http://sarahpopejoy.com/blog.html Sarah Popejoy: Blog Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:49:24 -0700 http://sarahpopejoy.com/blog.html/pearls_from_nashville Today I was listening to “shuffle” on my ipod and the song “I am a Town” by Mary Chapin Carpenter came up. As I was getting lost in the poetry of one of my old favorites, I started to remember a show I was at watching Don Schlitz at the Bluebird Café (Don for a dollar was the name of his show)from when I lived in Nashville. He performs songs he’s helped write. They’re hits most country and non-country fans have heard like “The Gambler” by Kenny Rogers and “I Feel Lucky” by Mary Chapin. During a break in his show, I got to talk with him and I expressed how much I loved Mary Chapin’s album “Come On Come On,” a cd which he contributed several co-writes to on the album. He started to tell me this story about how Chapin had called him after she had just written “I am a Town,” and she had played it over the phone to him. He began to reminisce as though he was taking me back to that brief period of time and transporting me to the conversation. What was funny is I had just written “ Southern Road” a song inspired by “I am a Town” and “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road.” Both songs “take you on a drive” far from your present location the way a great novel does. Don told me about how he was blown away by the Carolina small town song, when hearing it for the first time over the distorted echoes of a land line phone. I felt like I had been given this gem witnessing secondhand this moment between two great writers. When his eyes had given up their distant gaze and his mind had flown back to the dimly lit bar plastered with old head shots, he paused for a second and went back to his stage.

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