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Music City: Evening 1

9/22/2010

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Had a long drive up from Louisiana today and arrived Nashville just after 4 pm.   I took the Church Street exit from I-40 to wind up at Music Row.  It took a few drive-stop-mapcheck cycles to find my way (the streets in the Music Row area run at angles and have weird angular intersections -- whew!) such that I ended up at NSAI around 4:30.

Whitnei Jeffcoat showed me around the main area of NSAI and talked to me and -- thank you, Lord -- set me up a one-on-one with Brent Baxter at 1:00 tomorrow.  I had tried to contact Brent on my own, but  was unsuccessful.  This is more than I could ask or think!

I left NSAI and got checked into the Holiday Inn which is right across the parking lot from the Vanderbilt stadium.  I went downstairs for dinner in the Commodore just as their songwriter rounds were starting.  I heard about 18-20 fine singer/songwriters doing their songs in the approximately 2.5 hours I spent there.  I was starting to fade, so I came up instead of staying for more (there was still a couple of hours worth of writers left to go).

It's been a good learning experience so far and I look forward to more tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, one of the later performers was a young guy from Sheridan AR (I drove through there on the way today).  Also, one of the writers mentioned that Lance Carpenter was the co-writer of one of his tunes.  A shout out to Lance!
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Deanna link
9/28/2010 12:45:22 am

Hey John!

I saw your blog post on my Google Alerts! I just wanted to check in and say hello! I'm so glad that we were able to help you out with your writing this week. It sounds like you had a great time and learned a lot! If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email :)

PS, Lance is a GREAT guy and a GREAT writer :)


Thanks,

Deanna


Deanna R. Tassoni
Membership Representative
Nashville Songwriters Association International
1710 Roy Acuff Pl. Nashville, TN 37203
(800) 321-6008
deanna@nashvillesongwriters.com

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