[Postcard2] Visiting Nashville and Austin

[Kevin Fredette]

In Nashville: If you're still into CD's, Grimey's is a really good record store.  Prince's Hot Chicken is outside of town, so you'll need a car, but it's worth the drive.  Don't order anything hotter than Medium unless you have prior experience.  The Country Music Hall of Fame is well worth it and they have a cool store.  See the Opry if it's playing at the Ryman while you're there.  Even if it's not, the Ryman tour is still pretty good.  After that you can poke your head in at Hatch Show Print.  There's not much to do but watch them work, but that's still pretty interesting.  And by all means go to the Station Inn.  It's only a few blocks away from Lower Broad, but none of the tourists seem to know about it, and the music is all but guaranteed to be good.  



Kevin 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Durkacz" <idurkacz at inf.ed.ac.uk> 
To: "Postcard2" <postcard2 at lists.drizzle.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:03:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: [Postcard2] Visiting Nashville and Austin 

I may be visiting both Nashville and Austin soon, and I would be interested to 
have recommendations for good music venues in both cities. 

In Nashville, I have heard about places like The Station Inn, The Bluebird Cafe 
and Robert's. In Austin, I have heard about The Broken Spoke, The Continental 
Club, Ginny's, and Jovita's; and, further afield, Gruene Hall. 

Obviously, I know I need to check the listings to see who's playing in any of 
these places on any particular night; what I'm trying to find out is which in 
general are the good places to go. (And, for that matter, which might be places 
to avoid.) 

Thanks. Broadening things out a little, recommendations of other things to see 
and do in or around both cities would be very welcome. 

Thanks in advance, 
Ian 

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Ian Durkacz                              | idurkacz @ inf. ed. ac. uk 
School of Informatics, Univ of Edinburgh | Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5188 

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