’s because Nashvillians have a sense of humor about themselves — or at least a morbid sense of curiosity.
For our 36th annual YASNI issue, we once again asked readers to complete that fateful phrase — and our readers did not disappoint. As ever, among the roughly 1,200 entries we received in this year’s competition, there were references to Dolly Parton, the country music industry and conflict between state leadership and our city. There were also many — too many — variations on the phrase “You are so Nashville if you’re
not from here.” But in addition to the perennial favorites, there were also loads of 2024-specific references. About 45 submissions referenced embattled country singer Morgan Wallen, his namesake Lower Broad bar and/or his April arrest for allegedly throwing a chair off the roof of Eric Church’s Chief’s. Thirty-two entries referenced the Brood XIX cicadas, 20 decried the state of Nashville traffic, 19 lamented the recent death of local icon Bart Durham, and 16 beat up on Nashvillians’ new favorite punching bags: California transplants. Readers also loved referencing dogged NewsChannel 5 reporter Phil Williams (13 entries), first-term Mayor Freddie O’Connell (12 entries) and controversy-courting culture warrior Gino Bulso (five entries), who is the Brentwood Republican representing state House District 61.
As always, the Scene’s editorial team combed through all the
submissions, and after a daylong meeting, we narrowed down our list to roughly 200 entries that are funny, original, incisive or, ideally, some combination of the three. Below find our first-, second- and third-place winners and our honorable mentions, along with everything else that made the cut. This year we did away with the Weirdies — the entries that don’t make a lick of sense. (Maybe there’s something in the water, or maybe it’s a sign of these unprecedented times, but the submissions — the funny ones and the grim ones alike — made a lot more sense than usual.) We did, however, compile a list of particularly earnest entries: They weren’t exactly funny, but they’re just too damn wholesome to do away with altogether.
Dive into this year’s entries, accompanied this year by top-notch illustrations by artist Lauren Cierzan. Thanks for submitting, and thanks for reading. —D.
PATRICK RODGERS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
You wonder which will return first: the cicadas or women’s rights? —ANDY GASPARINI
ABOUT THE WINNER
Golf course mechanic and occasional audio engineer Andy Gasparini is no stranger to our “You Are So Nashville If …” contest. He’s had entries in just about every YASNI issue since at least 2011. He’s even scored honorable mentions in 2013, 2020, 2022 and 2023, plus a third-place nod in 2019.
“If you guys ever did a lifetime achievement award, I think I’d have a real shot at it,” Gasparini tells the Scene by phone.
This year, a whopping nine of his quips made it into the issue. The winning entry combined two of this year’s biggest topics into one line that was part silly, part deadly serious. It’s a good analogy for Nashville — a place that Gasparini says is full of both good and bad.
“I do believe Nashville is a great city, despite a lot of un-great people loving it,” he says. “You have great things happening in the communities — and then you also have what seems like Nazis every couple of weeks. Finding humor in a lot of those situations can be challenging sometimes, but I think we’re sort of honor-bound to do it. Otherwise, we just sit around crying all the time.”
“We are a certain kind of person’s favorite place to go to get blackout drunk,” he says. “It’s like MAGA Mardi Gras down there every Friday and Saturday night — that’s not something that all of us can be proud of. But if you look at what’s happening in, you know, Donelson or Sylvan Park, or all the things that are happening in Madison — there’s all these cool things happening. Sometimes it takes a Nashville Scene to sort of point people in those directions.
“It’s not all Morgan Wallen.”
SECOND PLACE
You have to keep explaining that the Nashville Predators are our hockey team and not a nickname for our congressmen
AND THE REST:
You still don’t know which of the three Republican bozos is your congressional representative. —DON POCEK
Your congressional district is the same shape as your missing puzzle piece. —LINDA WIRTH
Your new voting district circles around your kitchen on its way to Clarksville. —JESSE CASE
You live in the largest city in the state, but no U.S. Congressman lives within 50 miles.
—JOHN COLLETTE
Google Fiber first tried hanging their lines on telephone poles, then tried burying them in the street, and now just tape them to the sidewalk and hope for the best. —STEPHEN YEARGIN
Your university somehow thinks that open dialogue means arresting a journalist.
—ANONYMOUS
Vanderbilt tried to arrest you while reading this.
—JAMIE YOST
Your alma mater arrests journalists. —KEN LASS
You’re scared the new Giarratana Tower will replace the Batman Building on the Roku screen saver. —ANDY GASPARINI
You can’t hear the tornado sirens over the
THIRD PLACE
You always wanted Morgan Wallen to take a seat, but not like that. —ROBIN WILMOTH
HONORABLE MENTIONS
You were proud of the city’s progress, then you Googled who your street was named after.
—JESSE CASE
You get your 15 minutes of fame from your child bride’s 6-year-old son. —KEVIN TUMMINELLO
—ASHLEY HASKINS
cicadas. —LEANN STEPHENSON
You think it’s nice that Gino Bulso sometimes takes a break from legislating gay hate to advocate for a cause he cares deeply about: cousin marriage. —CHARLIE HARRIS
You’ve tried making reservations at “Cicada” instead of “Locust” more than once. —JIM FLAUTT
Your top-rated restaurant is named after a plague. —KEN LASS
Your favorite pie at Pinky Ring Pizza is “The Isbell” — no sauce, a thin layer of cheese and heavy on the beef. —WILLIAM HALL
Your name is “Analog” but you only accept digital payment. —DANIEL LEATHERSICH
So like is Arnold’s open or closed or what?
—TRENT HANNER
You can explain the bizarre wall at the new Dunks on Gallatin. —SARA MEISSNER
So where are all the Nazis gonna get their gas now? —ANDY GASPARINI
Your attorney general sent a strongly worded letter condemning this contest. —LEONARD ASSANTE
You know that “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch” is an honorary title for NewsChannel 5’s Phil Williams and not that one lady on Nextdoor.
—STEPHEN YEARGIN
You couldn’t save the Rock Block, and at this
After multiple explanations and podcasts, you still don’t understand what happened at Metro Arts. —TRENT HANNER
A bill banning the transport of vaccines via lettuce isn’t even the stupidest law to pass in your statehouse in a single session.
—HILARY JONES
rate, you’re not even sure you can save the West End Chili’s. —CHARLIE HARRIS
Your best music venues are disappearing faster than your police oversight boards.
—ANDY GASPARINI
You first thought that the new Oracle campus was just another megachurch. —WANDO WEAVER
You personally know like eight dudes in Killers of the Flower Moon —DREW MAYNARD
You were really hoping for a Chris Gaines bar instead of a Garth Brooks bar. —MEGAN MINARICH
We all know that Garth’s friend in low places is Chris Gaines. —MEGAN MINARICH
You have your friend’s Baja order saved in your phone. —BENJAMIN KILLION
You thought “participatory budgeting” was a new small plates restaurant. —MARK NAIFEH
You are holding out for a Jim Varney honkytonk. —DANIEL SMITH
You go to the Renaissance festival to escape the Dark Ages mindset of the Tennessee General Assembly. —CHRIS JARVIS
You get your 10,000 steps a day running from Phil Williams’ microphone. —HILARY JONES
You agree that Nissan Stadium would make one hell of a Spirit Halloween store.
—ASHLEY HASKINS
You’re not sure if you want more or less mentions on John Oliver this year. —ANDY GASPARINI
Your plumber has a Grammy. —DON COOK
Your plumber has a grammy. —CAROL ROWLAND
Your dental hygienist has her first country CD for sale at the dentist office.
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Your Instacart order is composed entirely of products with Dolly’s face on them.
—HILARY JONES
Your favorite restaurant closes while the waitstaff is on tour. —PAM SHERIDAN
Your household makes six figures, but you rely on your library card to get into cultural institutions. —TRENT HANNER
Parental choice means you get to decide what books other people’s kids can’t read. —KEITH HEIM
You take your kids to Hooters to prevent them from being oversexualized at the library.
—KEITH HEIM
You always knew deep down that Plaza Mariachi was too good to be true. —LESLIE HALES
You know you’re in the clear when @NashSevereWx signs off on the live feed. —EMILEE WARNER
There’s not a single 615 area code on your kid’s class parent text thread. —JESSE NEWKIRK
Nothing yet on guns, but it’s good our state government finally solved that chemtrail problem that’s been plaguing our state.
—ANDY GASPARINI
You came here to sell songs but you’ve sold more houses. —JIMMY STRATTON
You’ve parked on I-40 and walked to your check-in counter at the airport. —HILARY JONES
You hear that Music Row is worried about AI taking over, but also wonder if we would even notice. —ANDY GASPARINI
You offer Morgan Wallen a seat, but only if he’s on the first floor. —TINA CALDWELL
You wonder how long it will be before Morgan Wallen gets arrested at his own bar. —HILARY JONES
Morgan Wallen is your favorite kaiju. —ANDY KUGLER
You figure the legislature would sooner erect a statue of Morgan Wallen throwing a chair off a rooftop than honor Allison Russell. —STEPHEN YEARGIN
You wonder who did a drunken power show better in downtown Nashville: Morgan Wallen throwing a chair off a rooftop bar or Cameron Sexton controlling the committee chairs in the legislature. —CLIFTON KAISER
Your rooftop chair is outlawed but your gun isn’t. —RICK GUIDEN
When walking downtown, you were hit by both a flying cicada and a flying chair. —JIM FLAUTT
The forecast calls for cloudy with a chance of chairs! —JACKI GIARDINA
The possibility of getting brained by a celebritytossed chair is not even in your top five reasons for avoiding Lower Broad. —DAN BARRY
The likelihood of your name being on a bar here is higher than anywhere in the world. Throw a chair to celebrate. —TRENT HANNER
You know it’s only a matter of time before the Tennessee Supreme Court hears arguments on whether throwing a chair from a rooftop bar qualifies as protected speech. —CHARLIE HARRIS
You threw a chair and all you got was this lousy mugshot. —JAMIE YOST
You installed a Ring camera in the hopes your drunken neighbor is friends with someone famous. —MAEVE McCONVILLE
You’ve made multiple TikTok videos that start like this: “Hey ladies, if your fiancé’s name is Brad and he’s on a bachelor weekend in
NASHVILLE
Nashville right now, DO NOT MARRY HIM!!!”
—ALISON O’CONNOR
Next on Nashville Public Television: This Old
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—STEPHEN YEARGIN
You think that woman should be suing her realtor instead of Roy’s Meat Service.
—STEPHEN YEARGIN
Megan Barry’s bad decisions are still better than your current representative’s best decisions.
—MAEVE McCONVILLE
You think Megan Barry needs a couple more felonies to get her political career back on track. —THOM CASE
The phrase “She thinks she’s the Christopher Columbus of Ramen in Nashville” might be the best insult you’ve heard in a long time.
—LESLIE HALES
The only Stanley Cup you’ve ever seen was pink and had a straw. —KEITH HEIM
East Nashville needs an emergency warning system to alert residents when Nissan Stadium events let out. —LESLIE HALES
You have a special pillow you only use for concerts at the Ryman. —EMILY FREITAG
You chair the Equity Committee of your restrictive covenant-bearing Forest Hills HOA.
—WILLIAM HALL
You’re fixin’ to move away. —ROBIN DAUGHERTY
You read the Nashville Scene, a commie rag.
—JERRY KIMBRO
You requested a cigarette nine miles long from your CBD shop. —KENNETH ANCHOR
iPhone autocorrect still thinks your team’s quarterback works for a jeans company.
—ADDISON POND
You are still wondering as to the whereabouts of the Nun Bun. —JAMIE YOST
You’ve gone an extra week with no airconditioning to avoid using Lee Company.
—JESSE CASE
You’re down one option for HVAC service because you don’t want to give the governor your money. —SARAH DENSON
Your recovery group has an open-mic night.
—HEATHER HELTON
You think that the transit referendum can’t be that great if Lee Beaman isn’t against it.
