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Larry Bleiberg
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Music, parties and food attract crowds to the booming Nashville
Nashville It seems to be on everyone's bucket list lately. The metropolitan area, which increased from 1.6 million to nearly 2 million between 2010 and 2020, also attracted a record number of visitors before the pandemic.
And good reason: Most nights, when a bachelor party or other cheerful person comes down to Honky-tonk on the Lower Broadway, the city beats. Meanwhile, the Nashville tractor pulls a trailer that transforms the streets of the city into an outdoor party. Other visitors can watch the show at the Grand Ole Opry, pay homage to the Country Music Hall of Fame, explore the trendy shops of East Nashville, and rush to famous venues such as the Bluebird Cafe. I catch up-and-coming singer-songwriters.
city in Nashville, Tennessee continues to share new national African-American music with Woolworth on the 5th. Expanded its charm at the museum. A restaurant that preserves the place of sit-in for early citizenship.
Other eateries include the Rolf and Daughters, whose chef was named James Beard finalist in 2022, and the Loveless Cafe, known for biscuits, country ham, and red-eye gravy. There are standard restaurants such as. Prince's hot chicken shack, where the spicy Nashville epidemic has begun.
You need to book in advance a room in a spot such as the 21C Museum Hotel, which is part of an artistic hotel group with carefully selected exhibits. And there is always an elegantly renewed Hermitage Hotel that first opened in 1910.
A musical icon found in Florence decades ago, travelers still follow
. Florence, Alabama and three other neighboring cities, collectively known as Shoals, have many of the attractions of Music City, even in the absence of traffic and congestion. In fact, many studio musicians live here and choose to commute to Nashville for gigs.
Centered around the Tennessee River in northwestern Alabama, the region is best known for its recording studios, Muscle Shoals Sound in Sheffield, and the fame of the neighboring Muscle Shoals. increase. Icons such as The Rolling Stones, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin made the music.
Both studios offer tours and can be touching with Muscle Shoals Sound. "I've seen a grown-up man cry when he steps into the studio," said Judy, wife of bassist David Hood, one of the legendary swampers he heard in many of the songs recorded there. Hood says.
We often find bands in places like Frobama in Florence and the restaurant bar Rattle Snake Saloon. Overhanging cliffs of Tuscumbia.
Tuscumbia also has an Alabama Music Hall of Fame, with exhibits such as the Alabama band's walk-through tour bus in honor of stars such as Hank Williams Sr.
Like Nashville, Shoals have a charm that goes beyond music. Florence is a university town with an artistic atmosphere. Fashion designers Billy Reed and Natalie Chanin both live and have stores here. The latter offers a few days of self-designing workshops. There is also the Rosenbaum House, a cozy Frank Lloyd Wright building for tours.
Just outside the town is Tom's Wall, an amazing environmental art. Created by the late Tom Hendricks for over 30 years, this approximately 1.6 km long stone fence winds through a pine forest. It honors his great-grandmother, Native American, who was forced to leave Alabama on her trail of tears, but missed her home as she returned from Oklahoma.
In Tuscumbia, you can see Helen Keller's birthplace, Ivy Green, and Anne Sullivan sees a pump with the letters w-a-t-e-r in the hands of a deafblind student. I can do it. It will gain international fame as a defender of the disabled.
There's more than a barbecue on the local menu, but it's also available. John Currence, a renowned chef in Oxford, Mississippi, runs the outpost of his Big Bad Breakfast Cafe, which lives up to his name. Odette offers produce and meat sourced from nearby farms and pours from the highly acclaimed and extensive list of bourbons.
To call it night, check in at one of the boutique hotels in Florence. Gun Runner has a large open lounge and 10 theme suites. Or try the Stricklin Hotel, a refurbished retail building with a vintage-style bowling alley in the basement.
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