India.Arie’s 2001 debut Acoustic Soul earned seven Grammy nominations and established her as the conscience of the “neo-soul” movement. Her first single “Video” (co-produced by Nashvillian Shannon Sanders) addressed the issue of the objectification of women in the music industry and, by extension, pop culture. Now touring in support of her follow-up LP, Voyage to India, Arie headlines this 7 p.m. show at the Ryman Auditorium—an ideal venue to showcase her best attribute, her mellifluous voice. Don’t miss supporting act Floetry. The duo of London natives have been adding their flavor to the stateside musical stew for the last two years, writing songs for the likes of Glen Lewis, Bilal, Jill Scott and the “king of fop,” Michael Jackson. Floetry’s new neo-soul record Floetic is as dazzling a debut as that of any of the recent soul divas. Rounding out the bill are hip-hoppers Slum Village, longtime underground heroes from Detroit. The members of A Tribe Called Quest once christened Slum Village as their heir apparent, even if the group’s music has more in common with that of The Roots or Black Eyed Peas.
—M.M.
This week’s picks by Todd Anderson, Martin Brady, Doug Brumley, David Cantwell, Chris Davis, Steve Erickson, Jonathan Flax, Bill Friskics-Warren, Jonathan Marx, Mark Mays, Noel Murray, Jim Ridley, Jack Silverman, Angela Wibking and Ron Wynn.
Thursday, 14th
Randy Brecker & The Middle Tennessee Jazz Orchestra Trumpeter Brecker is a dazzling soloist, fine accompanist and first-rate session musician with an amazingly varied résumé. He’s been a regular member of Horace Silver’s sextet and the Mingus Big Band, has teamed with his brother Michael in superb funk/soul-jazz groups and has played on albums by everyone from Parliament to Aretha Franklin. At one time, he was also among the rare jazz players willing and able to find ways of incorporating the electronic trumpet into mainstream musical contexts. Brecker plays 7:30 p.m. with the Middle Tennessee State Jazz Orchestra at Wright Music Building Hall on the MTSU campus.
—R.W.
Amnesty International Benefit Co-sponsored by Amnesty International and TCASK (The Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing), this benefit for The Nashville Peace & Justice Center at Blue Sky Court features performances by local roots-music mainstays Duane Jarvis, Bill Miller, Tommy Womack and Porter Hall, TN. Included among the event’s many door prizes are Steve Earle’s autographed and framed Guitar Town poster, a slew of gift certificates and a special grand prize. The Nashville Peace and Justice Center is a community-based, multi-issue center promoting peacemaking, human rights and social and environmental justice locally and globally—all things we could use a whole lot more of right now.
—B.F-W.
French Kicks These New Yorkers’ first full-length album, One Time Bells, is charged with a smoky coolness that over-deliberate songwriters of the Elvis Costello variety would give a testicle to claim as their own. Instead of piling one instrument on top of the other the way that most rock bands do, French Kicks utilize keys, guitar, drums and bass to achieve a more organic, integrated sound. The result is music that’s warm and comforting though not exactly familiar. If you liked new wave coolness but felt unfulfilled by its distance, French Kicks may just scratch you where you itch. They play the Slow Bar with Southern Bitch (see below) and Stone Jack Jones.
—T.A.
Southern Bitch On their Web site, Southern Bitch describe themselves as a cross between Neil Young and Lynyrd Skynyrd. It may seem like an unlikely pairing, but they pull it off. And they’re no nostalgia act: traces of more modern indie rock influences rest alongside their ’70s roots.
—S.E.
Friday, 15th
Alan Jackson/Lee Ann Womack/Joe Nichols Country records that resonate beyond country radio don’t come along often—yet here’s a show where you know the set closers will feature two of the biggest crossover records Nashville has ever produced: headliner Jackson’s “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” a recent CMA winner for both Song and Single of the Year; and opener Womack’s “I Hope You Dance,” which took home the same honors in 2000. Hot, young neo-honker Nichols (see story on p. 31) joins Jackson and Womack at Gaylord Entertainment Center.
