It was a long and chilly cold New Years weekend shooting Nashville Wild Child. The somewhat depressing sight of my old friend, Vernon Rust, living in his car beside a Walmart in Nashville was depressing. Vernon was disheveled, had not shaved in a while, and stinking of alcohol and body odor when we caught up to him.
Although he has a new single, A Lot More Jesus, out now on Amazon.com, he is at least six weeks away from receiving any remuneration from it.
I don't usually like large crowds, but juxtaposed against the gritty, mean, environment where we found Vernon and his friend, Helen, it was a relief to get into a large, more upscale crowd. We went downtown and recorded some of the traditional New Year's festivities, Nashville Style. Southern Rockers, Lynyrd Skynyrd closed out an evening of performances at the end of Broadway in Nashville. Then the lighted guitar drops down the scaffolding, and fireworks erupt. Skynyrd came back on stage for a rousing 15 minute Free Bird encore.
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