"And The Nights Were Perfect, Too" - A Silver Jews Podcast Season 1 Ep. 06 :: "You're The Only Ten I See/ Tony Crow" (Pt. 1)

You know, Nashville is, as you very well know and, and, and myself as well, you know, it's, it's changed so much over the years to say the least.

Um-

Well, I, I've been here over 50 years, so-

Yeah, yeah

...

when I, when I got, when I moved to town, my Da- well, we worked at Sealtest.

We were at the dairy So I, I kinda grew up, you know, out edge of lake and had bands that were kind of garage bands and such, you know, in high school, and then stayed here.

My parents split up, Mom stayed here and went to Vanderbilt, so I stayed here too, and then, uh, just continued on.

I'd, I'd get a restaurant gig until I got a, you know, playing gig, and then, then, then quit the restaurant.

And then found out, you know, 30 years later all I really needed to know how to do is cook, so go figure that one out.

I don't know.

But, uh, yeah.

So [laughs] kinda, I kind of, I, I kind of fell into it.

And, and as far as Nashville changing, the tourists were afraid to go downtown back then.

[laughs] Yeah.

Uh, and now they run the place.

Yeah, now they basically, you know.

Yep, yep.

[laughs] It's, it's, it's tourists and Waymo kind of running the whole operation around here now, so.

[laughs]

I had a buddy, you know, uh, uh, Jay Vern, who I've known forever, say, "You know, we're not in the music business anymore.

We're in the tourism industry." [laughs] I thought, "Man, I don't wanna be in the tourism industry." [laughs]

Man, that's like the, like the Twin Peaks version of Nashville.

It's-

[laughs]