Thank you, William, for sharing your memories and your criticism of this unique city.

In 1977, I was able to sneak into a Nashville studio on Music Row, with the help of a sound-engineer friend, and record a record an album of my original songs, plus one Joni Mitchell song, "For the Roses."

While that album, "Something for Everyone; Songs of Rowland" has brought very little success here in the US, the Europeans have taken to it very well. The first song on that album is "Underground Railroad Rides Again."

So I suppose that Nashville underground runs all the way to the Atlantic, and then under the Atlantic (actually over the Atlantic via airlines) where Europeans are receiving inspiration by the bold brassy sounds of Bill Transley and Waldo Weathers, who suddenly showed up at the "Woodshed Recorders" studio to grace the underground railroad beats of my song, which was brought forth through Tom's engineering skill and Nashville's underground opportunities, back in the day, 1977.

And I suppose that, still, today, there is an "underground" Nashville that manages to cast amazing sound tracks into the world, despite the rebel history of those confederate states that surround that unique metropolis, especially the state of Mississippi, where I had grown up in the 1950's down on the south side of the Tennessee line.

Thanks for your memories. I hope you do not mind that I took this Medium opportunity to share a few Nashville memories of my own.