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East Side Storytellin’ 14 – Where The2ndHand and East Side Story came alive

East Side Storytellin’ 14 was going to be something new for me.  It was the first show that I knew for sure that my loving and always supporting wife would not be attending because she was on a business trip of sorts.  The day of the show, May 21st, first appeared to be rocky and […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 13: Where Chuck found luck with the weather and fantastic music all around

  I normally don’t watch much of the weather or the radar unless I hear that strong winds will keep my wife up at night because we don’t have a storm shelter.  That said, I was paying extra attention to the forecast during the days leading up to Tuesday, May 7th.  We had already cracked […]

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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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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’ 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 […]

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East Side Storytellin’ 2 – River Jordan and Levi Weaver

It went down on Tuesday, November 20th.  It was not election night, but it was the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  Was I worried about nobody showing up?  The answer was not a chance!  We had our quota already RSVP’d by 6pm that night and we were set up and ready to go. Ready to go we […]