—D.C.
Glory Fountain Springwater hosts this ethereal country-rock group, the core duo of which (Lynn Blakey and John Chumbris) made their bones in such fringe-dwelling outfits as Oh-OK and Econoline. On the band’s first proper LP The Beauty of 23, singer Blakey’s thick-cushioned twang and Chumbris’ snaky guitar embellish compositions heavy with ache, but lightened by the pleasure of overcoming sorrow with simple demonstrations of instrumental skill. Their slow numbers alternate between spooky and draggy, but when Glory Fountain flesh out into full-bodied rock, they take soulful command.
—N.M.
Jim Hoke Nonet Saxophonist Hoke continues to stretch his musical horizons, whether heading his nine-piece group or appearing as a guest soloist on the new CD by area vocalist Kitt Lough. Hoke’s band is among the city’s most intriguing, willing as they are to play outside pieces with intensity or cover the established jazz repertoire with authority. They perform at Cafe 123.
—R.W.
Elekibass/63 Crayons/Character Fans of the Elephant 6 collective’s take on sunny ’60s pop will definitely want to check out Japanese band Elekibass and Roanoke, Va.-based 63 Crayons when they play Red Rose Coffee House. Elekibass are a charming five-piece with naive harmony vocals sung in phonetic English. The two bands play with local instrumental rockers Character. C.D.
Friday, 15th-Saturday, 16th
Return of the Grand Ole Opry For its latest visit to the Ryman Auditorium, the Opry has booked a lineup that’s both young and old, newfangled and plenty traditional: new Opry sweetheart Elizabeth Cook, “Queen of Country Soul” Jeannie Seely and top-notch bluegrassers The Del McCoury Band. Singer-songwriter Radney Foster is set to host, no doubt performing his “Everyday Angels,” one of the year’s best singles and a song that puts an appealingly newfangled spin on the Opry’s traditional family values. That’s just Friday’s show; on Saturday, Foster and the McCoury Band return with Travis Tritt, Bill Anderson and Alison Krauss.
—D.C.
Saturday, 16th
T-Model Ford T-Model Ford is a gritty, aggressive vocalist who embraces blues tales about confrontation, anger and revenge. His latest Fat Possum disc also showcases his skills as a storyteller and narrative artist. Yet his songs aren’t delivered in a dated or reverential manner; rather, they’re as fresh and contemporary as anything coming from the rock end of the blues. Ford plays at Slow Bar.
—R.W.
M. Ward/Deanna Varagona/Paul Burch During his opening slot for Bright Eyes at the Belcourt in September, Portland, Ore.-based singer-songwriter M. Ward wowed the audience with his dazzling guitar skills and timeless songs, garnering a standing ovation and sending a buzz through the crowd during intermission. Working with elements of folk, blues, ragtime and even surf rock, Ward adapts seemingly disparate influences into a singular, relaxed accompaniment for his hushed vocals. Joining him at The End are two members of Nashville-based Lambchop, each playing their solo material. Varagona, a onetime Nashvillian (and current Chicagoan) who contributed baritone sax to Ward’s latest record, draws primarily from Appalachian folk and latter-day country sources on her forthcoming album, The Goodbyes Have Been Taken, Hello. Tackling up-tempo foot-stompers and sparse, loping ballads alike, she fits her versatile voice—from throaty, soulful vocals to a pleasing, more pronounced twang—to each setting. Folk-country revivalist Burch mines a similar vein, albeit with more of a honky-tonker’s sense of swing.
—D.B.
Bill Anderson/Jan Howard Without the career of singer-songwriter “Whisperin’ ” Bill Anderson, the history of country music would be a good deal poorer than it is today. So it’s only appropriate that he should perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame as it draws attention to the new look and expanded inventory of its Museum Store. Anderson also has a new album, No Place Like Home on Christmas, and you can bet he and old friend Jan Howard will sing a few holiday duets when they perform together 1-3 p.m. at the Hall of Fame.
—D.C.
