{"id":1460,"date":"2014-08-13T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:12:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:12:03","slug":"please-help-save-printers-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhayescountry.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE Help Save Printer’s Alley!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you are like me you moved here to bring your music and your songs to “Music City U.S.A.”
\nor you came here to study Country Music’s history.
\nPerhaps you came to study at one of it’s fine schools or to admire it’s
\nhistorical places and people.<\/p>\n

Country Music in a nutshell didn’t really originate here in Nashville.
\nSome say it started in Chicago…and somewhat that’s an accurate statement.
\nSome say it came from Appalachian regions of America and some say it came from
\n“nooks and crannies” of America or even churches and front porches.<\/p>\n

Wherever you personally claim or believe it came from it is up to US
\nto decide where it’s headed.
\nTHAT IS one of the reasons I started this website folks. I don’t make any
\nmoney off doing any of this, this all comes from my heart and my brain.
\nI don’t personally care if tens of thousands of people read my articles
\nI’ll write them as long as I’m alive…because I love to.
\nMy heart lies within Country Music and Nashville, and one piece of
\nNashville is in jeopardy and that why the page Save Printer’s Alley<\/a> is so crucial.<\/p>\n

To some fighting and preserving Country Music means analyzing pop country
\nand attacking it, or helping to promote those that do this.
\nTo some it means supporting local community and local bands and small
\nvenues working for tips.
\nWhatever your version of preserving Country Music MINE IS becoming involved
\nwith causes like this one.<\/p>\n

There is currently a political proposal that could close several businesses around
\nthe historical Printer’s Alley district of Downtown Nashville to make way for a new
\n“boutique” hotel.
\nThe four targeted buildings include the former Utopia Hotel building \u2014 which features
\nthe Downtown Cleaners and strip club Brass Stables as tenants \u2014 and the vacant space
\nabove the businesses. It also includes the buildings that house Lonnie’s Western Room
\nand Fiddle & Steel Guitar Bar on the Printers Alley side and the buildings that are home
\nto Taste of Italy Pizza, Santorini Greek Restaurant and Kebab Gyros on the Fourth Avenue side.<\/p>\n

The website says “progress” seems to be slowly erasing the very things that made
\nNashville the city that it is today…I AGREE!
\nI think Opry Mills ruined Opryland in it’s own right, I still patronize both places
\nbut if I had my choice Opryland would be here again.<\/p>\n