I love this town.

I was working the closing shift at work last night, and as was sweeping the café floor, I started talking with the one of our regular’s hanging out in the store.  His name is Hayward.  He asked me about music and what I wanted to do here in Nashville.  I told him a little about how I moved here to write and just pursue music a little more intently.  I asked him what he did here, and he said he used to be a session drummer back in the day. He came to Nashville from Memphis with a bunch of other guys who worked at a studio in Memphis as a rhythm section.  Then, out of his bag on the table, he pulled out a book called “Memphis Boys”, which is about him and the other guys he came to Nashville with, showed me pictures in the book, some of him behind the console at a recording studio, and some of his recording buddies with Aretha Franklin.

It was so cool to hear him talk about his move to Nashville, and how he worked on some pretty big name albums.  I love that I can be hanging out at work and get to chat with someone who played music for a living back before itunes and youtube. Back when Elvis and Johnny were alive.  Classic. 

I live in such a cool town. No wonder they call it “Music City”!

Also, it’s so amazing how small the world really is.  

Last night as I was leaving work, I ended up chatting with some people outside. One of them is a regular customer who is also a friend of a friend of mine here in Nashville.  He asked me where I was from, and when I told him Oklahoma City, he freaked out a little and said “No way! I went to school there back in the day!” I asked where he went to school, he said Mid-America University. I asked him if he knew one of my friends who used to work there, named Marty. Then he freaked out a little more. Apparently Marty was one of his best friends and toured with him in with his band back in the day. 

We also figured out that he was also at the Write About Jesus Workshop in St. Louis I went to last year. I knew he looked familiar, and I had a feeling that was why.

Crazy. 

New friends are fun!

It’s things like these that make me giddy with the realization that I belong here. I am right where I am supposed to be.  In a city full of “small town connections” and people willing to write music with you left and right just because it’s fun!(and of course writing a million-dollar hit song wouldn’t be such a bad thing!)

Here’s to Nashville. <3

My home away from home.