Day 17. #TeslaNashvilleRoadTrip

Nashville, Tennessee. Music row, Cheekwood and Radnor Lake.

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Started our day with a 90 minute tour of tourist Nashville in a golf buggy with a local guide. A grey morning with Tornado warning imminent. Almost cancelled our driver as the weather warning advised against going out. But we didn’t.

We learned some from our local driver, who did appear to be making stuff up.

In 2005 Nashville government contrived a 30 year plan. To rebrand it as Music City. Exploiting the Country music traditions. The Grand Ole Opry. The Ryman Auditorium. The recording studios where the legends like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson worked and recorded classics of country.

Commercial religious music ‘Christian Country’ was born here.

It took Nashville’s planners just ten years to see success after branding the area with ‘Music City’ names on every street. By 2015 Nashville was booming. Bachelorette parties abandoned Vegas for Nashville. There was live music on every corner. Alcohol. …