—C. GABRIEL
You remember when the hotel at West End and 17th was a small lake on Google Maps.
—SARAH DENSON
Your husband needed new glasses after hitting the Shelby Golf Course sledding hill a little too hard. —EMILY FREITAG
You can’t afford to live in the same district you teach in. —JAIME RIECKHOFF
You keep waiting for David Plazas to come out with a hard-hitting editorial against rabid dogs. —JERRY O’CONNOR
When it snows, Maldon salt is your go-to for the driveway and sidewalk. —JIM FLAUTT
Going to visit the Priest on Sunday involves a Motorboat and Cooler. —MARK BARTLETT
The last concert you attended was at the airport.
—ALLISON DAMRATOSKI
The House of Representatives tried to make you present your ticket to read this issue. —JAMIE YOST
Your moms’ group has a dot on the SPLC Hate Map. —BRADY MILLS
HONORABLE MENTION
You’re dying to know what Gino Bulso’s first cousins look like. —MEGAN MINARICH
You Costanza all of Brad Schmitt’s restaurant recommendations. —DAVID ZEITLIN
You’ve heard rumors of people who are still waiting for their Uber at Geodis after attending The Night Messi Came to Town. —ANDY GASPARINI
You withheld donations to your kid’s school art show pending a clean audit of the PTO.
—JIM FLAUTT
You hear a beer company use the phrase, “If you drink, don’t drive,” and you automatically reply “Do the watermelon crawl.” —HILARY JONES
Opry Mills closing early due to potential flooding in May gave you the biggest jumpscare. —WANDO WEAVER
You can rhyme tornado and cicada. —JIMMY STRATTON
You finally swept the last of the dead cicadas off your patio but now it’s too hot to sit out there.
—JERRY O’CONNOR
You are a 13-year cicada who emerged to find that your cherry tree on First Avenue had disappeared, and that manifold other horrors had descended on your city. —TRENT HANNER
In your perfect world, cicadas will emerge annually and actual people will just show up every 13 years, for five weeks at a time.
—TRENT HANNER
The cicadas were so loud and obnoxious that you figure somebody on Music Row must have given them a record deal. —STEPHEN YEARGIN PRESENTED BY
You may just be a 13-year cicada, but doesn’t it seem rather soon to be replacing that football stadium? —TRENT HANNER
Now that the cicadas are gone, you actually kinda miss the little fuc–BTZZTZZTZTZTZZ!
—DAN BARRY
You thought the cicadas were more respectful than our usual tourists. —ALISSA LINDEMANN
You are the 13-year cicada who was sacrificed for the New Nashville foodie. —TRENT HANNER
The annual return of the General Assembly annoys you more than any cicada emergence.
—DAVID CURTIS
You spend so much time protesting at the state Capitol you can claim it as your legal residence. —CHRISTINE HICKS
You got more done on your lunch break than the state legislature did all year. —SARA HARVEY
Your state legislature voted to replace the YASNI judges with a group appointed by the governor and legislative leaders.
—LEONARD ASSANTE
Once the legislature determined that marriage was off the table, you demanded your first cousin refund you her half of the cost of your first date — to January 6th. —WILLIAM HALL
Your state representative’s wife and mistress serve on the church council together.
—KEITH HEIM
You wondered if Bart Durham got to see the eclipse before he died. —LESLIE HALES
You think someone needs to write a song called “Total Eclipse of the Bart” as an in memoriam to Bart Durham. —LESLIE HALES
You would like to declare April 9 as “Bart Durham Day.” —JAMIE YOST
You genuinely thought Bart Durham was going to outlive you. #ripking —FRANKIE ROPELEWSKI
HONORABLE MENTION
Your kid’s fourth-grade teacher isn’t allowed to carry their pistol in a rainbow holster. —KEITH HEIM
You’re bummed this is the last year you’ll see any jokes about Bart Durham. —STEPHEN YEARGIN
You think Belmont should offer a class on the Emo-to-Himbo pipeline. —ASHLEY HASKINS
Four-year streak of sneaking the TransPerfect Bowl past Bill Lee. —CHASE STEJSKAL
Codes made your neighbors get rid of their goats. —EMILEE WARNER
You truly believe Nashville is a place for everyone, including the immigrant family against whom you file regular codes complaints through hubNashville. —WILLIAM HALL
Your city would like you to use hubNashville to report if there is any spot they missed where they can put a cashless parking meter.
—CLIFTON KAISER
You’re no longer interested in friends who have boats, but more interested in friends who have storm shelters. —LESLIE HALES
You can’t understand why Gavin Newsom isn’t listed as a choice for governor. —TOM STILL
Your church can trace its historical lineage back through at least three church splits. —DAVE WEST
None of the 23 boutiques that opened in your neighborhood carry your size. —EMILY FREITAG
You file an ethics complaint against your councilmember because you lost a real estate commission. —MARK NAIFEH
After reviewing demographic data from the most recent U.S. Census, you think it’s probably time we call The Nations something else. —CHARLIE HARRIS
Your private West Nashville high school recently
THE EARNEST ONES
You have an outdoor TV on your patio but still walk down to Elmington Park for outdoor movies. —JANIS PARROTT
Every time they tear down a building a little piece of your heart goes missing. —ART WEBB
You can name three of the specialty shakes at Bobbie’s Dairy Dip.—JOSH MALKOFSKY-BERGER
You and your husband look forward to workshopping your YASNIs together each year. (Yeah, yeah, we know that’s cute. But we really do!) —MEGAN MINARICH
You’re upset to see Katy’s Hallmark Shop move out of Belle Meade Plaza.
—STEPHEN COOK
You still miss Sub Stop. —JAIME RIECKHOFF
You actually kind of miss the apple cinnamon pizza from Mr. Gatti’s dessert pizza buffet. —SARAH DENSON
You bought frozen Goo-Goos at Swim ’n’ Sun and tried to eat them before they melted while you sat on the hot deck overlooking the swimming lanes during rest period. —ESTHER GULLI
You read The New York Times for Margaret Renkl and Emily Cochrane’s Nashville stories. —TRENT HANNER
You remember mailing in your YASNI picks because you weren’t too sure about this newfangled internet thing. —CLETIS CARR
You just want to ride the Wabash Cannonball one. More. Time. —JAMIE YOST
celebrated a 50th anniversary, and you think it’s a weird coincidence that so many other private schools celebrated this same milestone. —CHARLIE HARRIS
You’ll put a roof over an out-of-town billionaire’s football team before you house your own citizens. —DANIEL RYAN
Major League Baseball heard you’re just one hole punch away from getting a free stadium. —STEPHEN YEARGIN
Your book club mixed up Love and Hot Chicken: A Delicious Southern Novel with Hot, Hot Chicken: A Nashville Story —ASHLEY HASKINS
You think all the hot chicken at the airport should come with a warning label. —PATRICK W.
Your airport has all your favorite local eateries but with shorter lines. —CLIFTON KAISER
Per audience request and the babysitter’s schedule, the My So-Called Band show has been moved up to 6:30 p.m. —MATTHEW REWINSKI
You hated to see Derrick Henry leave but you did love to watch him walk away. —JAMIE YOST
The judge in your case used to be your mayor, vice mayor and councilperson. —NICK LEONARDO
Your chief contribution to local culture is trolling it here. —JESSE NEWKIRK
You are on your knees digging beer cans out of the bushes at the Airbnb next door while the guests listen to a record you played on.
—MATT GLASSMEYER
You thought the Music City Grand Prix was a little slow compared to the races you usually watch at the Briley Parkway Friday Night
Dragstrip. —ANDY GASPARINI
You kept your mouth closed when you heard that SmileDirectClub ceased operations. —WANDO WEAVER
You think you’re in a time warp when someone tells you a new mall in Antioch is the best place to go shopping. —JERRY O’CONNOR Driving through 12South at night is the most stressful thing you’ve done since watching a Safdie Bros movie. —MARK NAIFEH
An Uber driver putting on their flashers and stopping in the middle of the road sends you into an instant rage but you refuse to honk because it is impolite. —MARK MILLER
You’ve discovered and cataloged a new bat species inside Demonbreun’s Cave. —MICHAEL BRASHIER
Your senators vote against appropriating money to Nashville then show up at the ribbon cutting to claim credit.
—DAVID DUHL
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You look at the skyline and contemplate opening a window-washing business.
—CURTIS HALL
You spent your child’s college tuition savings on day care wait-list deposits.
—PATRICK McINTYRE
There were more guitars than flight attendants on your last flight out of BNA.
—ALLISON DAMRATOSKI
You’ve wondered if buying a new Ferrari includes a test drive on the BNA tarmac.
—WANDO WEAVER
You find it hard to distinguish Lower Broadway on a Saturday night from BNA on a Sunday night. —ALLISON DAMRATOSKI
You weren’t surprised at all to learn that the Hawk Tuah Girl was on Lower Broadway. —STEPHEN YEARGIN
You tell your friend that no one goes to Lower Broadway anymore because it’s always too crowded. —JERRY O’CONNOR
You haven’t made it in the music industry yet, but you have decided what your signature cocktail will be. —NANCY JONES
The only thing you can recall about the 21st night of September was that it was still humid. —MARK NAIFEH
You’re already mourning the decrepit Belle Meade Kroger. —MARY LIZA HARTONG
Mayor Freddie beat you out on Bad Bunny tickets at the Belcourt silent auction —TERRY MARONEY
You look at your mayor and can’t help but think that somewhere, a barbershop quartet is missing their tenor.
—ALLISON EVERETT
You’ve taken a WeGo bus selfie. —LESLIE HALES
Talent night at your kid’s school only features the parents. —TRENT HANNER
Your power is out. —EMILEE WARNER
When you say you miss “Old Nashville,” you actually mean Nashville from 2014.
—KEVIN WALTERS
You work on Broadway but live in Lebanon.
—ROY BURKHEAD
You still watch out for snowball-throwing polar bears. —DANIEL SMITH
Your safe word is “Lauderdale.” —MADISON THORN
They 12South’d your Five Points, so you 86’d yourself from the area. —CHARLIE HARRIS
You must finally admit that “PieTown” lacks pies and you can’t find a single ho in “WedgHo.” —WILLIAM HALL
The only vacation you can afford in this economy is a day trip to the Buc-ee’s in Crossville. —KEITH HEIM
You wax nostalgic for the days of saving quarters for parking meters instead of worrying about scanning stuff online to keep from being towed. —LEON HELGUERA
Your favorite literary work about the city is “Where the Sidewalk Ends.” —DAVID ZEITLIN
1989: You think our Parthenon is better because the other one fell apart. —SUSAN FENTON
1990: Your mayor is married and engaged at the same time. —MARALEE SELF
1991: You say to the person behind the counter at the Hot Stop, “We really kicked y’all’s ass in that Desert Storm.” —WILLIE D. SWEET JR.
1992: You go to a Hank Williams Jr. concert at Starwood and pass out before Hank does.
—TED W. DAVIS III
1993: Your church congregation is referred to as “the studio audience.” —SHARON KASSERMAN
1994: You think that the H.O.V. lane is for people with AIDS. —PAUL ALLEN
1995: No winner
1996: You never meant to stay here this long.
—ROBERT JETTON
1997: You’ve checked your flower bed for Janet March.
—TERRY ROBERTSON
1998: You’re the only one who doesn’t know you’re gay. —DIANA HECHT
1999: You dig up your mom. —RICK HAGEY
2000: You want to vote Brad Schmitt off the island.
—CHAD TRIBBLE
2001: Your minister follows the Nine Commandments.
—KEN LASS
2002: Towns you’ve never heard of are going to be hit by a tornado at 6:51, 6:53 and 7:01 p.m.
—RICK HAGEY
2003: You returned a friendly Southern wave to Adam Dread as he veered across Franklin Pike.
—CINDY PARRISH
2004: You need a war to sell records.
—JOE SCUTELLA
2005: Your governor gives TennCare beneficiaries McDonald’s instead of health care coverage.
