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42 theeastnashvillian.com January|February 2018 Psych-out Far Out Fest co-founder Kari Leigh Ames soaks up the sun The Soul at home in East Nashville. The AnAlogue AficionAdo CURATING photographed by Ben Blackwell rocks Travis Commeau THE the primary colors of photographed by OFActor/musician WITT Alicia Witt finds Travis Commeau Frontier The Vibe her people in East Nashville Vinyl By Nicole Keiper Music advocate Kari Leigh Ames sets the Ben Blackwell, Third Man’s resident ‘psychedelic stage for creativity, from behind the scenes and recording to it, it became hard to imagine it ver a 30-odd-year career, Alicia stooge,’ steers the label’s vinyl ship any other way.” Witt’s been a lot of things: a cos- The delicate dance of leaning in and stepping mic, glowing-eyed “abomination” in by rittney McKenna back is one Witt’s had to become adept at, as she by Theresa Laurence b Dune; a zombie-bashing badass in juggles set time and studio time, Hollywood and OThe Walking Dead; a honey-voiced country superstar Nashville. On Sept. 9, she wraps a quick EP release Third Man clearly casts a wide net, releasing eclectic music in a - Ames gets ample vibe-curation time with Far Out on Nashville. tour with a hometown show at Nashville’s City s he leads a relaxed yet highly informative tour of ven if you’ve never met Kari Leigh Ames - range of genres, prioritizing the quality of the music over the poten Fest, created alongside Brianne O’Neill. The festival The first two: bit of a stretch. The latter role, of Winery, then jets off to Connecticut to start film Third Man Records’ downtown headquarters, it’s clear personally, there’s a good chance you’ve Christmas tial for chart-busting sales. “If we’re excited about it, we’re probably draws musicians and visual artists from around the singer Autumn Chase, let Witt pull from her own ing a new Christmas movie, Hallmark’s Eastwood Neighbors resident and vinyl expert Ben encountered some of her handiwork going to get other people excited about it,” Blackwell says. country, and along with offering psychedelic music, experience: About as long as she’s been an actress, - on Honeysuckle Lane. Blackwell is in his element. around town. As Third Man’s Nashville emporium has evolved, and grown to- art installations, and more (Far Out’s second iteration, the now-East Nashvillian has been making mu “And I just got back from [New York] where I “It’s second nature to me, being here since day one,” A real estate agent by day, Ames spends her a staff of 28 employees, Blackwell’s role has changed, but it isin hosted earlier this year, featured an accompanying film sic, growing up as a classical piano prodigy, and was filming an indie movie for five weeks,” she says he says, sharing musician, producer and label head Jack free time as a fierce advocate of Nashville’s tentionally fluid. Like all Third Man employees, Blackwell created E festival at Third Man Records), the team also uses the expanding into pop singing and songwriting — a of Modern Persuasion, a modern adaptation of Jane A White’s musical wonderland, a hub that includes offices, his own title: “psychedelic stooge,” an homage to his all-time favorite music scene: She co-founded Far Out Fest, a psychedelic event to promote the potential healing properties of career that’s grown alongside her IMDB resume. Austen’s novel Persuasion. “In May, I also filmed an a storefront and “novelties lounge,” photo studio, and the famed “Blue Revisionary History, in Lore, for Amazon, band,The Stooges. music festival that launched in 2017, and started “mul- properly used psychedelic substances. Ames says they’ll Witt issued her first LP, episode of the anthology series Room” venue. In reality, Blackwell serves as the in-house vinyl expert, overseeing timedia kinetic light show” Labrys, performing at ven- introduce a recycling component to the festival in 2015, produced here in Nashville by piano-pop in Prague, and I combined that with filming two Day One was back in 2009, in a little less “It City” incarnation of “most everything we do that touches vinyl records.” He coordinates 15,000 Days, - ues across the city and touring with acts like local band 2019, too. hero Ben Folds. Her latest release, EP music videos for my EP. So far it’s been an effort Nashville — back before this yellow and black spectacle of a building manufacturing with United Record Pressing in Nashville and Third Ttotals. She also DJs at Nashville’s freeform community “Since Far Out Fest is run primarily by women, we’re is another Nashville creation, helmed by Grammy- less balance. I find I need music to feel centered regularly hosted some of the biggest names in the music business Man Pressing in Detroit, and keeps an eye on the distribution of radio station, WXNA, and volunteers at the tuned in to the hospitality vibe really hard,” she says. winning producer Jacquire King (who’s workedEast when I’m acting, and I also depend on the specific (from Jerry Lee Lewis to The Shins), before it was embedded in the Third Man’s vinyl records, whether wholesale or direct-to-customer. Teens Rock Camp. “We really try to make it worthwhile for the guests and with Kings of Leon, James Bay, and onetime catharsis of acting to balance out the catharsis of fabric of Music City. And of course, most everything Third Man does touches vinyl in Though Ames, who was born in Michigan but moved- make the venues really happy, but also treat the artists Nashvillian cover stars Moon Taxi, among many songwriting. So that part is cool, too.” When White opened his Third Man storefront in Nashville, some way. to Nashville during her formative years, is a trained vi really well. From my time in the music industry, I’ve other bold names). East