Nashville Lifestyles Magazine May 2020

We are living in strange times. I feel like I’ve said that every single day lately. I’ve barely left my house since Friday, March 13, and the irony is not lost on me. Someone said to me today, “Just make sure you don’t give up.” Fair enough. Trust, we are far from giving up. I realize that comment wasn’t meant to be offensive, but I want all of you to be very well aware that we aren’t giving up. Giving up would be the easier way to handle it. We haven’t given up. Instead, we are reinventing our May issue—this special edition focused on promoting recovery as a city. We are scheduling and rescheduling months of events in hopes that we can gather and celebrate each other. We want to continue to showcase the…

Nashville is my home. But I was born and raised in Florida, so I consider myself pretty fearless when it comes to weather. However, in the early hours of March 3, as I hunkered down with my husband and our dog watching a tornado on the ground head right for our community, all of my bravado was replaced with terror. When we got the all-clear and took a quick inventory of our East Nashville home, I saw that, debris aside, we had made it out unscathed. For a moment I teased myself, “See? Nothing to freak out over, Alison!” Then the text messages started. Friends living just a couple miles away were in dire straits. No power, no roof, no idea what to do. My husband is a music writer and nearly…

Over 40 years in music, new Nashville resident Lucinda Williams has earned the reputation of a scrappy roots-rock poet, more than willing to voice what’s on her mind—but she’s always looked inward for subjects to snarl at. That changes with Good Souls, Better Angels, her first album of what she describes as “protest” songs. Reuniting with producer Ray Kennedy more than 20 years after their landmark Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the artist turned to current events for inspiration and her childhood for a sound, steeping the album in hard-edged Delta blues and dissecting the daily news like a Vietnam-era Bob Dylan. “There are times when really horrible things are happening—like the coronavirus—but at the same time it brings us together. I’m writing to release something, hoping when other…

Bloody Mary Festival The highly anticipated Bloody Mary Festival is rescheduled for July 25, for guests to sample and vote on the best Bloodys in Nashville, at Track One. (Originally scheduled for March 14.) thebloodymaryfest.com/ Nashville-3-14-20 Nashville Fashion Week Nashville Fashion Week will now take place August 4 to 8 as the perfect, most fashionable way to close out the summer. (Originally scheduled for March 31-April 4). nashvillefashionweek.com Chihuly at Cheekwood Chihuly at Cheekwood is rescheduled to open on July 18, and will continue through January 10, 2021, where visitors can view the new, large-scale installations in the gardens of the estate. (Originally set to open April 25.) cheekwood.org Bonnaroo Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, packed with a highly anticipated lineup of performers, has been rescheduled for September 24 to 27. (Originally scheduled for June 11-14.) bonnaroo.com Mars…

A curly-haired Californian with a voice just as bright as her wardrobe, Cam took an unlikely path to country stardom in 2015, scoring a double-platinum radio hit with an abstract, thinking-fan’s ballad titled “Burning House.” And since then, she’s only leaned in to her unconventional style. A new album arriving this summer opens the much-anticipated second chapter of her story—and fans can rest assured, it’ll be just as unique as her introduction. “I don’t know how it is for other people, but from my perspective, having a hit that was so different only reinforced my drive to do things differently,” she says, speaking from her East Nashville home amid the COVID-19 quarantine, dogs barking and a baby girl cooing behind her. “I feel very confident in making decisions that make me happy,…

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler (St. Martin’s Press) In the quaint suburb of Oak Knoll, two families rush headlong toward disaster. Valerie is immediately put off by her new neighbors, the Whitmans, after they build an obnoxiously large home. When Valerie’s son and the Whitmans’ daughter, Juniper, start a secret romance, it sets in motion consequences neither family could predict. (Available now.) Lunch with Lucy by Sherry Stewart Deutschmann (An Inc. Original) In her first book, Nashville-based entrepreneur Sherry Stewart Deutschmann breaks down how she built LetterLogic, a $40 million company, by putting her employees—not customers or shareholders—first. One employee lunch at a time, Deutschmann learned what made each of her employees tick and what would help her company grow. Now she shares how to lead with humility and…