Nashville

Having just recently returned from Nashville I know that I can say at least one thing with authority. If you are thinking of driving somewhere much further away than there, DON'T. By the time you get there you will be hallucinating and your legs will be gone.

It was so unbelievably cold while we were there it made me re think how I feel about cold weather. I figured in the days leading up to it that hey, its the South therefore it doesn't get cold. Oh how wrong I was about that. There were a few days where it was warmer here in Easton than it was down there. Everyone down there said they couldn't remember any time while they had lived there where it was so cold for more than a day or two. It even snowed while we were there. Granted it was not alot of snow the schools were still closed for three days. The day before it snowed, the day it did, and the day after it snowed.

Other than that it was a pretty awesome trip. The night we got there we didn't have much to do as the person whose place we were staying at was at a hockey game. Ten rows off the ice for free. Absolutely don't blame him for that one. Anyway we walked around a little bit and saw a small bit of the city.

The next day we went and saw what we actually made the trek for. Third Man Records. Jack White's label. Now to get to third man records, you basically walk out of the city into the projects and between two run down houses and some trees is a black building. That's it. It's a very Jack White location. Why bother with nice things? To get into the building even though it was open the doors were locked. We had to ring some sort of doorbell and some nice lady came on and asked why we were there. Jake had no idea what to say and managed to get out we just wanted to see the store. Then the door opened. Once we got inside I was near certain Jake was gonna pass out. Much to my surprise he didn't. Managed to get lots of nice things related to everything John Anthony Gillis does. Pretty sure he bought everything in the store, where as I managed to walk away with only two shirts and a few stickers.

When we asked the ladies there if anyone comes there they said it depends on the day. I am 100% positive that is a lie. But that's ok. We got there and it was like heaven with a side of gold. The ladies there really didn't know anything about the White Stripes or anything. Which was kinda a shame since they have definitely met Jack White and I would pay to work at that store. Jake especially knows more about Jack White than he knows about himself. Guess there is always murder.

After that we just walked around in the tundra for a few hours to go see the Wooten brothers. Unfortunately the show looked 21+ so we couldnt get in. The next day we went and saw some other stuff like the Gibson store and some auto museum. Both were pretty sweet. Then the next day we came home which again took a cruel amount of time.

All in all it was a very good trip seeing as our only real motivation to go down was to see Third Man Records. It was cold but thats ok, separates the men from the boys.