We like country music afterall…
If Louisville was Mos Eisely, then Nashville was the equivalent to the capital city of Naboo (if we are continuing the star wars theme). Yeah the weather sucked, but it truly was a great city even for people who don’t love country music. That said, we’d both go see Carrie Underwood any day of the week. And who knew that Nashville had such great arcitecture inspired by the Greeks?
That Greek Building in Nashville
We were here to see the Nashville Sounds Triple A baseball team. The Blue Jays catcher, JP Arencibia, is a native of Nashville and I asked him via twitter about the place. He said “awesome city, the baseball stadium is awful though”. Oh. Well, we enjoyed ourselves. We stumbled upon a double header which coincided with $1 hot dog day and we did our best to ‘camel up’ for the evening ahead. Don’t remember the scores, but the Sounds won the first game. Anyway, the stadium was pretty basic – but we did love the scoreboard:
Number 5: “Strummin’ my pain with ma scoreboard”, Nashville Tennessee.
This aint no banjo
We celebrated our good fortune by going for ribs and then persuading not one, but two local country music bands to abandon the regular ‘request’ list and to play Manchester‘s finest anthem – ‘Wonderwall‘. As you can see, one lead singer seemed happier than the other about this prospect:
Through gritted teeth
Megan Happy with Wonderwall
We got boo’d by the locals in one bar and emptied the place in the other. We will be remembered…obviously for the wrong reasons.
