Great-Grandma's Garden: Arizona Star, Guy Clark, Nashville, and Us Part III

What can I say about Nashville, Tennessee? If it hadn't been for Nashville, Raf and I would never have met and married. It was an absolutely great place to live in the 1970s. There was music, entertainment, and church. It was colleges, night clubs, stars, and the river. There was history and nature. It was all the best things we could have asked for. I remember, as a Texan, thinking that it's lovely because all the wind is up in the trees rather than down here blowing you around like it does in Texas.

Texas law is based on Tennessee law. Did you know that?

One of our favorite places to go was Elliston Place and the Gold Rush:

"We knew Nashville before there was ‘New Nashville’. Formerly the Ritz Café, The Gold Rush first opened its doors in 1974 and located on Elliston Place’s historic ‘Rock Block’, directly across the street from the world famous Exit/In. The Gold will always be a haven where musicians, visitors, and locals all have a place at the bar. One of Nashville’s first establishments allowed to pour liquor by the drink and legend has it that 90% of the stories you’ve heard are true. If it’s happened in Nashville, it’s happened at the Gold Rush."

We also loved the Elliston Place Soda Shop. But our first date was at Mississippi Whiskers...of course, it's not there any more, but on that first date we saw and heard Lenny Breau. Here's a clip of Lenny playing that night.