When I was growing up in Nashville, there was an iconic anti-littering commercial featuring an unsavory motorist chucking garbage out of a jalopy and a song about "Tennessee Trash" playing in the background. In today's inclusive world, I don't suspect you could air a public service announcement equating a human to trash--even as double-entendre. Even … Continue reading A Little on the Trashy Side
Thursday is Chicken Day in Building Construction Technology class at Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Nashville. We used to drive to Publix to grab buckets of fried drumsticks and eat in the classroom among the sawdust. Since then, the tradition has evolved into a field trip to a nearby chicken shack. Now that I've graduated, one of the … Continue reading Ain’t Nobody Here But Us, Eating Chicken
It feels like back-to-school season at the former Baker-Curb Racing shop, which now houses the set of Nashville. The crew of CMT's BNA-themed series is trickling back into the 60,000-square-foot studio near Brick Church Pike, prepping to start shooting Season 6 on Sept. 27. By the middle of next week, the better part of the … Continue reading Behind the Scenes: On the “Nashville” Set
Build Me Up, Buttercup 