Nashville, conveniently, has helped provide Blackwell and business partner Ben Swank were the operation’s only “We did a Margo Price release that was cassette-only, something sual artist, her heart keeps leading her back to work in seen a lot of mistreatment of artists. I’m really trying to “They were such different experiences, but equally some added balance. on-the-ground employees. special just for the U.K. I believe. Besides that, I can’t recall any other and around music. It’s a passion she in part attributes - bring a platform to all of these people.” thrilling,” Witt says of those two Nashville-made “I had loved East Nashville for a while,” Witt “Ben and I were doing everything,” Blackwell says, conjuring release we’ve done that has not had a vinyl component,” Blackwell to her family: Her father, Mike Waldron, is a success Ames also donates five percent of her real estate projects. Both producers had a major effect on the says, “and had always found time to spend here a Third Man shop that was assuredly not the highly polished and says, whether it’s a live Dinosaur Jr. recording from Third Man’s Blue ful local bandleader who has worked with Lee Ann - commission earnings to Tennessee Teens Rock Camp, resulting songs, she says, Folds playing drums, bass, when I was in town before. So when I was here meticulously curated showplace it is now. “We were running the store Room or a reissue of ’50s and ’60s gospel music. Revisionary History, and Nashville, I knew I Womack and Martina McBride, while her stepmoth which she says “encourages kids to be themselves,” and and “lots of guitar” on in 2016 working on the show like a merch table — cash only, no tax, no receipts.” - Vinyl sales may be dwarfed by digital music sales overall, but vinyl er, Marcia Ramirez, currently sings backup vocals for reminds her to “destroy the cool,” a catchphrase the King spearheading a thick, layered aesthetic full of wanted to find a place to rent over here. I ended If he had to venture a guess about what the Music Row estab remains the most popular physical format for music sold today — Christopher Cross. camp uses to encourage teens to follow their loops and ’80s keyboard tones. up finding my now dear friend Fran [Patton]’s lishment thought of Third Man back then, “I’d imagine folks would CD sales have dropped off by 90 percent since their 2000 peak, while “I never really was interested in being in the music without fear of how others might perceive them. “I felt so honored to have him producing,” Witt guest house, and through Fran I met this incredible think that we’d just putter along for a few years before eventually and vinyl has gone in the distinctly opposite direction. In 2009, when industry as a professional musician, the way my parents “I don’t like dealing with people who are too cool for says of King. “I really stepped back in terms of what infrastructure of dear friends who are like family unceremoniously closing up shop.” Third Man opened shop in Nashville, 2.5 million vinyl units were and most of my friends are,” Ames says. “But I felt I had- a school,” Ames says. “I like people who are authentic and I imagined the tracks sounding like, for the most now — just a real sense of, ‘Oh. My people.’ East Now, says Blackwell, who relocated from Detroit to East Nashville sold in the U.S. Last year: 14.3 million. unique understanding of the industry, and felt very com genuine and passionate, and aren’t acting like you’ve part, and let him take the reins. For example, on Nashville feels like home in a way nowhere else ever the same year Third Man’s home base opened, “I think we’re viewed as Blackwell doesn’t see that changing any time soon. fortable in those scenes because I grew up watching my been bestowed with a gift from God by having their ‘Blinkers,’ I never would have imagined that groove has, and I feel so proud and blessed to live here.” the only people in town smart enough to have signed Margo Price.” “No one is falling in love with CDs the way they are with vinyl,” - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, parents backstage at concerts. … I think I like to be curat presence as part of your event. I don’t dig that.” on it. But once I started listening to it in the studio The label issued Price’s breakout debut, he says, predicting that CDs will eventually go the way of the 8-track All American Made), and contin - ing the vibe, but not necessarily the center of attention.” in 2016 (and its 2017 follow-up, tape and laserdisc. - ued to build a roster of outsider country artists with crooner Joshua As Third Man grows and expands its reach, Blackwell will con Catch Alicia Witt in Nashville Hedley’s Mr. Jukebox album, and multi-instrumentalist and vocalist tinue to steer the vinyl ship, becoming ever more firmly rooted Catch Kari Alicia Witt celebrates the release of 15,000 Days on Lillie Mae Rische’s Forever and Then Some. in Nashville. Boarding House Reach (which led vinyl Sept. 9 in The Lounge at City Winery Nashville, 609 This year brought White’s “We definitely feel more integrated now than when we opened,” Tune in to Kari Leigh Ames, a.k.a. DJ Karl, during “Acid Altar” on Tuesdays, 3-4 p.m. on Nashville’s WXNA, 101.5 FM. For more on Far Out Fest, visit: Lafayette St. Doors at 5 p.m., advance tickets $15 sales in the U.S. for the first half of the year), along with an album he says, “while still operating on the margins of the traditional music faroutnashville.com nashvillian.com 8 7 (the show was close to sellout at press time, September | October 2018 theeast from stoner-metal legends Sleep, and a reissue of Captain Beefheart’s industry that drives this town.” check citywinery.com/nashville for the latest). Trout Mask Replica on vinyl, pressed at Third Man’s Detroit location.