—KEN LASS
2006: You were a gay cowboy before being a gay cowboy was cool. —MICHAEL WILLIAMS
2007: You saw Kenny Chesney in a Kroger reading Out & About. —MICHAEL WILLIAMS
2009: Your local GOP makes the KKK look like the ACLU. —JONATHAN BELCHER
2010: Your city flooded and all you got was a lousy T-shirt. —DAVID ANTHONY
2011: Gay gay gay, gay gay; gay gay gay gay gay.
—DANA DELWORTH
2012: You think Bart Durham should direct The Real Housewives of Nashville.
—HOLLY MATTHEWS
2013: You think the TV show should have been called Mount Juliette. —BILL HENCH
2014: Your amp goes to 11, but not to Belle Meade.
—ZACK BENNETT
2015: You’re afraid Bob Mueller’s mustache will be torn down to build a high-rise apartment building. —ZACK BENNETT
2016: Your therapist doesn’t know you’re gay.
—RUSSELL RIES JR.
2017: In June, you were citing Rule No. 48.24-B that states a goal can be reviewed if an inadvertent whistle caused a stoppage in play. In January, you thought hockey was played with a ball.
—BRIAN BATES
2018: Nashville is canceled. Also, the TV show was not renewed. —CHARLIE HARRIS
2019: Your idea of “light rail” means doing just a little bit of coke. —KATIE WESOLEK
2020: Your idea of contact tracing is checking for hand stamps from Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ’N’ Roll Steakhouse. —MEGAN MINARICH
2021: You think Derrick Henry offseason workout vids should be flagged as erotica. —CHASE STEJSKAL
2022: You’ve been on the darkweb trying to solicit trash pickup. —LOGAN ELLIOTT
2023: The state legislature already overturned this joke. —JJ WRIGHT
You’ve memorized all 37 restaurant names that Roma Pizza uses on delivery apps.
—JESSE CASE
Downtown is just one giant crane game where you never win a prize. —DARRELL IDA ▼ PRESENTED BY
2008: Your DUI arrest gets a five-star rating on YouTube. —ROY MOORE
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SILENT MOVIE CLASSICS: THE RED BALLOON AND THE CAMERAMAN
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THURSDAY, JULY 25 - JULY 28
PERFORMANCE
[HIGH FLYING]
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: SONGBLAZERS
Cirque du Soleil is ready to flip the normal Nashville night out on its head. The renowned troupe of circus performers is known around the world for its flipping, jumping, towering, juggling and flying acts set to music to tell a story, and there’s no better story to tell in Music City than that of music itself. The neon lights of the set will make you feel as though you’re on Lower Broadway, peeking into the window of a honky-tonk playing classic sing-along country hits. You’ll even see some line-dancing, although even that gets taken up a notch when it’s being performed by world-renowned acrobats. The awe and wonder of a circus is the reason to go, but if you’re a fan of the country music that Nashville is so intertwined with, you’ll appreciate the tribute to both the legends and modern-day artists who make the genre what it is. NICOLLE S. PRAINO
THROUGH JULY 28 AT TPAC
505 DEADERICK ST.
THURSDAY / 7.25
[NEO-SOUTHERN ROCK]
MUSIC
THE FBR
There’s something comforting and familiar about the music of The FBR, which is grounded in blues-rock with a little gospel and boogiewoogie thrown in. Fifty years ago, the group would have been Southern rockers, and to a large degree, that still fits. Co-founders Malarie McConaha and Tim Hunter first met a decade ago at Puckett’s Grocery in Leiper’s Fork. “When Tim and I met at Puckett’s back in 2014, I was obsessed with Leonard Cohen,” lead singer and guitarist McConaha tells the Scene. Cohen’s song “Famous Blue Raincoat” especially resonated with her, so when she and rhythm guitarist Hunter started performing music together as a duo, they originally called themselves Famous Blue Raincoat before shortening it to The FBR. While the group has now grown to a sextet that includes guitarist Evan Opitz, keyboardist Brandon Mordecai, bassist C.J. Singer and former Goo Goo Dolls drummer Mike Malinin, it is McConaha’s lead vocals and arranging and Hunter’s harmony vocals and songwriting
that make the group special. McConaha has a powerful, soulful and enchanting voice that can go from a whisper to a roar, while the realism in Hunter’s songs lessens life’s pain and inspires hope. The FBR will make their first Nashville appearance in 2024 at The Basement Thursday night and mostly will be performing material from their impressive debut album Ghost
DARYL SANDERS
7 P.M. AT THE BASEMENT
1604 EIGHTH AVE. S.
FILM [A WHOLE LOTTA THINGS TO SING ABOUT] CHARLEY PRIDE: I’M JUST ME
Long before Darius Rucker or Kane Brown topped charts, Charley Pride broke barriers and made history with hits like “Just Between You and Me” and “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’.” The Franklin Theatre will honor his legacy with a screening of the musical documentary Charley Pride: I’m Just Me. The film reflects on Pride’s incredible journey, as he rose from his humble roots as a sharecropper’s son in Mississippi to become a groundbreaking musical superstar. Pride’s story is not just about his success but also his monumental impact on Black musicians in the country music genre, and how he inspired
generations of artists like Shaboozey and Reyna Roberts. Narrated by the legendary Tanya Tucker, the documentary includes interviews with country music icons such as Dolly Parton, Garth Brooks and Marty Stuart, highlighting Pride’s lasting influence on the genre and Nashville’s musical community. Following the screening, attendees can engage in a Q&A session with filmmaker Barbara Hall and New York Times bestselling author Alice Randall, offering deeper insights into how Charley Pride’s legacy continues to inspire the contemporary Black country music scene. JAYME FOLTZ
7 P.M. AT THE FRANKLIN THEATRE
419 MAIN ST., FRANKLIN
FRIDAY / 7.26
MUSIC
[AUGUST PRESENCE] ROBINAUGUST
Former Queens of Noise founder and coleader RobinAugust celebrates the release of “Kiss Where It Hurts,” the first single from her forthcoming sophomore album, with a show Friday night at The ’58, the new room at Eastside Bowl. “It’s a party for my single release and kind of a sneak peek into the next era of my career,” the former teen riot grrrl says. “I’ll be showcasing a lot of material from my next album.” The single, which hits streaming services Friday, was co-written by RobinAugust and Colleen Rhatigan and builds on romantic themes she explored on her stunning 2022 poprock debut Avocado Head. But “Kiss Where It Hurts,” which was co-produced and engineered by Elijah Wells, is a more mature recording both musically and lyrically and exemplifies RobinAugust’s continued growth as a singer, songwriter and recording artist. The single’s arrangement begins sparsely with just her voice and an acoustic guitar, then slowly builds to a dramatic crescendo awash in distortiondrenched power chords. Friday at The ’58, RobinAugust and her band — guitarist Wells, guitarist Jacob Shneiderman, keyboardist Cooper Eltringham, bassist Sam Johnstone and drummer Grifin DiNardo — will be joined on a few numbers by Max Rees on trumpet and Kolbe Rees on saxophone. Indie rockers Paperview and Kyra Cannon also are on the bill. DARYL SANDERS
8 P.M. AT EASTSIDE BOWL
1508 GALLATIN PIKE N., MADISON
[SING OUT]
MUSIC
LISA LOEB
Lisa Loeb’s mega hit song “Stay (I Missed You)” is one of the top five karaoke choices among my fellow 40-somethings. The notes are not easy to hit, but we all know every single word after a lifetime of singing it alone in our cars. And if Loeb were to magically walk into the karaoke bar, there would be a collective shriek. She is the ultimate girl crush. Her 1994 music video, featured in heavy rotation on MTV, was directed by a young Ethan Hawke for the Reality Bites soundtrack and served as a launchpad for her career, babydoll dresses and cat-eye glasses. Her 1995 album Tails was a mainstay in every
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Case Logic CD wallet owned by Girl Power Nation. At 56, she’s a soccer mom in L.A. with six albums — two of which were certified gold — a handful of children’s books, a designer eyewear collection and a show on Sirius XM’s ’90s on 9 channel. By ’90s standards, she’d be considered a sellout. In 2024, she’s brilliant. TOBY ROSE
7:30 AT CITY WINERY
609 LAFAYETTE ST.
MUSIC
[WHEN BROADWAY COMES TO TOWN] LEVI KREIS
Levi Kreis first dazzled audiences back in 2010 with his Tony Award-winning performance as Jerry Lee Lewis in Million Dollar Quartet. More recently, he has appeared in the Broadway revival of Violet (2014) and Del Shores’ film A Very Sordid Wedding (2017) and taken on the coveted role of Hermes in the national tour of Hadestown (2021). But this dynamic performer — who originally hails from Oliver Springs in East Tennessee — also has enjoyed great success as a singer-songwriter, delivering a distinctly soulful Southern sound and rousing piano style. Like any true Southerner, Kreis is also a born storyteller. So I would imagine he’ll be serving up some good ones about his unlikely journey from small-town musical prodigy to performer under the bright lights of Broadway. The Franklin Theatre welcomes this multifaceted artist for an evening that “infuses Broadway classics with country, jazz, rockabilly and gospel for a musical perspective that is completely original.” AMY STUMPFL
8 P.M. AT THE FRANKLIN THEATRE
419 MAIN ST., FRANKLIN
FILM
[GENIUS IN THE EYES OF THE MEDIOCRE] AMADEUS
The 57th Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Amadeus, heads to the Belcourt this weekend with a new 4K restoration. Miloš Forman’s biopic of classical era maestro Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), told through the eyes of his rival Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham, who won the Oscar for best actor in this performance), is based on Alexander Pushkin’s 1830 play Mozart and Salieri The film depicts the jealousy of Salieri, a man
who dedicates himself to music and religion only to be surpassed by what he perceives to be a bumbling and vulgar fool (who also happens to be a master at writing music). But this intense envy means Salieri is perhaps the only one who truly understands the young Mozart. While it may be a story that doesn’t click with music historians — for example, Salieri is portrayed in the film as celibate but in reality had a wife, Therese Helferstorfer — those who can look past the historical inaccuracies are treated to a powerhouse of a film that depicts an internal struggle of not being good enough despite devoting your entire life to what you love.
KEN ARNOLD
JULY 26-30 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.
MUSIC
[CALL HIM WHAT YOU LIKE] CHARLEY CROCKETT
Some know him as the narrator of downon-your-luck country tune “Welcome to Hard Times.” Others may recognize him as being “The Man From Waco,” a nickname nodding to his 2022 album. Lately, he’s known in part as the “$10 Cowboy,” a nod to this year’s standout LP. No matter what nickname he uses, there’s no denying Charley Crockett tours today as one of the must-see singers in country music. Known for observant songwriting that can hit pretty close to home some days and a crooning, old-school delivery, Crockett plays two nights this weekend inside the Mother Church. The Texas native returns to Nashville in support of $10 Cowboy, the aforementioned full-length that adds to his fast-growing catalog of twangy earworms. Saddle up and sing along. Alabama native Kashus Culpepper opens Friday night; La Honda Records artist and fellow Texas troubadour Vincent Neil Emerson kicks off Saturday’s show. MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER
JULY 26-27 AT THE RYMAN
116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.
[WOLF GANG]
FILM
THE WOLF MAN & THE COMPANY OF WOLVES
This weekend, Full Moon Cineplex lives up to its name with a double feature for all those fans
of lycanthrope cinema. After going way back to the 1930s a couple weeks ago with Bride of Frankenstein, Full Moon once again dips into Universal’s monster era with The Wolf Man By today’s standards, this iconic 1941 chiller — starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the poor sumbitch who gets his hairy howl on after getting bitten by a werewolf — may seem more cheesy than scary. (Blumhouse will drop a certain-to-bebloody reboot next year.) But it still paved the way for dozens and dozens of werewolf flicks, including The Company of Wolves, which will follow Wolf. Co-writer/director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) gets into gothic mode for this horny-but-horrific 1984 retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. If you ever wanted to see that innocent girl get all hot and bothered over the Big Bad Wolf, then you should get your pervy ass over to Full Moon. Dinner-and-show tickets are also available at fullmooncineplex.com.
