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Big League Troubles The honeymoon is over for Predators and Titans fans

Break Time Everything in your home is going to fall apart—it's just a question of when

Continental Drift Vandy-area restaurant makes welcome transition from dingy Chinese buffet to brightly made-over sushi bar

Fresh off the Farm If you want to eat local and organic, now's the time to sign up with an area CSA

Shots

Village People Building on Belcourt will sit empty no longer, thanks to Sunset group

What They Drive BMW and Lincoln define luxury on their own terms

 

 

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In Their Right Minds Even if Hearts & Minds didn't change public opinion about Vietnam, it remains an outspoken document of a troubling time

Insane Incarceration Tennessee juries don't buy the insanity defense, so the mentally ill are often imprisoned—housed but not necessarily helped

Inside the Outlaw A spate of recent DVDs from America and abroad spotlight the gangster

Love And Hate Mail Yeah, we reported that

Manitoba Swing Canadian string band The Duhks fuse diverse sounds to make bracing new music

Not Your Father's Opry Star The irrepressible Jeannie Seely takes on a role in Eve Ensler's play about all things female

Off Limits

Pages of Paint Bay Area artist and illustrator combines words and abstraction in books and paintings

 

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SCOOTER SKAMP, street musician, songwriter, the Next Big Thing

Photo by Eric England.

Where are you from? Las Vegas, Nev.

How long have you been in Nashville? Two days.

Well how's it going so far? Aw man, it's just great, really great. This place right here's got the best coffee right in my price range—a dollar—and I run into this guy who's gonna be in my group called the Kings and we're ready for Nashville. We're the Next Big Thing. Matter of fact, I'm switchin' to ASCAP tomorrow unless BMI apologizes to me.

How long have you been playing music? I got my first guitar when I was I was about 5 years old. My daddy used to play steel guitar for Hank Snow.

Met any women since you been in town? Naw man. I ain't got time for 'em. I got to do my music and God. But I will let 'em come up and touch my hand.

Any advice for the lonely? Loneliness will kill ya. Read the Bible, man, the whole Bible. That's all you need—everything else will fall together.

Who's your favorite president? God Bless George W. Bush. I voted for the man in the interest of national security. I think they ought to make George W. Bush the president indefinitely and hold the next election until we get rid of all these terrorists. That's what I think. I want to play USO shows for George W. Bush and sing a song for him.