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more than it is now,” Colladay says. “You become aware of it because f Country Music Hall of Fame’s Brenda Colladay were travel- you watch it disappearing before your eyes.” ing the world and fighting Nazis in pursuit of precious country Roll your eyes, but this is another story about a changing Nashville, Indiana Jones metaphor for a mo- music artifacts (go with the because Colladay’s work has been to remind Nashville and its visitors ment), there would be no giant, trying to crush of where it came from. I her. She would not have switched a golden idol with a bag of Starting at the Opry and later, the Ryman Auditorium, Colladay sand, and therefore would not be running toward a river trailed by a established, organized, and expanded their collections while working swarm of poison darts. Rather, the longtime East Nashvillian would on books, videos, and with the artists themselves to cement legacies be commissioning geologic surveys of the cave system. She would be and establish histories. Most impressively, she did it by herself — an THE WORLD living in the local village to understand its culture. She would license army of one. photos from the bullwhip manufacturer. After overseeing the remodel of the Ryman’s tour materials in 2014, “It’s not really about the objects,” Colladay, former museum and - she left the following year, working on a MississippiCountry museum Music for (to Marty be photo curator for Ryman Hospitality Properties and now the vice pres Stuart, advising the Ken Burns documentary ident of museum services at the Hall, says. And it’s not even about the- released in the fall of 2019), and researching the Aubrey Preston-led ACCORDING TO artists themselves: “It’s about making sure that we are getting the sto restoration of RCA Studio A. ries down,” she says, “that we are expanding the stories so that it’s more “Her work ethic is amazing,” says friend and longtime colleague Sally complete, so that we’re really understanding the history of the places.” Williams, Opry Entertainment senior VP. “All of her knowledge about On May 1, Colladay assumed her new role with the Hall, in which country music translates to stories, not only accurate but engaging.” she oversees its collections and exhibitions, its writing and editorial Despite these projects, Colladay never settled into the freelance life: staff of 30, and a massive library and digital archive. Her job now, as it “I’m someone who has somewhere to be at all times my entire life, was with the Grand Ole Opry during her Ryman tenure, is not to track so that unsettled, unanchored feeling was hard for me to enjoy,” she down obscure doodads from country music’s early days or beg Tim says. The near-daily emails from LinkedIn were by and large a waste of McGraw for an old pair of jeans. Colladay’s job is to tell stories. She’s time, but the Hall position kept popping up. Friends from within the done just that for the length of her career. organization messaged her about it. And finally, the call came from an In one sense, Colladay, a Kansas native, has come full circle with her eventual boss, then-senior VP for museum services Carolyn Tate. current employer. Moving to Nashville in May 1993 with then-partner Colladay joins a museum that, by any metric, is in strong health. and now-husband Chuck Mead of BR549, her second internship was Since its move downtown in 2001, it currently sees more than one with the CMHoF. A Middle Tennessee State University grad student million annual visitors and maintains national accreditation for studying public history with an emphasis in museum studies at the excellence. Her goals center around programming that engages Margo time, she hoped her summer temp position would turn full-time after Nashville locals, both native and adopted, who have never crossed the graduation. It didn’t. museum’s threshold. - At that point, the tiny museum — “a post-modern glass barn” on “When people move to Nashville and aren’t really aware of the his Music Row — didn’t have the funding. But the space was magical even tory of the city and of country music, I would hope that they visit the then. Colladay remembers coming across Hank Williams’ old ID from Hall of Fame to understand how important it is,” she says. “Cities all his days as an Alabamian shipbuilder. over the world are creating fake things to draw people, and Nashville That type of history wasn’t just in the Hall; it was Nashville itself. has this amazing identity that has served it well. It’s important to Demonbreun Street, now a strip of Midtown bars, was then a row of preserve those things that make Nashville unique. Otherwise we just museums dedicated to foundational artists like , George become Anytown, U.S.A.” Jones, and Barbara Mandrell. “The history was within the city a lot Colladay in the life Further studies Price Country Music Hall of Fame VP of The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s current major exhibits include Outlaws & Armadillos: museum services Brenda Colladay feels Country’s Roaring ’70s, Ralph Stanley: Voice From on High and The Judds: Dream Chasers, right at home in East Nashville. which just opened in August. For information on those and other exhibits and events, head to photographed by countrymusichalloffame.org. Travis Commeau nashvillian.com 5 9 September | October 2018 theeast

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