Guest co-host this week, Jennifer Jenkins.

Tennessee right now… Covid19… 93,936 cases… 38,000 active death toll @ 967; Party Busses that serve alcohol have been ordered to close; Bars and Restaurants  that serve alcohol ordered to close at 10pm; places like Commodore Grill and The Listening Room… where you can hear songwriters in the round are open with restrictions reducing capacity.

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Marathon Village and Motor works located on the corner of 12th Ave North and Clinton Street - west/nw of downtown, 5 min uber.  www.marathonvillage.net

• If you come to Nashville - one place you have to visit is Marathon - it is a stop on all the trolly tours.
• Everything is handicap accessible here, there is FOOD, and there is plenty of parking - free on the street or $10 in the lot
• This is a destination.  If you come here, you will spend several hours.
• Places here that are noteworthy
  • First… the MOTORWORKS
  • Antique Archieology, Jack Daniels Store and many others.  There is music at both of these locations from time to time, check internet pages.
  • Third Coast Comedy Club (www.thirdcoastcomedy.club)
  • Food - deli, bang candy, coffee, wine
  • Distilleries:  Corsair (https://www.corsairdistillery.com/), Tennessee Legend, and Nelson's Green Brier Distillery/Belle Meade Bourbon (https://greenbrierdistillery.com/)
  • Marathon Music Works (www.Marathonmusicworks.com)
    • Private events, fundraisers, concerts, festivals…
    • Wizards Beer Festival (Aug 14)
    • Yacht Rock Revue (70/80's tribute band) Sept 4.
    • Ticket events just restatted.  Their schedule doesn't kick back in solid until September/October

OLD TIME FEELING - Guy Clark. 

• Born, Monahan, TX - 1941 - 2016 (http://guyclark.com/)
• Folk Singer, Country, Singer-Songwriter - released more than 20 albums
• Recorded covered by:  Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett, Kathy Mattea, Lyle Lovett, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, Johnny Cash, Will Nelson, Brad Paisley, .
• 2014 Grammy for best folk album:  My Favorite Picture of You
• On his passing, the NYTimes - called him "a King of the Texas Troubadours".
• What got me into Guy Clark?  Someone introduced me to the album - "Together at the BlueBird Café" - in-the-round concert with Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark - PURE GOLD!  Recorded in Sept. 1995 this album shows a true bond between these three artists.
• To understand Guy Clark and this genre… that some describe at … go back and watch the 1976 documentary film - "Heart Worn Highways". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405963/
  • IN the about of HWH… it describes these guys as the founders of the Outlaw Country movement. 
  • All these guys are visionaries who either wrote songs for or have been covered by artist from different genres all over the world… in numerous languages: rock singers/country/pop… etc…(Rodney Crowell - Shame on the Moon, Bob Seger), Townes - If I Needed You - COVERED BY 61 different Artists - "Dashboard Confessional"… Dashboard Confessional - If I Needed You. 
  • Look at American rock/alternative country today… people like Ryan Adams, Jay Farrar… and bands that they were in like Whiskeytown, SonVolt, Uncle Tupelo… all have some of this "Outlaw Country".
  • In the Heart Worn Highways documentary, you have:
    • David Allan Coe… prison, mamas, trucks…
    • Charlie Daniels… the devil went down to Georgia…
    • Steve Young… 7 Bridges Road
    • Gamble Rogers… comedy folk country
    • Larry John Wilson - Ohoopee River Bottomland
    • Townes Van Zandt - STUD… song-writer, Pancho and Lefty (Willie)… and many others… probably one the best songwriters to ever live… could have been better than Dylan.  1996… Sonic Youth drummer, Steve Shelley - tried to record TVZ… drunk, fell, broke hip and in Jan 1, 1997… died.
    • Guy Clark… performs LA Freeway… and several others.
  • Also, a 2015 film, Heart Worn Highways Revisited...