Kelly Willis Blessed with a sweet, supple and deceptively big voice, this onetime protégée of Tony Brown and Music Row has hit her stride as an alt-country singer-songwriter in Austin. Finally singing songs worthy of her wondrous soprano—including those of her husband Bruce Robison—Willis isn’t likely to look back, and a good thing too. She and her band play at 12th & Porter.
—B.F-W.
Sour Puss/Trauma Team Exhibit #59245-A in the ongoing Murfreesboro-Can-Kick-Your-Music-Scene’s-Ass debate: Sour Puss, an atomic MidTenn quintet whose jackhammered power chords, zero-to-60 dynamics, bellowed choruses and squirrelly extras (a trumpet solo, harmonica, electronic sci-fi doinkery) sometimes suggest the chest-beating overdrive of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion—only frontman John Nash doesn’t punctuate every sentence by hollering “Bloooooze Explosion!” Take your heart medicine before Saturday’s show at Guido’s, especially since Trauma Team will be matching them gut punch for body blow to defend Nashville’s honor.
—J.R.
Fred Bogert Bogert has engineered more than 3,000 recordings in his decade-plus tenure on Music Row, but he’s also produced three albums as a leader, including Back Porch Swing, with incomparable violinist Vassar Clements. Bogert’s talents also extend to writing, producing and arranging, as well to playing several instruments and doing lead vocals. Bogert performs 1 p.m. at Jazz on White Bridge Road.
—R.W.
Lynette Vantreese Vantreese makes thoughtful, distinctive rock music with folk and pop influences, but most importantly, she has a singular sound and vision. In an era defined by the desire to exploit prevailing trends, Vantreese is pursuing her own direction, hoping to hook audiences through her musical skills rather than production tricks or gimmicky songs. She appears 8 p.m. at Lipstick Lounge.
—R.W.
Sunday, 17th
CeDell Davis & Friends Arkansas bluesman Davis’ latest album, White Lightnin’ Struck the Pine, might feature Seattle alt-rockers Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Barrett Martin, but it’s still chock-full of fat-ass, dirty-toned, juke joint shuffles that are straight out of the Delta. Fans of R.L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough won’t want to miss Davis (who plays guitar upside down with a butter knife) when he and his band, currently including Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus on second guitar, play the Slow Bar. The Legendary Shack♦Shakers open at 8 p.m.
—B.F-W.
The Rugs This local four-piece make grunge-inspired modern rock with more brains and less posturing than the vast majority of their counterparts working in equal obscurity from coast to coast. Best of all, frontman Matt Maher tempers the angst in his searching moan with humility and insight—that is, he earns it. The Rugs headline the latest installment of WRLT’s weekly simulcast at 3rd & Lindsley.
Monday, 18th
Get Hustle/Capital City Dusters/Aina L.A. punk act Get Hustle write moody, piano-based songs set to heavy, elastic rhythms. Their singer Valentine is a platinum-dyed diva in Hollywood glamour-era togs—and one with the necessary dramatic sense and stage charisma to fashion spontaneous arrangements with her telepathic Goth cabaret cohorts. The Capital City Dusters are the newest project by Superbad Records honcho and former Severin guitarist Alec Bourgeois. The D.C. band write energetic, politically charged punk songs that build on that city’s emo and hardcore tradition. Aina are a Jawbox-influenced emo band from Barcelona, Spain, touring America for the first time. The three acts play at Red Rose Coffee Shop.
—C.D.
Coco Montoya Guitar heroes come and go on the blues circuit, but there aren’t many who developed their skills under the careful eye of Albert Collins. Montoya began as the drummer in Collins’ band before being trained on guitar by the shuffle blues master. He also spent more than a decade with one of the later incarnations of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers. Over the years, Montoya has evolved into a soloist who doesn’t just flail away or crank up his amp, but one who can offer compelling phrases and imaginatively constructed statements. Also a fine vocalist and entertainer, he appears at Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar. R.W.
