Nashville Field Guide

Nashville selections, interviews, maps and essential intel. The Music City is changing, yet carries that same old tune.

LOCAL STORIES, TRAVEL INTEL AND MODERN LORE, INCLUDING:

An interview with Freedom Rider, Patricia Jenkins-Armstrong

The top meat-and-three lunch spots in town

Recommendations on live music joints

A longform essay by Ann Patchett about the flood

Novelist Tony Earley on East Nashville lore

Songwriter Rosanne Cash remembers a cold winter’s night

Record shop owner Mike Grimes on how the Music City is evolving

Varying reactions and reviews of Nashville hot chicken

Natural wonders within a few hours drive