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Originally Posted by IROC
I go every once in a while. Was there for a week-long conference last May. For me it is kind of crazy. Walk the strip at night and there are a million things to do. Live music coming from everywhere - just pick what you want.
We were eating at a Spanish Tapas place about a block off the strip and heard Louis Armstrong singing "What a Beautiful World" very loudly. I assumed it was a recording, but he kept repeating parts unlike the original. When we left the restaurant we saw that it was actually a white guy standing on a street corner. Sounded exactly like Louis Armstrong.
Lots of talent in Nashville.
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Here’s some trivia; my friend’s dad wrote that song! It’s actually, “What a Wonderful World,” his name was Bob Thiele, (same name as his son), I was just with him Friday night. My friend is a very talented musician but his dad was a legend in music. Search him online for a good read…a giant of mid-20th century recording industry.
As for Nashville, it’s completely true about the abundance of musical talent everywhere and it seems like there are no lousy musicians on stage anywhere but the main drag of downtown Nashville has become quite the tourist trap with loud, drunken idiots braying in the streets at all hours. At least that’s what I always luck into there. My friends who used to live there in the old days call it, “Nash Vegas.”
If you actually know someone who lives there and can show you the beautiful area away from downtown, that’s a different ballgame. I do.