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Marjorie Fair
GiG 13 ^^^^^^^^ NASHVILLE, TN
Posted in GIGS on Oct 12, 2006 at 1:39 AM

We are 18 miles from downtown Nashville staying at a Ramada Limited with a 200-year-old cemetery across the parking lot and very much outside our window. On the other side of the driveway is three stored trailers from big rigs. The weather is beautiful: a perfect fall day- not too hot or cold, an easy breeze always moving and lots of leaves left on the trees. We are all excited to play Nashville; it’s such a big music town, so many legends. A lot of the crew are from around here so they are happy too. (Sheryl has a ranch around here somewhere as well.) A lot of them went out to bars and whatnot last night and stayed up very late.
Artie and Evan went out downtown last night to a club and Jayson and I (Wayne) went into Nashville this morning and got a tour of the world-famous historic Studio B recording studio owned by RCA. I was totally geeking out. I’m a huge fan of some of these early recordings: particularly of the Everly Brothers stuff. I wish I could live in this place, so it was hard to leave. I believe that studio is magical or something close to it. We made our way back to the hotel and on to the venue. It was a very relaxed day for everyone. There was a common area backstage with red picnic benches and a small basketball court with two ping pong tables. Adults and children were playing catch on the lawn, sitting under trees and at the benches, playing basketball and ping pong … it was a little utopia. Not the norm, but much appreciated. The catering was Southern-style: baked beans, biscuits & gravy, greens, catfish, chicken, mashed potatoes, etc. I guess all-in-all it was a down-home experience, especially because of the Crow camp family guests. Our dressing room was a trailer on the other side of all the action surrounded by four running semis and tour buses. It had a country bumpkin couch, fake wood paneling, a box of 500 promo Trojan condoms, old venue ponchos, a drawing table, a strip of Christmas tree lights around the ceiling, a filing cabinet and a tan rug that smelled like cat pee over the linoleum floor. Not the most glamorous of greenrooms. The stages and seats of these amphitheaters are all starting to look alike. We are more east now and it’s getting dark earlier which means it’s dark during our set. That was fun; it added to the mood on stage. We had a good show. The crowd seemed a little confused at our sound. A lot of staring. Maybe we are too spacey or psychedelic for Nashville’s pop audience. That wasn’t the best feeling, but it was to be expected. Sheryl seems to be more at ease in the South. She had a good set. Keith Urban came out and they played the Petty/Nicks classic “Stop Dragging My Heart Around,” and Urban played on another song after that. They sounded great together. Two pros being pros. Nicole Kidman was hanging backstage, attracting groups of people purposefully having conversations near her to bask in her aesthetic glory. We shot the shit with the band a bit after the show and took off to the hotel.

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Oct 18th, 2:28am
I was fortunate to be in the 2nd row for your show in Nashville and thought you guys were awesome. But then again, I'm not from Nashville...so there.

Went out the following day & got your CD. Playing it daily.

Thanks for putting on a great show! Made it worth the trip.
Quen
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