Tuesday, 19th
Cumberland Heights Benefit feat. John Hiatt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rosanne Cash and Rodney Crowell You’d be hard-pressed to find a more incisive, literate corps of twang-leaning singer-songwriters on a bill anywhere; that they’re banding together to support such a worthy cause, the alcohol and drug treatment programs of Cumberland Heights, only adds to the auspicious nature of the event. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show at the Ryman Auditorium range from $29.50 to $34.50.
—B.F-W.
Jonathan Richman Richman is a wonderful, engaging performer with the unique ability to write both witty, optimistic songs without being a Pollyanna and pointed social critiques without being a misanthrope. Yet all of Richman’s empathy would be for naught if the songs weren’t so good, which they’ve been since his early days as the leader of Boston’s pre-punk Modern Lovers (whose members would go on to join The Cars and Talking Heads) all the way through his second career as a folkie. Richman plays with longtime drummer/straight man Tommy Larkins at Bluebird Cafe. C.D.
Duke Fame Slow Bar’s weekly “New Faces Night” features a suburban Atlanta power-pop quartet named for the prissy rocker that the members of Spinal Tap couldn’t stand. Though Duke Fame’s music has little to do with the “world of heavy rock,” they do sound like they’d be at home in 1984, when This is Spinal Tap was first released. The band’s debut album, Regrets, has the joyful spirit, melodic invention and endearing amateurishness of mid-’80s college radio. Vocalist Eric Zweig has trouble hitting all the notes, as does bandleader-guitarist Steve Tockerman, but that may be because they’re modeling themselves after rough-hewn hook-makers like The Replacements (even though their music more naturally suggests the shimmering clean of Let’s Active).
—N.M.
California Guitar Trio Guitar geeks, start lining up. These three Robert Fripp disciples, who met in England in 1987 at one of his seminars, are master instrumentalists and innovative composers who embrace the legendary King Crimson guitarist’s ethos of painstaking discipline and precision. Stylistically, the trio are musical globetrotters, and fittingly so—Bert Lams is from Brussels, Hideyo Moriya is a native of Tokyo and Paul Richards hails from Salt Lake City. On their 2002 recording CG3+2, they pepper their selections with a few well-chosen covers, including intriguing versions of Yes’ “Heart of the Sunrise” and The Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Dance of Maya,” both of which should be showstoppers live. If you’re tired of watching the Telecaster nation yank their B-benders and want to expand your notion of the guitar’s possibilities, then don’t miss this show at 12th & Porter. J.S.
Duke Robillard Since his formation of the influential blues outfit Roomful of Blues back in 1967, Robillard has dedicated his life to the blues, and he’s a master at balancing his reverence for tradition with his drive to develop his own voice. In both 2000 and 2001, he deservedly took home the W.C. Handy award for Guitarist of the Year, and there is little doubt that he is at the top of the heap of living practitioners of his art. Robillard’s singing probably won’t ever win any awards, though the sincerity and directness of his growling baritone can grow on you. He returns to Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar.
—J.S.
Wednesday, 20th
Noel Sanger Electronic dance music is all about finding release in the relentless, driving beats a DJ provides in a room packed full of heaving bodies. Producer/remixer Sanger understands this as well as anyone, but his own approach as a DJ is to explore the whole range of bpms that get butts moving on a dance floor. Hence his new double CD, Summerbreeze II, is surprisingly diverse—spacious at times (leaving enough room for the appearance of This Mortal Coil’s “Song to the Siren” at one point) and propulsive at others. Electronica fans should expect a customarily expansive set when Sanger comes to town to celebrate the disc’s release at the Liquid Lounge. Presented by local promoter Leon Jackson’s Electric Lounge, the evening will also feature local DJs Dustin Michaels and Terry Grant. For more information, e-mail electriclounge@hotmail.com.
—J.M.
Paolo Angeli Angeli is a virtuoso on Sardinian guitar, which resembles a cross between an acoustic folk guitar and an acoustic bass. This visually striking instrument allows him to play amazing counterpoint without overdubs. Yet Angeli’s music isn’t carried by effects or by the seeming novelty of his peculiar instrument, but rather by his tasteful union of traditional Sardinian ethnic monody, keening melodic classical guitar and droning bursts of controlled feedback and distorted electronics. He plays at ruby green contemporary arts center.