CRAIG D. LINDSEY
THE WOLF MAN 6 P.M., THE COMPANY OF WOLVES 9 P.M. AT FULL MOON CINEPLEX
3455 LEBANON PIKE
MUSIC [SAY AHH]
MOUTHHOLE FEST(ER)
Festering isn’t always a bad thing — at least not when you’re talking about DIY venue Mouthhole’s annual Fest(er) concert series. What’s not to love about an eclectic array of artists gathering in an undisclosed basement for a couple nights of performances and shenanigans? This year marks the 10th annual Fest(er), so there’s sure to be an extra celebratory atmosphere. You never know who you’re going to encounter at the Mouthhole or what performance they may have planned, but you can count on a welcoming crowd of kind weirdos connecting over a mutual love for music. Expect sets from Mouthhole regulars like avant rockers The Chewers, electronic act Chop Chop Chang and dreamy punk rock outfit Heinous Orca. The lineup also features Ziona Riley, The Far Fetchers, Apocalyptic Pimple, Horcerer, Earwig Deluxe, Caroline Red and more. All ages are welcome. For those wanting to attend, DM the Mouthhole’s Instagram account @themouthhole for the address, or ask a punk. KELSEY BEYELER
JULY 26-27 AT MOUTHHOLE
SATURDAY / 7.27
MUSIC
[I ONLY WANNA BE WITH HOOTIE] HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH
Ready to feel old? It’s been 30 years — that’s right, three freaking decades — since debut Hootie and the Blowfish album Cracked Rear Window stormed the sonic zeitgeist with inescapable hits “Only Wanna Be With You,” “Hold My Hand,” “Let Her Cry” and more. The album became synonymous with 1990s mainstream rock, selling millions of copies and stirring not-so-sober sing-alongs in college towns coast to coast. And after three decades (with a few hiatus years in between), Hootie and the Blowfish are bringing Cracked Rear
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Window and the rest of the band’s hits — plus a few solo songs from country-singing frontman Darius Rucker, because, “Wagon Wheel” — to Bridgestone Arena for a ’90s radio-rock revival. Showgoers can likely expect a cover or two at the gig as well. The band’s latest studio release is a take on 1960s protest favorite “For What It’s Worth,” which dropped earlier this year. Georgia-born Collective Soul, known for staple ’90s songs “Shine,” “December” and more, plays main support; “I’ll Be” singer-songwriter Edwin McCain opens the show. MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER
7 P.M. AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA
501 BROADWAY
ART [ICON IN THE GULCH]
REMEMBERING JIMI HENDRIX
Ever since the Scene moved offices last week, one of the few cool things remaining in the Gulch is a monumental Jimi Hendrix mural on the side of the W Hotel. Out of the many bits of musical history housed in Nashville, the story of how Hendrix cut his teeth playing shows regularly in town is one of the most interesting, and watching Nashville tourists learn about that in real time is always a treat. Now there’s an entire exhibition dedicated to Jimi’s time in Nashville. Remembering Jimi Hendrix: From Historic Jefferson Street to the World Stage opens July 27 at the similarly historic Jefferson Street Sound Museum. The museum’s director, Lorenzo
Washington, curated the show of one-of-a-kind photographs and vintage posters, and he’ll be joined by historian David Pearcy to discuss everything from Jimi’s youth and time in the military to his iconic Woodstock performance and indelible legacy. “Jimi Hendrix’s impact transcends borders and genres,” Washington says in the museum’s press release. “But here in Nashville, his influence holds a particularly special significance. … This exhibit is a chance to celebrate his legacy and the electrifying energy he brought to Nashville’s musical history.”
LAURA HUTSON HUNTER
OPENING 11 A.M. AT JEFFERSON STREET SOUND MUSEUM
2004 JEFFERSON ST.
SUNDAY / 7.28
BOOKS [ALL ABOUT YVIE]
YVIE ODDLY: ALL ABOUT YVIE: INTO THE ODDITY
The laugh that launched a career. At least that’s what I remember of Yvie Oddly’s run to becoming the Season 11 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race. When she showed up in the famous workroom back in 2019, she was loud, weird and a little bit spooky — a triple threat in the drag universe. The first time she threw her head back, opened her mouth wide and let rip that booming, distinct laugh, I was hooked. In
2022 she came back to compete on Season 7 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, and she’s been touring and doing all kinds of things since then — including writing a memoir! If you get excited when Drag Race winners come to town but you prefer seeing them prior to 11 p.m., boy, do I have the event for you. Yvie Oddly will be doing a meet-and-greet and book signing with her co-author, Michael Bach. Tickets are required, so make sure to snag one from Novelette’s event page. KIM BALDWIN 6:30 P.M. AT NOVELETTE BOOKSELLERS 1101 CHAPEL AVE.
[FOR-EV-ER]
FILM
SANDLOT-A-PALOOZA
The team behind the Play Forever Project believes all young athletes deserve a chance to take part in organized sports. Their mission is to provide communities with safe, affordable and inclusive youth sports opportunities. To further advocate for youth athletics in Nashville, Play Forever has paired with Jackalope Brewing to present Sandlot-A-Palooza, a full day of fun activities topped off by a free screening of the classic summertime flick The Sandlot. Food vendors, carnival games and caricature artists will all be on hand for family-friendly fun until 6 p.m., prior to showtime at 8 p.m. Attendees who adore The Sandlot and wish to contribute a bit more to the cause are encouraged to purchase VIP tickets. Packages include a private meetand-greet with original Sandlot cast members, autographed items, reserved seating for the film and more. Bonus points to those who dress up — blue jeans and Converse All Stars are a must.
JASON VERSTEGEN
3 P.M. AT JACKALOPE BREWING
429 HOUSTON ST.
MUSIC
[A DOOZY OF A DOUBLE FEATURE] THE CAMERAMAN & ‘THE RED BALLOON’ FEAT. LIVE SCORE
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to catch a film accompanied by the live score at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, you know what a thrilling experience it can be. The music takes on such a different feel and almost becomes a character in its own right when performed live by master musicians. That will certainly be the case with this weekend’s presentation of Silent Movie Classics. Renowned organist Peter Krasinski will be on hand at the Schermerhorn Sunday afternoon, improvising grand, imaginative soundscapes for a marvelous double feature including the 1928 Buster Keaton classic The Cameraman along with the fanciful 1956 French short film “The Red Balloon.” (The latter, though not technicaly a silent film, is largely dialogue-free.) Krasinski really is something of a legend — a brilliant organist, a masterful conductor and music educator and a consummate showman. With a little help from the incredible Martin Foundation Concert Organ, he’s sure to bring these movies to life in breathtaking fashion. AMY STUMPFL
2 P.M. AT
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TUESDAY / 7.30
MUSIC [NEW ROMANTICISTS]
HANA VU
Hana Vu is a Gen Z indie rocker who writes about the only thing worse than teen angst: early20s angst. On her sophomore LP Romanticism, Vu sounds confident and unworried about others’ judgments but at the same time very worried about figuring out what the hell she is going to do with her life. In the 18th century, the Romanticists were a school of artists and writers known for their fascination with the sublime — a school of expression that welcomed those who took themselves and their feelings seriously. Having a surplus of intense feelings was cool! Vu knows this as well as they did then. She doesn’t hold back in her writing or in the massive, guitar-driven wall of sound she builds around her record. The single “Hammer” stirs memories of that moment when you looked into the bathroom mirror at a sticky, humid and out-of-hand house party and wondered how you got to be such a flailing 20-something-year-old mess. Listening to Vu on the other side of my mid-20s, I feel comforted knowing that those currently going through the horror of figuring out their emotional lives for the first time have such a talented artist to soundtrack these years. Romanticism is untethered and real, just like the raw feelings of coming into your own between adolescence and adulthood, a time when all your emotions feel like supreme truths. Atlanta’s Babebee opens at the Cannery Row show. JACQUELINE ZEISLOFT
7 P.M. AT ROW ONE STAGE
1 CANNERY ROW
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MUSIC
HELLO MARY
Little things like an improved bass sound and chord changes that stick to the ribs make Brooklyn rock trio Hello Mary’s 2023 self-titled debut full-length an advance over the band’s 2018 EP Ginger. Guitarist and singer Helena Straight provides the splayed chords and allusions to ’90s bands like Luna and Pavement, while drummer Stella Wave locks in the music with patterns that accentuate the band’s offkilter groove. Producer Bryce Goggin smooths out the band’s style just enough on Hello Mary, and Mikaela Oppenheimer’s elegant bass parts sound great. The trio plays in a subtly mathrocky style — Hello Mary uses time-honored tricks like shifting from 3/4 to 6/8 time, and the record feels like an homage to the era of Silkworm, Jeff Buckley and Luna. Although it was released in March 2023, Hello Mary contained music that had been written and recorded a few years prior to the release date. The band has been writing new material since then, which makes Hello Mary a document of the evolution of a band that sounds like it has the potential to keep growing. Hello Mary is addictive — start with the gloriously fuzzed-out “Looking Right into the Sun,” which sports a guitar hook you won’t forget. EDD HURT
WEDNESDAY / 7.31
[HAVE YOUR ID READY]
BOOKS
LIZ RIGGS: LO FI
Nashville’s collection of music scenes has played significant roles in many people’s lives — and not just those of musicians. East Nashville-residing author Liz Riggs holds an MFA from New York University and has written for The Atlantic and Bon Appétit among other publications. She went to tons of shows around town circa 2010 and 2011, a time when famous indie musicians began visiting our fair city more frequently and when a groundswell in local music was leading to more Nashville musicians becoming known far and wide. It won’t come as a surprise that her debut novel draws extensive inspiration from this formative period. Lo Fi blends mystery and romance. The story follows Alison Hunter, better known as Al, who works the door at a club called The Venue. Several kinds of personal turmoil — including the return of her ex amid a devastating storm and her preoccupation with the disappearance of a musician — frame Al’s questions about her creative ambitions. While the drama swirls, Al is getting at the question underneath “What do you want to do with your life?” — namely, “How do you know what you want to do with your life?” Riggs will join Lindsay Lynch for a reading, signing and discussion at Parnassus Books. The event is free, but registration is required.
STEPHEN TRAGESER
6:30 P.M. AT PARNASSUS BOOKS
3900 HILLSBORO PIKE
[VERSUS PREDATOR]
FILM
QUEER QLASSICS: HARD CANDY
Before he made the vampire flicks 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, director David Slade hit the scene with his soul-sucking debut 2005 film Hard Candy, which is this week’s Queer Qlassics selection (shown in glorious 35 mm!) at the Belcourt. The film features Elliot Page as a teenager who turns the tables on a sexual predator (Patrick Wilson) after flirting with him online. It’s a queasy film, mostly because it dares you to have sympathy for a gotdamn pedophile, especially when Page’s adolescent avenger ties ol’ boy up and torments him by pulling out a scalpel and … let’s just say if you own a pair of testicles, this shit is hard to watch. Jenn Adams, writer and co-host of The Lady Killers: A Feminine Rage Podcast, and Dr. Aimi Hamraie, associate professor of medicine, health and society and American studies at Vanderbilt University, will be there for a postscreening discussion — and additional handholding. CRAIG D. LINDSEY
8 P.M. AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 10AM-2PM
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THE COSECHA COMMUNITY MARKET is easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. Open every other Wednesday from late May to early September, it’s tucked away in front of the Woodbine United Methodist Church — one of the few properties on Nolensville Pike that has a grassy front lawn. Despite the space’s proximity to the busy road, the noise of the passing cars fades away behind the vendors’ tents.
