MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY

WRITER’S BLOCK By Vernell Hackett   YOUNG ASKED TO BE MEMBER OF GRAND OLE…

Only Nashville could host an extraordinary event like the Americana Music Festival and Conference. Austin has South By Southwest (simply abbreviated to “South By” by its many veterans… and here in Nashville you do run into quite a few), and New York and L.A. have a monopoly on practically everything else. Yet when you’re talking Americana, you’re talking country, blues, Gospel and R&B, where else can you host an event that gives such nods to tradition?