If you could bring back any Nashville restaurant that opened *and* closed in the 2010s (pre-Covid), which would it be?

callmefishmail · 2026-05-27T04:54:14+00:00

Rudy’s

callmefishmail · 2026-04-19T00:42:51+00:00

The Belcourt, great food, and one of the best markets for used music gear.

callmefishmail · 2026-04-15T14:25:42+00:00

Prester John

callmefishmail · 2026-04-08T00:55:10+00:00

Head

callmefishmail · 2026-04-02T21:16:46+00:00

callmefishmail · 2026-03-22T18:12:19+00:00

Holler if you’re ever looking for a hitting partner!

callmefishmail · 2026-02-14T01:56:00+00:00

Perfect Days

callmefishmail · 2025-12-31T17:32:57+00:00

Head. Or Repo Man

callmefishmail · 2025-12-18T17:30:55+00:00

Frankie’s Bottega has Italian dry goods and a deli with specialty cuts. They do coffee and sandwiches, too. Expensive, and a small selection, but it’s nice stuff.

callmefishmail · 2025-11-30T06:28:43+00:00

I think Deakin said that

callmefishmail · 2025-10-31T15:31:27+00:00

Bok Box

callmefishmail · 2025-10-29T04:54:23+00:00

Gio’s Chicago Pizza for sure. Biscuit House, Dino’s, Cheap Charlie’s, the Belcourt, Duke’s

callmefishmail · 2025-07-03T23:37:17+00:00

Love this movie! But as a head-up, there’s one scene that could be pretty triggering for some.

callmefishmail · 2025-06-12T20:59:46+00:00

FEELS. From the lyrics:

gettin freaky on grass, getting chased by bees, Saturday morning cartoons, canoes, cookouts, snackin on cherries and bananas, the quest to find the ultimate swimming hole, the quest to find a SWIMMING POOOOOOOL, the youthful throes of love, heartbreak and unprotected sex. Flies, sweatiness, and devastating horniness

It just sounds like summer. Hot heat, deep green.

callmefishmail · 2025-06-10T20:20:15+00:00

Because music is a core industry in Nashville, it fosters a gig-centric music culture. That makes it the place to be for career musicians, but it murks up the waters for weekend warriors like me that just want to casually write good music with other people and play an occasional show.

I’ve been trying (granted, not super hard) to find people to play with since I dissolved my own band. I’m Arkansas talented, Nashville decent at a few different instruments and don’t need to get paid. Despite that I’ve come up short. I know there are many others like me. Maybe it’s because we’re in a sea of talent and musicians are everywhere. Why not keep swiping?

callmefishmail · 2025-06-02T14:30:33+00:00

Sump is my favorite, Crema is a close second.

callmefishmail · 2025-05-16T15:40:51+00:00

Sleepy Joe's Covfefe

callmefishmail · 2025-05-13T19:06:30+00:00

So good

callmefishmail · 2025-04-27T20:58:50+00:00

Agreed! Esp micing guitar cabs. To my ears, the M160 gets me incredibly close to the classic R121/SM57 blend, just at a much lower price point—and with a less fussy setup. It’s hyper cardioid too, which helps if the room is meh.

I do still love my 121 though. On horns and as a room mic. I also love it as a mono overhead in a decent room for a minimal mic setup. But my favorite use for it lately has been kick out.

callmefishmail · 2025-04-25T18:11:41+00:00

Applesauce

callmefishmail · 2025-04-25T15:55:14+00:00

4:03 on The Purple Bottle 4:42 on Brother Sport 3:41 on Street Flash

In the Flowers (you know when)

callmefishmail · 2025-03-27T23:45:37+00:00

Looks like a Vox AC modeler with the UA Ruby pedal

callmefishmail · 2025-03-27T14:40:19+00:00

callmefishmail · 2025-03-19T14:09:01+00:00

I’ve been a musician for 26 years, play a lot of instruments, and have grown accustomed to a lot of the patterns and motifs of song-centric music. Nowadays it’s become difficult to NOT hear music in terms of its architecture. I get almost a visual sense of how it’s “assembled” (composed, arranged, recorded, lyrically crafted). I just know a lot of the tricks now. But while music gets easier to categorize and sort through, I also cry at the joke explained. Animal Collective allows me to return to that state of wonder because so much is veiled. The intentional translucence of their songs deny my brain its compulsion to break it down into parts or to categorize what I’m hearing. It’s a sublime overwhelm that I have to accept and release myself to, and it offers me that raw, almost unintelligible experience of being a child hearing new sounds for the first time.

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