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Preview of Preserving Nashville's Soul, with Lorenzo Washington
It was difficult trying to choose the opening quote for this week's episode. My guest Lorenzo Washington articulated a handful of beautiful passages. So I thought I'd put the 'short list', as it were, together here. Let's call it a preview of ep.259, The Jefferson Street Sound: Preserving Nashville's Soul with Lorenzo Washington. One of my favourites.
Title slide: Lorenzo and I outside the Museum after our chat (pic: Olivia Cheng).
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If I see a person, especially an older person, in need, although I'm an older person.
Lorenzo:Now I was going to say I have a rise, but the way I look at it, you know, I don't feel you know that older person you know. So I'm still looking to help See Marion James. And these older artists were still living. Yeah, yeah, you know, most of them has died out since I started the museum. Yeah, yeah of them passed. Then I said I've got to do it now in order to keep their legacy going, even with the African American Museum downtown, I went down and told some of my story and they brought a whole busload of their people here to learn my stories and I didn't think I had any stories worth telling that meant anything until I started doing interviews and I'm not a good interviewer.
Lorenzo:I tell folk in a minute. I'm not great at interviewing at all. I tell folk in a minute. I'm not great at interviewing at all. I just tell my story and hope you take it like it's presented to you. You know, from the heart, and it's all about the stories. You know what folk want to hear.
Lorenzo:When they come in this little museum they look at the pictures. But how does it relate to what took place on Jefferson Street? My stories Now a couple of my friends. One of them bought him a new Corvette, one of them a Lexus and one of them lives in one of these tall and skinnies overlooking downtown. Now I say that could have been me.
Lorenzo:Yes, exactly, I could have afforded that at one time, you know, but I chose to grind it out here in this little museum. I decided that I was not going to allow the legacy of these great artists and musicians, and especially the ones that didn't make it to stardom. I was not going to let them down. You know, I was going to do something to keep their heads held high, and that's what I did with this little museum, because now it's being known around the world, not just here in Nashville. Well, the piece now that goes out is back in the day that Marian James sung and it's about Jefferson Street Brilliant. We've been listening to Marian since we were here on Saturday, but you hadn't heard this one on Marian back in the day and it sings about the clubs.
Lorenzo:Let me see if I can come up with something here just to give you a quick descriptio, righ?
Marion James:¶¶ of Nashville, tennessee that's history on a road named Jefferson Street. Back in the day, that was all the gold Gateway, jefferson Street, jazz and blues. That is the road oh I've been jealous of. You could stop at Good Jelly John. You can get a little moonshine and wine and it's close. You can slide on in there. Have a good time time. Back in the day, that was all the gold. Jefferson Street, jazz and blues. That is the road. Back in the day. Back in the day, back in the day, back in the day, back in the day. Oh Lord, that was all ago.