While Cosecha’s lineup may change a bit each week, market-goers will likely find a combination of new and familiar organizations. Cosecha vendors’ wares have included the beautifully decorated sweet treats of Panecito KaLe, botanical bath and body products from Soul Seed, produce from The Nashville Food Project, directly sourced Guatemalan coffee from Roast and Brews, food from Las Fajitas and more.
Other organizations like pet foster group Pawster, restorative justice nonprofit the Raphah Institute and art-centric waste-diversion nonprofit Turnip Green Creative Reuse have also set up to connect with attendees about their services and resources. Live music, games and yoga are common at the market, along with bike repair assistance from organization Bike Fun, and artwork from Rubén Torres. On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Scene visited during the Dog Days of Cosecha — an event where a handful of adorable pups played in a fenced-in area while “pupsicles” made from frozen chicken stock were distributed.
The market is a part of the larger nonprofit Cosecha Community Development, which was created by Woodbine United Methodist Church pastor Carlos Uroza to serve the South Nashville community. The area has a diverse array of residents, including many immigrants, but it’s also facing significant gentrification that presents challenges for those who live there. Uroza points to insufficient access to fresh produce as another
COSECHA COMMUNITY MARKET
Pastor Carlos Uroza is focused on facilitating community spaces in the Woodbine neighborhood
BY KELSEY BEYELER
issue for the community.
When Uroza started Cosecha with co-founder Courtney Hicks (who no longer works with the organization), he didn’t have a set goal in mind. They instead spent the first year of Cosecha’s existence listening to the community, building relationships and seeing what issues were most pressing. Uroza recognizes that mistrust of churches can sometimes begin when they start social programs that communities don’t necessarily want or need.
Despite Cosecha’s connection to Woodbine United, it’s a secular organization, and its goal is not to evangelize but rather to facilitate community connection and empowerment. While listening to residents, Uroza heard concerns about local schools needing more support, gentrification-induced displacement and economic struggles. Cosecha initially planned to facilitate afterschool programs including language support, but the 2020 tornado and the onset of COVID-19 thwarted those efforts. Cosecha pivoted, evolving into what it is today.
While Uroza knows it may be a “wild dream,” he wants to use Cosecha to connect neighborhood residents regardless of whether they’re struggling to keep up with rent or just purchased a million-dollar home. The farmers market is one place for that, but it’s not the sole focus of Cosecha’s work. The organization also helps manage gardens at John B. Whitsitt Elementary School, Wright Middle School and Woodbine Park so locals can learn about and access fresh produce. It also collaborates with Voces de Nashville to facilitate Spanish lessons. Cosecha, Spanish for “harvest,” is the perfect name for the nonprofit.
“As long as we’re able to bring people together, we’re fulfilling our mission,” Uroza tells the Scene ▼
CARLOS UROZA
RUBÉN TORRES
SAZERAC AT LE LOUP
Ford Fry’s Germantown establishment does a classic cocktail the classic way
BY D. PATRICK RODGERS
LIKE MOST CLASSIC cocktails, the Sazerac comes with its own lore. Created in New Orleans and named after Sazerac de Forge et Fils — the Cognac first used to make it — the drink, some argue, was the very first American cocktail. That may or may not be true. But what’s known is that the Sazerac’s principal ingredients largely haven’t changed since barkeeps first started slinging it at some point in the 19th century.
Local fine-dining and fine-drinking establishment Le Loup keeps it traditional: Cognac, rye whiskey, bitters, demerara (a natural brown sugar), absinthe and lemon essence, served in a rocks glass. Along with elevated seafood spot The Optimist and restaurant/venue Star Rover Sound, Le Loup is part of famed Southern chef and restaurateur
Ford Fry’s Germantown-based trio of outposts. The space itself is beautifully appointed, and the staff is knowledgeable and attentive. Le Loup has an extensive menu of inventive cocktails, including a list of “Tributes” —
specialty drinks riffing on cocktails from other noted establishments like The Velvet Hour in Chicago (a Campari concoction called Eeyore’s Requiem) and The Patterson House right here in Nashville (a bourbon drink called Clapless Bell).
But if you order something off the “Classics” menu, Sazerac or otherwise, you’ll get exactly what you’re looking for.
Just a bit more aromatic than other boozy whiskey cocktails like Old Fashioneds or Manhattans, Le Loup’s Sazerac, chilled and served up, works as either a pre-dinner tipple or a nightcap. Or hell, a drink to accompany your dinner. Speaking of which, Le Loup’s food menu isn’t quite as extensive as its drink menu, but it’s certainly just as impressive. On a recent visit, my partner and I were wowed by Le Loup’s citrusy hamachi crudo, smoked fish dip, frites (served with a delicious, gooey raclette) and the filling Le Smash Burger — just enough food to cue us up for a post-meal cocktail. ▼
TO LOSE MY MIND AND FIND MY SOUL
Dana Oldfather’s mutable landscapes reveal an artist in full control
BY CAT ACREE
IF YOU’VE BEEN following Dana Oldfather over the past few years, you’ve likely noticed that her abstract art has begun to recede, with figures and landscapes beginning to emerge. Back in 2017, she was using photographs of her family as the “skeletons” of her highly gestural abstract pieces. She would paint simple domestic scenes — usually based on images of folks working on a car or washing dishes — and then layer sumptuous color until the people underneath were mostly or completely obscured. Titles like “Foot Bridge” helped make their hidden subjects apparent. You could just make out an outline of a body amid the sinews of paint.
Lately, Oldfather has been painting landscapes. Last year she had an exhibition at Abattoir Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, titled Violet Hour — it was a collection of paintings and drawings that drew an easy comparison to 20th-century painter Charles Burchfield’s eclectic, animated landscapes rendered in squiggly watercolor and crayon. Many of Oldfather’s vistas in Violet Hour were in that same sketchy style, and they felt summery and muggy, if a little stagnant in the heat.
This month, Oldfather presents Lavender Mile, on view at Red Arrow until July 27, and it’s clear she’s gone deeper into the woods. It’s her third solo exhibition with the gallery, and the 10 paintings, all oil on linen, are primarily land-
scapes inspired by photographs taken by the artist. But these aren’t places you’ve ever been.
“I don’t care about reproducing something, the way it looks like,” Oldfather says, speaking with the Scene the morning before the exhibition’s opening. “I have no interest in that whatsoever. I want to say something about living through the landscape.”
In these scenes, diurnal and seasonal changes have compressed, and the light often transforms fantastically in a single painting. If you’ve ever experienced a total solar eclipse, you know how impossible it would be to capture that otherworldly shift, but “Two Suns” finds a way to re-create this experience with binary suns hovering over an unreal forest grove. “When you try to paint outside, light is constantly changing,” she says. “The shadows are changing colors. To make sense of it, I have to take photos and study it later.”
This atemporality is also why the act of looking at each scene feels just as important as the scene itself. We find ourselves looking up at the treetops, down at a meadow and gazing along pathways. The golden sunny orb of “Incubation” and the wintry solar corona of “Cold Clearing” could be two moments of looking up at the sky, but you may find yourself wondering whether you’re actually seeing two shimmering reflections on a pond.
Such moments of vertigo could be perceived as a little of the old anxiety we’re used to seeing in Oldfather’s work. Her abstract paintings were all squared up, positioned dead-on, with uneasy scribbles juddering across the depth of field. But Lavender Mile doesn’t have that manic quality; rather, these are as soft as the background paintings for a classic children’s story, like the landscapes by Tyrus Wong that inspired Walt Disney’s Bambi. If anything, Oldfather’s pieces contain the frisson of getting a little lost in the woods, especially as a kid. A bit of awe mixed with terror.
Narratively speaking, the forest is often a dangerous place, or at least a place where we must keep our wits about us. Certainly, some of Oldfather’s scenes are a little eerie, such as “Camouflage,” in which three strange figures play in a forest glen that is a different color than the rest of the woods around them. The sources of light are also mysterious: The sun (or suns) has an amoebic bleed, globular dandelions burst like a lens flare, and a glow emanates from somewhere off-scene to illuminate grasses underfoot. Even the shadows are unusual, a mix of purple and green that combines to make the titular bluish lavender. “It gives brightness to a shadow,” Oldfather says. “It’s not actually darkness, it’s light!”
It’s wonderful to see Oldfather willingly
venture into the surreal, a return to her earliest roots as a self-taught artist. Her pine trees are bulbous, their fronds flat, soft and dewy — more like petals than clusters of needles. Snow floats like celestial bodies under a tree’s branches, and sprigs of wild carrot appear carved out of space as if with the sharp end of a stick. The fluidity of these details is in part due to the poppy oil in her paint, which causes the paint to dry very slowly. She’s also done a red underpainting in the style of the Dutch masters, which allows a “weird vibrating hum thing” to come through.
Lavender Mile finds the artist at the height of her talent, and by using the outside world to explore her interior, she has created a space that is quite lovely.
“I’m getting the miles in,” Oldfather says. “I’m moving across the earth, making myself knowledgeable of how vast and beautiful and bright the world is.” ▼
Lavender Mile Through July 27 at Red Arrow, 919 Gallatin Ave.
HEALING THE MOTHER WOUND
Sarai Johnson’s debut novel is a moving exploration of womanhood and motherhood
BY TONYA ABARI
SARAI JOHNSON’S DEBUT novel, Grown Women, is an eloquent story of multiple generations of Black women navigating their lives against a nonlinear backdrop of American motherhood.
The novel spans the 1940s through the mid2000s, and the story is driven through the narratives of great-grandmother Evelyn and her three-generation lineage of daughters: Charlotte, Corinna and Camille. For much of the novel, Evelyn is present only through memories. Charlotte’s mothering of Corinna and Corinna’s mothering of Camille take center stage.
However, in an effort to get additional support in raising Camille, Corinna finds a decades-old stash of handwritten letters from her estranged grandmother Evelyn, which elicits a reconnection between the four generations of women. Although readers might deduce that Evelyn is the missing piece of the family puzzle, it’s actually Camille who is central to the deep generational healing needed to move this family forward.
The settings for the novel mirror the places author Sarai Johnson has called home. Readers partake in brief yet intimate snapshots of rural Tennessee, Nashville and the Washington, D.C., metro area. What makes these settings stand out is Johnson’s authentic portraits of the Black lives that are often overlooked in accounts of cities like Nashville. In the fictional rural town of Chilly Springs, where there isn’t much “upward mobility,” Johnson evokes small-town fixtures like the local diner that serves Southern staples such as “hush puppies and catfish fried hard.” Many of the town’s residents drive an hour north to Nashville to enjoy the splendors of the city. Images of popular landmarks like the Pancake Pantry, The Bluebird Cafe and the Parthenon, along with gospel music blasting from cars stretched along Bible Belt streets, enrich the depiction of Music City.
As the settings develop over time in Grown Women, they serve as a metaphor for the intentional development of the primary characters’ womanhood and motherhood. In fact, time plays an essential role as the novel shows how different generations of women evolve alongside, and oftentimes against, societal stereotypes.
Tensions arise through the numerous relationships that drive the subplot of healing. Evelyn is the catalyst — she never quite wanted the role of mother to begin with. Thrust into raising Charlotte, Evelyn wrestled with a desire to balance motherhood with pursuing her own professional endeavors. Their mother-daughter bond, or lack thereof, resulted in Charlotte leaving Evelyn’s home in Atlanta to focus on her own life as a young mother.
The way these women engage in romantic and platonic relationships carries just as much weight as their maternal bonds. Charlotte’s marriage to David shapes Corinna’s ideology about needing a partner, Isaac, even when he is not good for her. The reader also has a front-row seat to watching how friendships evolve. Charlotte grows apart from her friend Delia, who morphs into an entirely different (and entitled) person after finding out her football-playing son is the father of Corinna’s daughter, Camille. This is a microcosm of how money and greed can often lead to stress within families and relationships.
