I was having dinner with some friends at the 12 South Taproom & Grill, during which I get a tweet from @flashfest2010 about going to Mt. Richmore and assaulting John Rich’s gaudy new palatial estate with a barrage of light…

For more information on why anyone would do such a thing, visit the Nashville Scene.

Juvenile? Maybe. Powerful? Definitely. Before Twitter, how could a grass roots movement arise out of the dust within a matter of hours to combat rampant celebrity shmuckery? I wish I could have went, but I hadn’t seen these friends in quite a while and I didn’t want to leave them hanging.

One of these friends was Jeff Allen,
an amazing artist who you need to check out immediately.

After dinner, we headed over to the Cannery Ballroom to check out Randy Rogers Band featuring Wade Bowen, two of my most favorite Texas artists… You don’t spend the better part of 7 months in a van (like me) driving back and forth through Texas from gig to gig without picking up an affinity for Texas music.

The show was amazing. Randy Rogers and his band absolutely killed it. I ran in to a few friends I haven’t seen in a while and had a blast listening to some gritty, driving Texas country.

After that, our little crew headed on over to the Bridge Bar at Renaissance Hotel for the usual CRS week festivities. Music biz-types were out in abundance, glad-handing and networking like busy little bees, but it was still a really fun time. I got to reconnect with a lot of musician and business types that I haven’t seen in forever, as well as meet some really cool people (no name dropping allowed.)

CRS is going all week. Here are a few of the artists who will be playing and attending: Brad Paisley, Luke Bryan, Jason Michael Carroll, Bucky Covington, Jake Owen and Taylor Swift. Pretty cool event for all you Nashville music-types to go and check out.

So that was my night in Music City. If you’re not from here, it sounds pretty exciting. If you live in Nashville, then it’s business as usual.

That’s why I love this city so much.

Wanna move here yet?