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East Side Storytellin’ 12: Where writers read, sing, and eat their great uncles with a side of Red Beets for dinner outdoors.

  Tuesday, April 16th was one for the ages for myself and I know I wasn’t alone.  In fact, I would dare to say that it being the first ever East Side Storytellin’ outdoors – coupled with the fact that it was the ultimate combination of wordsmiths, local historians, and music players & appreciators – […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 11- Laughter the day after April Fools

I figured awhile ago that kicking off my favorite month, for personal reasons of course, of April surrounding myself with some people that would make me laugh and my heart to smile would be the best thing I could do.  It just so happened that I knew exactly who to call for said mission within […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 10: Words by Barry Mazor, music by Paul Burch, and the spirit of Jimmie Rodgers

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013, marked a very interesting night in Nashville.  Over at Fat Bottom Brewing Co., I was fortunate yet again to be in the middle of some of the most amazing, talented people in and around Nashville.  I mean, c’mon, when and where else can you be around a writer that has been […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 9: Attack of the Red-Headed Music City Muses

On March 5th, 2013, I felt very fortunate and blessed.  The good people of Fat Bottom Brewing Co., after talking it over and listening to me a time or two explain what I intended to bring to their party with that of East Side Storytellin’, gave me the invitation to celebrate a new chapter in […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 8: When Sewanee left the mountain for the city

On February 19th, 2013, a very special gathering that had been in the making for a few months, possibly since last Summer before East Side Story was a reality, occurred at Rumours East and it was an absolute blast.  With the help of April Alvarez, Coordinator for the Sewanee School of Letters program, she managed […]

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BOOK ME! continues to grow by the day

Last week, we had a very BIG day at East Side Story that I already told you about HERE.  I dared to even call it a HUGE day at East Side Story.  Well, the very next day after I posted about the BIG HUGE day, I had yet another BIG BIG day happen at the […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 7 – Alice Randall and Jonathan Sexton … enough said.

WOW!  That’s about the only word I could come up with after leaving Rumours East on the night of Tuesday, February 5th, 2013, and experiencing the first-time meeting between Alice Randall and Jonathan Sexton.  If you weren’t lucky enough to be in the crowd sharing that wonderful evening with me, you are lucky to be […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 6 – Where fine wine and amazing women met

Yeah, I said it.  East Side Storytellin’ 6, aka the night of January 22, 2013 where Barbara Nowak and Julie Lee first met, was just that … where fine wine and amazing women met.  I knew from the first reply from Julie about a month and a half before the night happened when she excitedly […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 5 with Cary Graham and Jenny & Tyler … OH, what a night!

On Tuesday, January 8th, I truly experienced a night like no other.  At 6pm, I left East Side Story with new art prints made by Alex in tow in order to make my way over to Rumours East to get fully prepared. I knew that Tom would be there with equipment in hand, but I […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 4 – JT & Crackerboots – 12/18/12

December 18th might not mean a lot to a lot of people other than 3 days before the failed Mayan apocalypse, but it meant a great deal to me.  In fact, it was the closest thing I’ve ever had to Christmas come early with the exception of the time that my family took our Christmas […]