There’s a saying in diasporic spiritual communities: “You are the one your bloodline has been waiting for.” Camille, as a fourth-generation Southern woman, leans into this type of healing work by serving as the bridge to her family’s matrilineal reconciliation. When Camille leaves for the metropolis known as Chocolate City (Washington, D.C.), the reader wonders whether she can change trajectory and heal open wounds of the women in her family. However, while living with her great-grandmother in D.C., Camille discovers an important lesson:
Mama Evy, I read your last email, and I know you think I’m being childish and angry, but I feel like I owe it to you, Mama, and Granmama, to figure out who I want to be. Y’all didn’t really get a chance to do that. I just want to take my chance.
Camille carries the weight of generations
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past, and yet has deep responsibility to carve a new life for herself that includes empathy, hope and unapologetically living out her dreams. By the end of the book, and in the wake of great-grandmother Evelyn’s passing, readers see all the women working together (in their own way) to create a future of familial bonds through empathy and love.
Joining a recent array of books that center Black womanhood, Grown Women at its core is as much a tale of unraveling the mother wound as it is of discovering personal freedom. The book refreshingly decenters any gazes other than those of Black women, which are sometimes overlooked by mainstream media. It’s important for readers of any background to see the humanity in these women’s everyday lives.
To read an uncut version of this review — and more local book coverage — please visit Chapter16.org, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee. ▼
Grown Women By Sarai Johnson Harper 400 pages, $30
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MUSIC
IT’S BEEN ALMOST a year since Be Your Own Pet released Mommy, their first album since 2008. The influential Music City garage-punk outfit reunited in 2022 at the behest of fellow Nashvillian Jack White, who handpicked the band to open a few shows on his Supply Chain Issues Tour. BYOP eventually signed to White’s label Third Man Records, leading to their triumphant return on wax But more than 20 years after the band first formed at Nashville School of the Arts, the members — singer Jemina Pearl, guitarist Jonas Stein, bassist Nathan Vasquez and drummer John Eatherly — all have even more going on. We caught up with multihyphenate Stein, whose other projects include now-defunct band Turbo Fruits and much-loved dance party Sparkle City Disco, in advance of BYOP’s show Saturday at Eastside Bowl. Our interview has been edited for length and clarity.
BYOP has been back for several years now, and it’s been almost a full year since Mommy came out. Does it feel like you’re back in a groove with the group? Yeah, man. It’s been a nice little treat. We’re in as much of a groove as we can be given the circumstances — and the circumstances are that we spend a lot of time apart and we all have other lives going on. It feels very fun and exciting, and we’ve been very grateful for getting to experience all this again.
All of you have a lot of projects going on outside of the band. How do you balance that with touring and recording as a group? We have to be flexible with each other, and we have to be sensitive to the fact that we all have other things going on. We all have our own other artistic projects, and Jemina has a full-on family; John lives up in New York. There’s quite a few moving pieces that we have to navigate, but it’s been manageable. I think having realistic expectations of how much time we can put into it is something good to be considerate of. Given all those circumstances, we’ve been having a lot of fun, and working with each other has been a lot smoother than it was when we were kids because we’ve all grown a lot and matured a lot. So it’s a lot easier to work together now.
Nashville is now a lot better known for rock and other non-country genres than it was when BYOP debuted. What does it feel like to be part of establishing Nashville’s modern rock legacy? It feels pretty cool. Sometimes I forget how instrumental our band may have been in kind of helping mold the musical influence that Nashville has. Growing up around country music and being in Nashville, I think — whether it was subconscious or not — we all gravitated toward alternative punk and rock music as kids.
Sometimes I get reminded by people, “Oh, I guess we had some influence on shaping what Nashville has become outside of the country
PET THEORIES
Catching up with Be Your Own Pet’s Jonas Stein ahead of the reunited punk heroes’ stop at Eastside Bowl
BY LOGAN BUTTS
music world.” It’s fun to take some of that credit. But the people that I give credit to are the slightly older generation before us who were putting on punk rock shows at house parties and places that we were welcomed to come in as young teenagers, and be exposed to stuff that we otherwise probably wouldn’t have been exposed to.
I ran into Charles [Kaster] from Hans Condor recently, and we were just going through all the shows that we remember seeing at Guido’s Pizzeria. … It was people like them who helped mold my tastes. So I have to give credit to that crowd — Matt Walker, the guys from Snakeskin Machinegun, Asschapel, bands like that in that era.
Can you tell us what’s next for Sparkle City Disco? I know y’all just had another one of your legendary Basement East shows. We just finished working with our buddy Ken Sable, producer and DJ around town, on a remix for Cody Belew on one of his latest singles called “Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.” It’s a really good song of his, and we had a really good time remixing it with Ken Sable at his studio.
Beyond that, we’ve got some more gigs coming up, and we’re going to try to get back in the studio. Whether we do some more remixes or do some more original stuff, we’re just going to try to continue to slowly pepper some tracks out there. It’s kind of hard for us to stay consistent with that, but we know it’s important, so we’re going to keep on trying.
BYOP has several connections with Jack White, and when you were in Turbo Fruits, you worked with Patrick Carney. What does it feel like to be one of the few artists who crossed the Nashville rock star Cold War line between those two? [Laughs] Honestly, I haven’t really thought about that, but I’ve had very positive experiences working with both of those guys. It’s been in different ways. Jack White and Third Man Records has been much more of a record-label experience, but his support has been so great, and we’ve been so appreciative of it. He’s one of the reasons that the band got back together, because he heard we were rehearsing and then just randomly asked Jemina if we wanted to come open some shows for him. And then working with Patrick with Turbo Fruits was more, like, hands-on in the
studio, and that was also a really special experience. I’ve got positive things to say about both of those men and both of those experiences.
I’ve heard you’re a big hockey guy. Are you still officiating? Are you a Preds fan? I am still officiating, not as much as I used to. I’m absolutely a Preds fan. I think I went to the very first game during their inaugural season.
I also play in a men’s league, or some might call it a beer league. You get to see some cool people at the rink. There’s fellow people in the music business, other musicians. … I get to referee and sometimes play against some of the ex-Predators. There’s some really high-quality men’s league hockey, and it’s a lot of fun. ▼
Playing 8 p.m. Saturday, July 27, at Eastside Bowl
PHOTO: KIRT BARNETT
BE YOUR OWN PET, FROM LEFT: NATHAN VASQUEZ, JEMINA PEARL, JOHN EATHERLY AND JONAS STEIN
SUMMER BREAKS MAY be drawing to a close, but there’s plenty of the season left — and even more new records from Nashville musicians you’ll want to know better. The Scene’s music writers have eight new recommendations for you, so add ’em to your streaming queue or pick them up from your favorite record store. Some of our picks are also available to buy directly from the artists on Bandcamp. However, the Bandcamp Friday promotion — in which the platform waives its cut of sales for a 24-hour period — is on a summer break, and will return Sept. 6.
RON OBASI, THIRTY SUNZ (SELF-RELEASED)
After months in digital limbo, masterful East Side rapper Ron Obasi’s Thirty Sunz is on all streaming platforms (with three bonus tracks), and it’s worth the wait. Obasi is a philosophically inclined MC who raps eloquently about big ideas, including huge social issues like institutionalized racism. On the jazz- and R&B-inflected Thirty Sunz, he follows in the footsteps of other great rappers and uses pop culture touchstones as a lens for his point of view; standout tracks include “Dragon Ballz,” “Jim Kelly” and “Zack Taylorz,” a nod to the Black Power Ranger.
STEPHEN TRAGESER
FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS, BILL — THE STEVE ALBINI MIXES (SELF-RELEASED)
Friendship Commanders, who I hereby crown with the award for The Loudest Sound I Have Ever Felt, have unleashed a special version of their 2018 album Bill so that we might hear the mixes done by the recently and dearly departed Steve Albini. It’s an excellent way to revisit an excellent album. Singer-guitarist Buick Audra shreds mightily in these previously unreleased guitar-forward mixes, while drummer Jerry
ANOTHER LOOK
The Scene’s music writers recommend recent releases from Ron Obasi, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and more
Roe provides blistering punctuation. Songs like “Outlive You” — Albini’s personal favorite, according to the band — and Buick Audra’s invocation on “Women to the Front” are more vibrant than ever. Catch them in person July 26 at Drkmttr. CLAIRE STEELE
RAINBOW KITTEN SURPRISE, LOVE HATE MUSIC BOX (RKS/ELEKTRA)
Rainbow Kitten Surprise is particular about their work. Love Hate Music Box is only the alt-pop group’s third album in a little more than 10 years together, and it comes in the wake of major changes including singer-songwriter Ela Melo’s transition. With 22 tracks, Music Box is massive, and not every song is going to be an immediate favorite — though those that don’t hit immediately are bound to grow on you. While the danceably rocking “Superstar” and melancholy “Overtime” (which features a cotton-candy guest appearance from Kacey Musgraves) are immediate standouts, “Ghoul” is a poignant and gritty slow-burn that rewards repeat listens. It’s not easy to predict where each song is going to go, and that’s half the fun. JAYME FOLTZ
SOUR OPS, EVANGELINE (FERALETTE)
Maybe it’s because Sour Ops leader Price Harrison is an architect and a talented photographer and videographer (as well as an incisive guitarist, songwriter and singer), but the music on Evangeline applies the constraints of extreme formalism to a set of basic rock ’n’ roll songs. The group’s fourth full-length registers as power pop — I hear echoes of the approach of Texas power poppers Cotton Mather throughout the album, right down to Harrison’s wised-up vocal style, which puts me in mind of Cotton Mather’s Robert Harrison. (They aren’t related.) Still, Sour
Ops comes across like an audiophile version of a circa-1980 New Wave band that has absorbed T. Rex, The Cars and ’60s garage rock. Evangeline makes formalism sound like fun, which is a pretty rock ’n’ roll thing to do. EDD HURT
SOFIA GOODMAN GROUP, RECEPTIVE (JOYFUL)
Drummer and bandleader Sofia Goodman has followed last year’s Secrets of the Shore with Receptive, an equally distinctive LP spotlighting her compositional abilities. Out Friday, July 26, it was produced by Grammy nominee and recently arrived Nashvillian Pascal Le Boeuf and features eight originals, each adeptly anchored by Goodman’s dynamic drumming. The unit’s cohesive sound is a highlight, though there’s plenty of space to showcase each member of the band; Jovan Quallo especially excels on flute throughout “Allow,” and trombonist Desmond Ng and bassist Leland Nelson have wonderful exchanges in “Presence.” Hear it in person when the group plays July 29 at Analog at Hutton Hotel. RON WYNN
JACK McKEON, TALKING TO STRANGERS (LACHANCE)
On Talking to Strangers, Jack McKeon offers careful character sketches and lush string-band orchestration. The singer-songwriter delivers tales of small-town life and people left behind by change with the clarity of a neutral narrator. His songs brim with affection for the ways of life he captures with his guitar, there is no sense of nostalgia or boosterism — nor is there anger. Instead, McKeon is observing the world as it is, rather than how he wishes it to be. This approach invites us into a world of McKeon’s own devising as patient observers; strangers at the Waffle House counter bearing witness to others’ stories before we continue down the highway.
