Nashville?

[Swordfishtrombone]

So I'm gonna be moving there at the end of May to help out a disabled friend. Well, I'll be like just west of Nashville. Once I'm settled in and stuff, what's around for me to do? I know nothing about the city other than that it's the capitol of twangy pop/country. She doesn't know much about what's there for me to do since it's a massive challenge for her to even leave her house, so she's not very helpful here. I'm probably gonna need about a month or two to get settled in, get a state ID/drivers license and a job, but after that I'd like to maybe do things on the rare occasions that I do venture outside for fun and stuff.

What do you got for me, fuzz bros?

[SPACERITUAL]

Its kinda whatever.... gruhns guitars is right down the street from a really decent bottleshop/taproom. I bought cowboy boots in a reeeallly trendy gentrified part of town.... local beer there kinda sucks. People are nice from what i saw. they get shows occasionally.

[neonblack]

I'm hoping to catch Savages and Head Wound City there next month. And some good ILFolk live near Nashville.

[Swordfishtrombone]

Gonna have to check out gruhns guitars. I've never been into beer to the point where I'm into local/craft breweries or anything like that. Just really care that it tastes alright and gets me drunk lol, so that's not a problem.

Yeah, I probably won't be in a situation where I can see bands and stuff until mid summer once I'm settled in and employed. Hopefully some locals can chime in about any good venues/localish bands, places to hang out, etc, and maybe even to hang out sometime or something. Normally don't do stuff like that, but since I'm gonna be in a new area + have a roommate and stuff, it might be worth trying to change that up lol.

[popvulture]

Is Murfreesboro still the sort of non-country hub for music/artsy fartsy types? I know it was, but it might be overtaken now, seeing that Nashville's going through a sort of mega yuppification ala Austin (or at least I hear). Curious.

[ThurberMingus]

Free Throw is a decent emo band from Nashville. Played a show or two with them. Good guys.

Cigarettes are super cheap there. Cheapest I can remember cigarettes being when I used to go on tour.

[Jero]

Gruhns has all sorts of cool guitars. Anything from Nelsons to Dan Armstrong's and beyond.

[Swordfishtrombone]

Good to know about cheap cigarettes. I typically roll my cigarettes, but I do like to splurge on a pack occasionally.

That's cool to know about gruhns. Definitely gonna have to check them out now .

And yeah, I'm curious to see what the people are like too. She says that the area she's in is made up of uni students + church types, and is pretty diverse, which is nice to hear. Especially the whole uni students thing, since that means there'll be a lot of people around my age to meet once settled in. Interested in Nashville as a whole tho. The only thing I know is what I said in OP + a few vague things from when my family visited when I was like 12, but that was mostly driving around and looking at touristy crap + visiting the Grand Ole Opry mall, which was cool. There was a music store in there, and some group of people were having a bluegrass jam in there.

I am excited about this tho, and you guys are definitely making the excitement worse. Thankd for the replies, dudes!