He's a lumberjack, and he's ok...

I grew up in the Moonscape. The trees are younger than I am. And I learned IT, not mining.

Official Nashville stuff is hard to come by. Tidbits include:

1) Nashville is the BTL and simsense capital of the CAS.

2) Prostitution is legal in certain areas of Nashville due to a zoning issue. (News to me, but.)

3) The Church of Elvis is based in Nashville.

4) TN as a whole is a smuggling hub.

Not much beyond that. The CAS, as a whole, is a largely unexplored area. You have some Atlanta stuff, New Orleans, and some Texas stuff, but nothing on the rest. The governmental system doesn't quite work (1 rep per 15,000 citizens means that there are 400 representatives from Atlanta *alone*.) and it's kind of an afterthought.

Ha! I knew it! Elvis is the secret puppetmaster of the world!
However, the most scary thing most probably happens in Vegas: Elvish Impersonators.

That was very naughty, you should punish yourself...

It's also worth remembering that while Nashville is known for burgeoning country and pop music scenes, "Music City" means more than just that: there's also a thriving jazz community, and a very active hip-hop community. It's easy to monoculture a town like that, into just Grand Ole Opry and white folk eating roadkill, but it's also Cashville, Tennekeet, where people cook crack rock in glass jars and rap about it.

Kurdish Jazz? Kurdish Gangsta Rap?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW3-kAr_6qM



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37N5f4NWcw

Multiculturism!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNxYWvE_r-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu7ATeowtVo

As noted, the Athens of the South is pretty dang cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This.

Seriously.

It's how the Scots adapted to Canada, as even their tough bodies can't deal with a Canadian Winter in a kilt.

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Well, unless they have military training. Those bag pipers are INSANE!

I don't know about jazz, but yeah, there's a lot of great Kurdish hip hop.

Most of the session players used in the 60s and 70s for the majority of the country records were mostly jazz musicians, but could and would play anything. Not sure how it works these days.

There's good hip-hop to begin with?

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OK, Run DMC, but they're long gone now.

Yep. Quite a lot of it. Including things I suspect you'd enjoy greatly, whatever your tastes in music might be. Hip-hop's a pretty broad umbrella.

Nope. there is none I would enjoy. Too hip and too much hop.

In all candor, if you're basing your dislike on nothing more than commercial rap, you're doing yourself a disservice: in the same way that the best rock music isn't the stuff they play on the radio, the best hip hop isn't the stuff you hear from most commercial media outlets.

Besides, it's like saying, "I don't like any rock," or, "I don't like any folk." Those umbrellas are just too wide to make that generalization. I mean, unless you've actually heard all hip-hop. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Nope, they are not too wide. The traits that are common to all hip hop and define the genre I find very unpleasing to hear.

Hey, you'd know your tastes better than I would. I'd love to do 20 rounds of making sure you've heard it all - "Really? Not 'Building Steam With a Grain of Salt?' Not 'Pagina Tres?'" - but this probably isn't the venue. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I corrected myself with one group I liked. Not much else that I've seen/heard has really grabbed my attention or anything else. It's too... Refined by the time it gets to CDs.

I'd probably have to hit up Street Hip-Hop in order to get the feeling right. Like how Punk is. The emotion is there still.

You should try some Public Enemy. Chuck D is faboo, and FLava Flav *invented* the role of Hype Man.

But, I've been a rap fan since before Blondie broke the genre open for MtV, so.

or they're real men. I went to Catholic school in NY and no matter how cold the winter we were not allowed to wear sweats over our or under our uniform skirts getting to school. The drill was get within a block wearing sweats. take them off and run like crazy.

I met a New Yorker in College. He thought he was ready for a Canadian Winter as "He was a tough bastard from New YORK!".

Changed his tune the first week of December. "How the HELL do you people LIVE UP HERE?" "It's not even cold yet." "You FOLK ARE CRAZY!" "No, we're Canadians. Hard to tell the difference sometimes."

There's a country song by Luke Bryan- (Shake it for me) Country Girl. The girl in it is not dressed'country but in sort of an s&m outfit with knee high stiletto boots. My husband pointed out the out fit and girl dancing could be any video- just take out the pcik up truck and big tired, change the lighting and it could be hip hop- add some candles and smoke etc, the whole thing was so generic to be stupid.

And people wonder why I stopped liking new country songs in the 90s.

Add a sparkling Vampire... And it's still stupid. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)