The Nashville we know today is a glitzy big business characterized
by entertainment lawyers, social media strategies, and buff, shiny
entertainers writing about pick-up trucks, tractors, and dirt roads
in air-conditioned, corporate offices. But, back before the coats
of glamour and media spotlights, Nashville was a very different
place. "The Storyteller's Nashville" is about a fabled town that
once was, but no longer exists. The Nashville that Tom T. Hall
wrote about -- the "hairy-legged town" where hungry, broke
musicians searched for their next meal, pill-popping pickers
scammed their next hit, and writers found art in moments of quiet,
solitary desperation - is the true foundation upon which today's
modern Music City rests. "The Storyteller's Nashville" is also
about a man whose songs irrevocably altered the history of that
same town as well as the music for which it remains best known.
And, while "The Storyteller's Nashville" is no longer an up-to-date
picture of Music City, it is a valuable window into the nature of
the art and creation during its formative days. In the early 1980s,
someone asked Johnny Cash what Nashville was really like. Cash
said, "Just read The Storyteller's Nashville by Tom T. Hall.
Everything you need to know is in there." Tom T. Hall is a Country
Music Hall of Famer for many reasons, including the hit songs he
wrote, his three decades as a popular entertainer, and the fact
that he and a wild-eyed pack of youngsters that included Kris
Kristofferson, Roger Miller, Mickey Newbury and John Hartford
elevated the language of country music from simple tales into
something akin to literature. The wondrous George Jones called Hall
"By far the all-time greatest songwriter/storyteller that country
music has ever had." Initially published in 1979, this revised and
expanded edition of The Storyteller's Nashville includes Tom T.
Hall's thoughts on the years after 1979: he shares his deep
friendship with Jimmy Carter; brings us Johnny Cash's thoughts on
humility; and reflects on the challenging confluences of celebrity,
art and the most dangerous addiction known to musicians: applause.
"The Storyteller's Nashville" is illuminating and hilarious, ribald
and touching and, above all, entertaining. It's Tom T.'s greatest
song and it's now longer. And even better.
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