RACHEL CHOLST
On Moon & Stars, The Mavericks offer another collection of songs that expertly navigate the criss-crossing intersection between Latin music, country storytelling and roots-rock execution. Seasoned band leader Raul Malo — one of the smoothest storytellers in Nashville record-making — and his ensemble of ringers open the album with “The Years Will Not Be Kind,” a roadworn Western ballad worthy of a band known for rolling down endless highways to catch the next night’s gig. Created from a mixture of new songs and long-unfinished ideas finally seeing the light of day, the album continues with cuts like the title track — a collaboration with Sierra Ferrell that finds inspiration in stargazing — before taking listeners honky-tonkin’ on “Overnight Success” and into the depths of six-string heartache on “A Guitar and a Bottle of Wine.” MATTHEW LEIMKUEHLER
In the past few years, Parker James has been an in-demand collaborator, and not just because he’s one of relatively few vibraphone players around Nashville. James has a knack for getting every ounce of expressiveness out of the unusual instrument known for its resonant shimmer, which he adapts masterfully to every context he calls it into, from ambient music to rock. His trio with percussionist Caleb Breaux and bassist Paul DeFiglia leans toward jazz, the tradition that vibes are most associated with; there’s a playful funkiness underlying much of their album, and sometimes I hear echoes of ’90s R&B in the harmonic movement. Add subtle use of experimental techniques into the mix, and you’ve got a gorgeous, glittering gem of an LP. STEPHEN TRAGESER ▼
THE MAVERICKS, MOON & STARS (MONO MUNDO/ THIRTY TIGERS)
PARKER JAMES, PAUL DEFIGLIA AND CALEB BREAUX, AFTERGLOW (TABLEAUX)
VIBE ON THE SMALL FINDS
Talking with Corin Tucker about seeing the big picture on Sleater-Kinney’s Little Rope
BY HANNAH CRON
GRIEF, LIKE SO many other human experiences, can be extremely personal to one individual and shared among many at the same time. Little Rope is the 11th studio album from beloved rock band Sleater-Kinney, and the second since the departure of drummer Janet Weiss in 2019 made the band a duo. Per usual, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker share vocal and guitar duties throughout the record. Though they’re not grieving the same things or expressing it the same way all the time, a sense of loss drives the interplay between the pair’s singing and playing.
As usual, each member sings lead on the songs she wrote. Brownstein’s songs — “Hunt You Down” and “Needlessly Wild” in particular — are full of anger and raw pain. Early in the writing process, Brownstein’s mother died, and at her request Little Rope is heavy on Tucker songs. But whether Brownstein’s contribution to a given track is vocal or instrumental, her power and passion are just as vital. Meanwhile, Tucker’s songs convey the weariness of a weight long carried, tinged with universal rage. “Hell” opens the album with a haunting meditation on suffering and unrest, with contemplative verses punctuated by wailing, high-energy choruses. The song’s message was inspired by one of many recent tragic mass shootings.
“The thing that I try to do with writing is that I want it to be broad enough to catch a lot of other people’s experiences, so I tried to make it broad,” Tucker tells the Scene. “Specifically that song, it was after Uvalde, after the shooting there. We’re just living in, experiencing that, and hearing the details of that. … It’s unbearable, and we live in this giant country that has these deep, systemic problems. But because of the way that we’re connected now — through social media and through news and through our phones — it’s like we’re so close to the worst things happening and there’s no filter for it. It’s really hard to be connected to those things, and to not feel like we’re able to make changes.”
Little Rope isn’t meant to be a focused political statement, but sociopolitical issues are inherent to the band’s ethos. These themes bubble up directly on “Crusader,” which reflects on the impact of
fighting for change. “Forever rings a life lived out loud,” goes one defiant verse, and that’s exactly what Sleater-Kinney has done. The impact of their work over the past three decades as thoughtful, outspoken women who happen to make thunderous rock ’n’ roll ripples out beyond the music industry.
“The upside of being around for 30 years is that … we are able to see change and broader tolerance, especially for the LGBTQ+ community,” says Tucker. “That’s a really good change. And we see more and more of those people at our shows, just completely 100 percent being themselves. That’s great because that felt very tentative when we first started the band. … We’re still struggling with people’s rights in this country, but there are a lot more people who are part of the movement now.”
Though decades have passed and the world has changed, Tucker says she and Brownstein still find themselves turning to music for the same things they did when they were just starting out.
“Music was the first therapy, probably, for both of us,” she says. “We started the band when we were like 20 years old, so it’s still a core part of how we feel like we can relate to the world. And yeah, I think it’s still really important. But there is that feeling of discomfort that also drives us to write. That’s where we can put those kind of feelings. I think that’s part of starting a band with someone, is that you are in a relationship and you are collaborating. [Among other things], hopefully it is a shoulder to lean on when you’re struggling.”
Even with all the serious subject matter in orbit, Sleater-Kinney hasn’t forgotten about the importance of playfulness. “Small Finds,” which gave the album its title, looks at finding joy in the mundane. It’s also a character study from a singular perspective: Tucker’s rescue dog, Champ.
“The great thing about writing is being in someone else’s shoes, and changing the voice a little bit with each song. … We are writing these songs that are very heavy, and take ourselves very seriously. And then I was like, ‘What if I didn’t do that? What if I was a dog, and all I thought was, like: Poop, garbage, garbage-garbage-garbage. … Garbage is the best, most amazing thing.’ And it felt so free, that moment of letting go of all this stuff — it’s so heavy. I was like, ‘Oh, the whole song has to be garbage, garbage, garbage sniffing.’ … Although we are these human beings that have higher reasoning and all of that, we are still core animals. And we forget that small kindness to each other and those kinds of respect that could make our lives so much better. The song asks for that, in a way.” ▼
MUSIC: THE SPIN
HAVE A GOOD TIME
BY RON WYNN
OVER HIS EXTENSIVE CAREER, Jerry Williams
Jr. — better known as Swamp Dogg — has skillfully developed a distinctive identity as part curmudgeon, part social philosopher, part ribald jester and total entertainer. He recently celebrated his 82nd birthday, and he’s evolved from his early days performing a repertoire of just R&B and soul as Little Jerry and Little Jerry Williams into the contemporary, edgy and unpredictable character whose songs and music easily bridge multiple idioms.
He’s had a somewhat uneasy relationship with Nashville dating back to the early ’70s. As the story that he’s often told goes, he came to town for the 1972 CMA Awards after co-writing the Johnny Paycheck hit “She’s All I Got,” and at the ceremony, he was initially mistaken for part of the kitchen staff. But the atmosphere was very congenial for his appearance Friday at Grimey’s New and Preloved Music, where he was promoting his new LP Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street, released in May via Oh Boy. Featuring a healthy complement of Nashville talent (including guest appearances from Margo Price and Jenny Lewis), Blackgrass finds Williams blending a strong dose of country and string-band music into his idiosyncratic formula. Depending on how you count, it’s his 26th album; it’s his third collaboration with producer Ryan Olson. Swamp Dogg also made a guest appearance Saturday night at the Grand Ole Opry and is due for a return visit on a date TBA later
this summer.
Accompanied by MoogStar on keys, Swamp Dogg amused and delighted the audience throughout his nearly hourlong set. Whenever he’d make an occasional fumble, Williams would mock himself, he’d abruptly restart a tune, or else stop and take another run at a high note. “When you get old, you don’t give a fuck,” Williams said at one point. But there were a lot more highs than lows, and he offered instructive reflections on his extensive career and a lengthy list of associations and friendships, citing such names as Tommy Hunt and longtime friend John Prine.
While the focus was primarily on material from the new LP, he also went down memory lane on a couple of occasions to do fan favorites from past recordings. One was the powerful “Synthetic World” from 1970’s Total Destruction to Your Mind, a socially conscious number that feels unsettlingly fresh today. That was hard to top, but he did it with Prine’s “Sam Stone,” long a Swamp Dogg staple. On that one, Williams was vocally totally in command, relaying the story of a veteran whose combat experiences and injuries shattered his life and led to an addiction that resulted in tragedy. Afterward, Swamp Dogg offered the crowd a stirring monologue about not ignoring the struggles of those less fortunate. “Don’t just turn your back on people you see asking for help on the street,” he said. “That might be you tomorrow.”
There were also plenty of lighter moments. One was “Mess Under That Dress,” a spicy and innuendo-laden number that represents the best of the borderline X-rated Swamp Dogg wit. The same held true for “Ugly Man’s Wife,” an even funnier and smarter tune. From his top-notch songs to his finely honed performance chops to his unbeatable stage presence, Swamp Dogg offered reminder after reminder that it’s a blessing to have artists with decades of experience making records and taking the stage. ▼
Playing 8 p.m. Thursday, July 25, at Brooklyn Bowl
PHOTO: H.N. JAMES
LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I SEE: SWAMP DOGG
LOVE SUCKS
A conversation about Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
BY KIM BALDWIN AND JASON SHAWHAN
IN HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON, Canadian director and screenwriter Ariane Louis-Seize introduces us to Sasha, a teenage vampire with too much empathy to kill. Louis-Seize’s debut feature shows us a modern vampire story that’s part horror and part rom-com.
Below is a discussion between Scene digital editor Kim Baldwin and Scene senior film critic Jason Shawhan about Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and its generational themes.
Kim Baldwin: The spark for doing this was to talk to someone about how certain vampire traits evolve over time. I’m Gen X and grew up on Anne Rice. I also read the Twilight series. There’s a difference between Anne Rice’s vampires (stone-cold killers) and the Edward Cullens and now Sashas, who prefer not to kill humans to feed.
Jason Shawhan: I’m of the Gen X/Anne Rice school as well, and I think if there’s any throughline to be found in the portrayal of vampirism from a generational perspective, it’s comparable to the rise of vegetarianism and veganism, or raising queer kids. Consciousness-raising about what one eats has been a factor in family fractures and the need to break free from tradition for a while now, and vampirism is a way of exploring that through the lens of the fantastic. There are a lot of issues that can be explored using vampirism as a distancing factor. Twilight as a series is about the idea of control and temptation and making women feel guilty about anything close to sexual assertiveness. Anne’s vampires are killers, but they can refrain from doing so for love, for curiosity or because that’s their kink, so they’re a major evolution from the Dracula/Varney/Bathory archetype.
KB: The vegetarian thing is interesting. I’m not a vegetarian, so I didn’t clock that. I wrote it off as a softening for the newer generations. Like, “Oh, Gen Z doesn’t want to see vampires chomping down into people’s necks. Let’s just have them drink blood bags, or kill deer.”
JS: One of the things that I love about the subsequent generations is how they are very good at interrogating what was taken as obligatory by those who came before.
KB: Are the vampires created by boomers different from the vampires Gen X or millennials create? These new vampires have human emotions, like empathy and compassion, and in Sasha’s case, PTSD.
JS: Few boomers have accomplished what Anne Rice did, and I think she’s such a singular creator that it’s very difficult to fit her into a generational space. The novel Interview With the Vampire is coming up on its 50th anniversary, and fiction authors who work in the vampire milieu are still reckoning with her work and
its aesthetics. In a way, I think Sasha’s family in HVSCSP embodies the shifting perspectives on vampire ethics in that the oldest member of the family, the aunt, is the most bloodthirsty and the one who ascribes the least agency to human beings. The parents are torn between tradition and acknowledging their daughter’s growing social conscience and sense of ethics.
KB: Sasha’s is the first vampire family I’ve seen portrayed like this — with love and understanding for their daughter. I don’t know if What We Do in the Shadows comes into this, but it’s also a very loving dysfunctional family. I loved that Sasha’s family got her a clown for her birthday, and that she was supposed to eat it. And then when she freaked out, they took her to a vampire therapist.
JS: It’s also interesting how vampire cultures are often portrayed as diaspora communities, where they may be a central council or collective of ancient thought, but they are at a remove from the average vampire, so the keeping of these traditions can be seen as a way of maintaining something they were raised in. I love the idea of the sacrificial birthday clown, though, and admire the way that HVSCSP finds its own kétaine spin on the modern reckoning with the vampire that modern media has been having. Also, there are few things that bring me joy like Quebecois swears.
KB: YES!!
JS: In a way, vampires are like cops, in that the needs of the story are going to determine both how they are portrayed and the ethics with which they conduct themselves.
KB: Omg, AVAB. I want to talk about how the scene where she brings Paul back to her cousin’s loft is like a losing-your-virginity scene. When they’re on the bed and she’s preparing to bite
him, he asks if he should angle his neck, close his eyes or lie down. I also thought the way she got her fangs was similar to a girl getting her period, or puberty in general. The surprise, horror and shame is familiar.
JS: I would agree with you. Sasha getting her fangs is very relatable to anyone who spent years at the mercy of biochemistry and autonomic nervous responses. And it’s also very funny the way that their relationship evolves, to the point that the bite can’t happen until they’ve done the groundwork and truly gotten to know one another. It’s such an intimate act that neither of them can undertake it casually.
