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21. Books

    Mom Always Liked Me Best

    Robert Leleux’s debut memoir insists on laughing through the tears

    Chris Clancy

    Published: January 31, 2008

    Too many memoirs are lazily labeled “painfully funny,” as if it’s unusual to read a story that softens its sad parts with a well-timed witticism. But in The...

22. Books

    Highballers and Hoss Hair Pullers

    A Brit goes in search of the secret history of hillbilly music

    Maria Browning

    Published: January 31, 2008

    Roots music, old-time music — whatever you call it, the current craze for primal country has resurrected the work of artists from Bascom Lamar Lunsford to Bob Wills. It...

23. Theater

    Smooth Sailing

    Despite a couple of minor flaws, Nashville Opera excels with Gilbert & Sullivan classic

    Martin Brady

    Published: January 31, 2008

    Despite some rough seas at the outset, Nashville Opera’s opening performance of HMS Pinafore had much to recommend it. Gilbert & Sullivan’s fourth collaboration is...

24. Our Critics Picks

    Our Critics' Picks

    Published: January 31, 2008

    THURSDAY 1/31MusicASYLUM STREET SPANKERS There’ll never be a time when the serious nonsense dished up by this eight-person vaudeville troupe from Austin, Texas,...

25. Suburban Turmoil

    Dad-Core Is Hard-Core

    Lindsay Ferrier

    Published: January 31, 2008

    A man wearing a baby carrier strapped to his chest walks past a Green Hills construction site, where yet another McMansion is being erected on a postage-stamp lot. When he...

26. SceneCast

    Episode 117

    Collin Monk

    Published: January 31, 2008

    The Scenecast is the "audio extension of the music section of the print edition of the Nashville Scene" and expands your reading pleasure with sonic illustrations to keep your...