Over the weekend Nashville had 18 plus inches of rain. The Cumberland River went up to 50 feet and paid a visit to the Grand Old Opry, LP Stadium and the historic downtown area. This does mirror the 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids where 14 inches and 31 feet of muddy flood water changing the town forever. Opryland and the new GOO will be out of comission for a while it seems. That beautiful stage and seating area, the hotel room and lobby, under smelly flood mud left behind? Just like Hancher in Iowa City and The Paramount in CR, gonna take a lotta work to clean the mess up and our thoughts and prayers to everybody down there. We're still trying to clean up almost 2 years after our little flood. One of the reasons why I hate springtime. Get too much rain to the point it floods.
Somewhere along the flood, a dude from Springville who moved out to Nashville to seek playing in a band is missing among the flooded ruins. Danny Young, an aspiring guitar player went missing after going tubing. And hasn't been heard from since. Here's hoping he can be found alive.
One of the new releases this week is from Chely Wright, who had a number one hit with Single White Female for MCA in 1999. She made news by coming out of the closet and saying that she is gay. And I'm sure the Nashvegans are up in arms with that, especially right winger John Rich. Supposely Rich confronted her about this a few years ago preaching total damnation and you'll never work in Nashville again if you're a lesbian. She almost decided to leave town on a bullet but decided against it and wrote a bunch of new songs dealing with her feelings and it's now out on Vanguard and produced by Rodney Crowell who I am certain will make this album perhaps her biggest statement but I don't expect to see any videos on CMT or GAC if John Rich gets his way. But then again, not too many people bought Rich's flop album of last year. It shouldn't bother people if Wright is gay or not, although in my own estimation that I would have liked to change her mind had I met her but not even Brad Paisley could not change her mind either.
RIP Freeway Express Lounge, which got bulldozed down this week. Used to be a hangout for me till the floods of 2008 made it unsafe to be in and despite people trying to get it on the national historical site list, that failed. The Freeway Express Lounge was about five blocks away from Broadcast Manor, my old place of residence in the early 90s.
Kenneth Laymon, the trucker who rammed into a van killing 10 people on a way to a wedding in Iowa was talking on a cellphone and speeding on a Kentucky interstate. A reason why texting and talking on cellphones should be banned. Especially from speeding truckers. Laymon died in the crash as well.
For the BP mess in the Gulf, this is a good reason to get off the oil although the GOP and Sarah Palin don't think so. Of course gas prices have gone up 12 cents due to this and don't let anybody else tell you otherwise. Again we'll all pay at the pump for this oil spill.
Finally, I can't do the blog at work anymore. They have stuck a firewall on there so I won't be able to broadcast from work. And though I'm done with the Top Ten Of The Week, I'm still hearing tunes on a daily basis.
Some things in the player
Len Price 3-Pictures
New Pornographers-Together
Hold Steady-Heaven Is Whenever
Asia-Omega
Pablo Cruise-Want You Tonight
Jason & The Scorchers-Halcyon Times
Saliva-Survival Of The Sickest
Willie Nelson-Family Bible
Bobby Darin-If I Was A Carpenter
and Rhino's Children Of Nuggets compliation that the kind dude at FYE gave me at a discount.