KB: One more point I’m interested in. I’ve recovered from disordered eating and I saw a parallel between Sasha’s refusal to eat and human eating disorders. The way her family had to beg her to eat and then how she stopped eating to prove a point/gain control.
JS: That’s an intriguing perception. It seems a very complex metaphor that I’m not really qualified to speak to. But I have no doubt that the makers of HVSCSP are concerned with the issues that young women face in the world, and I think that makes sense as something that they want to address. ▼
Saturday, July 27
SONGWRITER SESSION
Carson Beyer
NOON ·
Saturday, July 27
HATCH SHOW PRINT
Block Party
2:30 pm · HATCH SHOW PRINT SHOP LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Sunday, July 28
MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
Randy Hart
1:00 pm · FORD THEATER
Saturday, August 3
SONGWRITER SESSION Joe Doyle
NOON · FORD THEATER
Sunday, August 4
MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
Jon Corneal and Jim Lauderdale
1:00 pm · FORD THEATER
Wednesday, August 7
LOUISE SCRUGGS MEMORIAL FORUM Honoring
Sally Williams
6:30 pm · FORD THEATER
Saturday, August 10
HATCH SHOW PRINT
Block Party
9:30 am, NOON, and 2:30 pm HATCH SHOW PRINT SHOP LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Saturday, August 10
SONGWRITER SESSION Clay Mills
NOON · FORD THEATER
Saturday, August 10
POETS AND PROPHETS
John Hiatt
2:30 pm · FORD THEATER
1 Evidence collector, for short
4 Airport acquisitions
10 Transports not allowed on highways, in brief 14 Homecoming, of a sort?
15 Lead-in to normative 16 Canning jar component
Breath
Marathoner’s focus 20 Trial figure
Itinerant
23 Hiking gear chain
24 Kids’ menu go-with
26 Reaching across
28 Neighbor of New York: Abbr.
29 Kind of 31 Hanger-on
32 Slop spots
34 Over it
35 Get out of Dodge
36 Fancy few
37 In reserve
38 Name associated with blue ribbons
39 Loud kiss
40 Staff note
41 Accessibility law inits.
44 Walked for a cause
46 Prisoner’s reprieve
49 Issue in a group project, perhaps
50 Sidekick of 1950s TV
52 Dress down
53 “Deal!”
55 Commercial identifiers … or what four pairs of answers must do in order to match their clues
57 Letters on an “Organic” label
58 Take baby steps
59 TV relative who wears a bowler hat and sunglasses
60 Dope
61 Roger’s cousin?
62 Position held by a woman at roughly 10% of Fortune 500 companies DOWN
1 Brand for bakers
2 Get bronze
3 Mens rea, for example
4 Bowling-pin-shaped creature of Al Capp cartoons
5 What the March Hare dips his watch in
6 Subject line abbr.
7 Process of cell division
8 Inspiration for an essay writer
9 Technology used in seafloor mapping
10 Vape’s lack
11 Most lachrymose
12 Kind of electrons on the outermost shell of an atom
13 Dancer’s haul
18 Lorelai’s place of business on “Gilmore Girls”
22 U.S. city where the frozen margarita was invented
25 Gullible
27 “Wild” ingredient in some beers
30 Symbol of industry
32 Smooth
33 Something to pick up at will call
34 Monk’s style
35 Boa you wouldn’t want around your neck
36 On the ___
37 “Wowzers!”
38 Fivesomes
39 Went from a trot to a canter, say
40 President during the Era of Good Feelings
41 Like some clocks
42 Have away with words?
43 Enhances
45 Eccentric
47 He played Mary Richards’s boss at WJM-TV
48 Former parent company of NBC
51 Calculations often expressed with a “+” or “–”
54 Partake of
56 Certain Ivy Leaguer
Crosswords for young solvers: nytimes.com/studentcrosswords.
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CLASSES: LEARN A NEW SKILL!
7/25 Beginner’s Intro to Manual Loom Knitting
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7/28 Sewing Club
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8/1 Intro to the Table Saw
8/3 Intro to MIG Welding
8/7 Traditional Mortise and Tenon Joinery With Power Tools
8/8 Intro to MIG Welding
8/10 Crafting Pop-Up Books: A Hands-On Workshop
accordance with the terms and provisions of the loan documents and Deed of Trust.
WHEREAS, Mustard Seed Living LLC executed a Deed of Trust dated September 30, 2021, of record at Instrument No. 202110010132439, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee (collectively, the “Deed of Trust”) and conveyed to Richard A. Bynum, as Trustee, the hereinafter described real property to secure the payment of certain indebtedness (“Indebtedness”) owed to Studio Bank (referred to as “Lender” and sometimes as “Beneficiary”); and WHEREAS, default in payment of the Indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust has occurred; and WHEREAS, David M. Anthony (“Trustee”) has been appointed Substitute Trustee by Lender by that Appointment of Substitute Trustee of record at Instrument No. 202406250047369, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee, with authority to act alone or by a designated agent with the powers given the Trustee in the Deed of Trust and by applicable law; and WHEREAS, Lender, the owner and holder of said Indebtedness, has demanded that the real property be advertised and sold in satisfaction of said Indebtedness and the costs of the foreclosure, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the loan documents and Deed of Trust.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the Trustee, pursuant to the power, duty and authority vested in and imposed upon the Trustee under the Deed of Trust and applicable law, will on Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., prevailing time, on the steps of the historic Davidson County Courthouse, 1 Public Square, Nashville, Tennessee 37201, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder for cash and free from all rights and equity of redemption, statutory right of redemption or otherwise, homestead, dower, elective share and all other rights and exemptions of every kind as waived in said Deed of Trust, certain real property situated in Davidson County, Tennessee, described as follows:
Legal Description: The real property is described in the Deed of Trust at Instrument No. 20211001-0132439, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee.
Land in Davidson County, Tennessee, being Lot No. 183, Block 9, on the plan of Heffernan Place as of record in Book 161, Page 138, Register’s Office for Davidson County, Tennessee, to which plan reference is hereby made for a more complete and accurate description of said lot.
For reference: Said Lot No. 183 fronts 50 feet on the northerly side of Albion Street, and runs back between parallel lines, with the easterly margin of 24th Avenue North, 140 feet to an alley.
Avenue North, 140 feet to an alley.
Being part of the same property conveyed from Elizabeth Annette Essen, unmarried, to Mustard Seed Living, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, by Warranty Deed dated October 4, 2016, recorded October 6, 2016, in Instrument No. 20161006-
0105798, in the Register’s Office of Davidson County, Tennessee. Street Address: The street address of the property is believed to be 2423 Albion Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37208-3207, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property. In the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control.
Other interested parties: Kenco Distributors, Inc.
Being part of the same property conveyed from Elizabeth Annette Essen, unmarried, to Mustard Seed Living, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, by Warranty Deed dated October 4, 2016, recorded October 6, 2016, in Instrument No. 20161006-
THIS PROPERTY IS SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AND SUBJECT TO ANY PRIOR LIENS OR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE PROPERTY IS SOLD WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, RELATING TO TITLE, MARKETABILITY OF TITLE, POSSESSION, QUIET ENJOINMENT OR THE LIKE AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, CONDITION, QUALITY OR FITNESS FOR A GENERAL OR PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the Trustee, pursuant to the power, duty and authority vested in and imposed upon the Trustee under the Deed of Trust and applicable law, will on Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., prevailing time, on the steps of the historic Davidson County Courthouse, 1 Public Square, Nashville, Tennessee 37201, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder for cash and free from all rights and equity of redemption, statutory right of redemption or otherwise, homestead, dower, elective share and all other rights and exemptions of every kind as waived in said Deed of Trust, certain real property situated in Davidson County, Tennessee, described as follows: Legal Description: The real property is described in the Deed of Trust at Instrument No. 20211001-0132439, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee.
Land in Davidson County, Tennessee, being Lot No. 183, Block 9, on the plan of Heffernan Place as of record in Book 161, Page 138, Register’s Office for Davidson County, Tennessee, to which plan reference is hereby made for a more complete and accurate description of said lot.
For reference: Said Lot No. 183 fronts 50 feet on the northerly side of Albion Street, and runs back between parallel lines, with the easterly margin of 24th Avenue North, 140 feet to an alley.
Being part of the same property conveyed from Elizabeth Annette Essen, unmarried, to Mustard Seed Living, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, by Warranty Deed dated October 4, 2016, recorded
LOCAL
Nashboro
ENJOY
Percy
As to all or any part of the Property, the right is reserved to (i) delay, continue or adjourn the sale to another time certain or to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of said delay, continuance or adjournment on the day and time and place of sale set forth above or any subsequent delayed, continued or adjourned day and time and place of sale; (ii) sell at the time fixed by this Notice or the date and time of the last delay, continuance or adjournment or to give new notice of sale; (iii) sell in such lots, parcels, segments, or separate estates as Trustee may choose; (iv) sell any part and delay, continue, adjourn, cancel, or postpone the sale of any part of the Property; (v) sell in whole and then sell in parts and consummate the sale in whichever manner produces the highest sale price; (vi) and/or to sell to the next highest bidder in the event any high bidder does not comply with the terms of the sale. Substitute Trustee will make no covenant of seisin, marketability of title or warranty of title, express or implied, and will sell and convey the subject real property by Trustee’s Quitclaim Deed as Substitute Trustee only. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded Plat or Plan; any unpaid taxes and assessments (plus penalties, interest, and costs) which exist as a lien against said property; any restrictive covenants, easements or setback lines that may be applicable; any rights of redemption, equity, statutory or otherwise, not otherwise waived in the Deed of Trust, including rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state
FAVORITE
Larry’s
Indoor
Outdoor
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, CONDITION, QUALITY OR FITNESS FOR A GENERAL OR PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE. As to all or any part of the Property, the right is reserved to (i) delay, continue or adjourn the sale to another time certain or to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of said delay, continuance or adjournment on the day and time and place of sale set forth above or any subsequent delayed, continued or adjourned day and time and place of sale; (ii) sell at the time fixed by this Notice or the date and time of the last delay, continuance or adjournment or to give new notice of sale; (iii) sell in such lots, parcels, segments, or separate estates as Trustee may choose; (iv) sell any part and delay, continue, adjourn, cancel, or postpone the sale of any part of the Property; (v) sell in whole and then sell in parts and consummate the sale in whichever manner produces the highest sale price; (vi) and/or to sell to the next highest bidder in the event any high bidder does not comply with the terms of the sale. Substitute Trustee will make no covenant of seisin, marketability of title or warranty of title, express or implied, and will sell and convey the subject real property by Trustee’s Quitclaim Deed as Substitute Trustee only. This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded Plat or Plan; any unpaid taxes and assessments (plus penalties, interest, and costs) which exist as a lien against said property; any restrictive covenants, easements or setback lines that may be applicable; any rights of redemption, equity, statutory or otherwise, not otherwise waived in the Deed of Trust, including rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; and any and all prior deeds of trust, liens, dues, assessments, encumbrances, defects, adverse claims and other matters that may take priority over the Deed of Trust upon which this foreclosure sale is
interest, and costs) which exist as a lien against said property; any restrictive covenants, easements or setback lines that may be applicable; any rights of redemption, equity, statutory or otherwise, not otherwise waived in the Deed of Trust, including rights of redemption of any governmental agency, state or federal; and any and all prior deeds of trust, liens, dues, assessments, encumbrances, defects, adverse claims and other matters that may take priority over the Deed of Trust upon which this foreclosure sale is
conducted or are not extinguished by this Foreclosure Sale. This sale is also subject to any matter that an inspection and accurate survey of the property might disclose. THIS 18th day of July, 2024.
David M. Anthony, Substitute Trustee EXO LEGAL PLLC P.O. Box 121616 Nashville, TN 37212 david@exolegal.com 615-869-0634
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