VENDOR GUIDE

Contributor vendor Maurice B. on hot chicken and tourist attractions

INTERVIEW BY JUSTIN WAGNER

Maurice B. — also known as The Bucket Man — has lived in Nashville for five years. And though he’s seen it grow exponentially over the last several years, the city’s history keeps his love of the city aflame.

BEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

All of it. You’ve got the arts, you can go and look at all the monuments, all the parks — everything! Old history, you cannot miss it. I even wrote an article on all that. … You got history here about the streets, what it used to be. I’ll make a suggestion of what I’d do — you got an all-day bus pass and run around, see everything.

FAVORITE THING TO DO IN NASHVILLE

What I enjoy doing is really actually being out, selling The Contributor paper out there on 46th and Charlotte where there’s a lot of history. You have the history of that old Masonic lodge that used to be on 46th, which was turned into a lot of different businesses. There’s growth, always. Ever since 2016 when I first got here, there’s been growth here in Nashville.

HOW TO ESCAPE THE NOISE OF THE CITY

Escape all the noise of the city? What part of the city don’t you understand? I don’t see no noise, this city is lovely! It’s about the city, man, you know what I’m saying?

Well — I’m wrong, I’m wrong. When I want to get away from it, I go home and go to bed. It could be like Las Vegas, the lights never get turned off. But we here in Nashville, we shut down sometimes. And that’s good! Go home, go to sleep, get you some rest.

HOT CHICKEN: WORTH IT OR NOT?

For me, I don’t give a shit? I ain’t down with that hot chicken. I haven’t seen a place here that hot chicken is good — even Hattie B’s! Whenever I eat some hot chicken, it ain’t nothing but spice. You can’t even taste the daggum chicken.

FAVORITE PLACE TO EAT

At home. Home-cooked meal.

BEST SPOT IN THE CITY

Everything here in Nashville is growing, that simply means I can’t just say one spot that I can say is my favorite spot. But I enjoy the growth that’s right there in my community. Well, two, I call ‘em my two communities: Richland Park and Sylvan Park. I’ve been there since 2016, they’ve backed me up with anything and everything I needed to do... It’s a home for me.