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Cover Story
The Eighth Annual Country Music Critic's Poll
Published: January 24, 2008
For the Scene’s eighth annual Country Music Critics’ Poll, we asked working journalists from all over North America, from big-city newspapers and glossy magazines,...
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Letters
Love-Hate Mail
Published: January 24, 2008
Apples and orangesI think it is fascinating that the whole time that Eric Volz was asking for help from the local media, including the Scene, you never did a story about it. It...
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Words of the Week
Words of the Week
Published: January 24, 2008
“I request that as soon as practically and legally possible, Governor Bredesen empower the mayor with authority over MNPS and support legislative efforts to give...
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Features
Attorney General or House Keeper?
Tennessee’s top prosecutor makes a last-ditch attempt to keep an ailing and likely innocent man on death row
Sarah Kelley
Published: January 24, 2008
When a federal judge recently ordered the state either to retry or release Tennessee death row inmate Paul House, it appeared freedom finally was near for a man even the U.S....
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Features
Physical Education
When special-ed teachers seclude and restrain students, the state says no one needs to know
Elizabeth Ulrich
Published: January 24, 2008
Rob Zimmerman’s son Jack is the kind of smart, happy child who loved school. But two years ago, Jack’s dad says, that suddenly changed. When the now 11-year-old...
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The Fabricator
A Model for the Nation
Wilson County meth lab gets LEED certification
Published: January 24, 2008
An illegal meth lab in a nondescript Wilson County mobile home has been granted Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, the first such lab in the...
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Cover Story
Blonde Ambition
Carrie Underwood’s sold more records, so why did Miranda Lambert sweep our poll?
Geoffrey Himes
Published: January 24, 2008
They’re both attractive, 25-year-old blondes with powerful voices. They both made their reputations on TV talent shows, and they both released their debut albums in 2005...
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Cover Story
The Emmylou Harris Factor
Emmylou Harris’ fingerprints are all over this year’s Country Music Critics’ Poll.
Published: January 24, 2008
Consider these examples:1. Emmylou Harris herself won the best-reissue voting with her five-disc, 88-track retrospective, Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems.2. Miranda...
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Features
Just the Two of Us
The Wrights celebrate the long-awaited release of their new CD—and 10 years of togetherness
Chris Neal
Published: January 24, 2008
Adam and Shannon Wright first met on Jan. 15, 1998. She needed a guitar player for her gig at an Atlanta nightclub, and he was recommended to her. She gave him a call, and he...
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Features
Stable Pop
Band of Horses create stylized arrangements
Edd Hurt
Published: January 24, 2008
Ben Bridwell writes songs with odd gaps and leaps, and his group Band of Horses plays them with a scintillating gloss that’s in the best pop tradition. On two...
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Helter Shelter
New Is Bad
Buy a house that Elvis, not your average Brentwood banker, would
Walter Jowers
Published: January 24, 2008
If you’re planning to buy a house, you can be sure that between now and the day you sign the closing papers, you’ll get all kinds of advice. Most likely, some of...
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Desperately Seeking the News
Exit Strategies
Good reporters flee The Tennessean as the paper flounders for relevance in the free media age
Matt Pulle
Published: January 24, 2008
by Matt Pulle Imagine you're Tennessean editor Mark Silverman. The job is not what it once was. First of all, one of your titles is vice president for content and audience...
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Features
Stieglitz Again
A proposal surfaces for Fisk to partner with a new African American museum
Christine Kreyling
Published: January 24, 2008
For the first time in the whole debate over the fate of Fisk University’s Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art, some members of...
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Features
The Spin
Published: January 24, 2008
Down with the sicknessThe End has the uncanny ability to feel like a sardine can on busier nights, and alternately cavernous when slow. Things were teetering somewhere in...
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Cover Story
Scansound Vs. The Critics
Published: January 24, 2008
Some country artists were able to combine commercial success and critical success in 2007, but most weren’t. Brad Paisley (No. 14 in Billboard and No. 3 with the critics)...
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Features
Moderate Rock
Are The Foo Fighters dad-rock?
Aaron Jentzen
Published: January 24, 2008
by Aaron JentzenFucking Clapton. I’ve never really understood how he went from being hailed as a deity to releasing pop drivel like “Change the World.” Or how...
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Cover Story
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Published: January 24, 2008
MIRANDA AND CARRIE:2007 was awash with artistic lightweights—Carrie Underwood, Sugarland or Taylor Swift. The core of what has enabled country music to endure, decade...
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Features
Rob Briley: 'I'm Sorry'
Jeff Woods
Published: January 24, 2008
With two Democrats ready to challenge his reelection this year, state Rep. Rob Briley tried to begin his political rehabilitation today, standing before the state House to...
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Dining
Specialties of the House
Former Ritz-Carlton chef brings contemporary cuisine—and $1,400-a-pound truffles—to a 19th century residence
Carrington Fox
Published: January 24, 2008
For all the culinary buzz about the hidden gem of Andrew Chadwick’s at Rutledge Hill, there is still a hush about the restaurant, which opened stealthily in November on...
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Reviews
Savage Love
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney test their familial bonds, one nursing home application at a time
Ella Taylor
Published: January 24, 2008
Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism “uncharted territory” is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with the growing army of senile...
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