—C.D.
Hem Piano- and harmonium-based and recorded with a small orchestra in which flute, cello and oboe predominate, Rabbit Songs, the lush, airy debut of this Brooklyn quartet, owes as much to the expansive pastoralism of Aaron Copland as to the crepuscular post-folk of Beth Orton and Nick Drake. The languid lyricism in singer Sally Ellyson’s dreamy alto is hypnotic, yet also loamy enough to do justice to a centuries-old ballad like “The Coo Coo.” A similar reach attends the pedal steel, mandolin and assorted plucking of her bandmates, whose playing typically evinces less twang than stately, muted grace. Hem bring their ageless Americana to the Slow Bar, where they will follow Nashvillian Mack Starks, a conscious troubadour with a big, aching heart.
—B.F-W.
Drums & Tuba/That One Guy Drums & Tuba are an experimental trio from New York who fuse jazz, punk, funk, electronica and brass—not just tuba, but trumpet and trombone too—in their manic, groove-oriented instrumentals. After briefly disbanding in the late ’90s, the band reunited to play the support slot on Ani DiFranco’s 1998 tour. DiFranco later signed them to her Righteous Babe label, co-producing 2001’s Vinyl Killer, a record that saw an increase in the loops-and-effects quotient of the band’s sound, along with heavy doses of Afro-beat and rock guitar. Sound eclectic? It is, as is their latest, the just-released Mostly Ape. Opening the show at 12th & Porter is That One Guy, a.k.a. Mike Silverman, whose ax is a huge, mangled and grotesque one-stringed instrument called “The Pipe.” Complete with internal fog machine, drum triggers and a self-described “good/evil” voicebox, “The Pipe” looks like a Home Depot shopping spree gone horribly wrong.
—J.F.
Film
A Week to Remember Throw a dart at the Scene Movie Guide this week, and you’re likely to hit a movie worth seeing. In fact, you could see a movie a day over the next week and not catch all the good ones. Among the current releases well worth checking out in local theaters: the remarkably pertinent trio of Bloody Sunday, Bowling for Columbine and Das Experiment, along with 8 Mile, Femme Fatale, Frida, Igby Goes Down, The Man From Elysian Fields, The Producers and Punch-Drunk Love. So many movies, so little time.
—J.R.
La Ciénaga/Warm Water Under a Red Bridge Having sponsored some of the best screenings of recent years, the grass-roots kino club Nashville Premieres has become a reliable brand name for hardcore movie nuts. Two local premieres this week at Sarratt bear the NP stamp: La Ciénaga (Monday and Tuesday), Lucretia Martel’s heralded debut feature about a middle-class Argentine family mired in a literal and metaphorical swamp; and Japanese master Shohei Imamura’s Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Wednesday), a vivacious sex comedy about a woman whose loving is an eruption in every sense. And starting Dec. 20 at the Belcourt, Nashville Premieres sponsors what may be the movie event of the year—a complete screening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, the late filmmaker’s landmark series of 10 one-hour films addressing each of the Ten Commandments. For more information on the Sarratt screenings, see our Movie Guide. J.R.
“Lust for Ecstasy” The films of New York underground legends George and Mike Kuchar (“Hold Me While I’m Naked,” “Sins of the Fleshapoids”) almost never get screened locally, so it’s a wonder to find the Kuchars’ 45-minute 1963 epic as part of Sensored magazine’s monthly “Yard Flix” series. The brothers’ unhinged early 8mm costume dramas mimic the tropes and exaggerated emotions of Hollywood spectacles; they’re a crucial link between the underground cinema of the 1960s and cult directors such as John Waters and Todd Haynes. Also on the bill are films by Uzbekistani director Shavkat Karimov, Greg Hallmark and Brent Stewart, Flick Farnsworth, and Jason Mallory. Now indoors for the winter, Yard Flix starts 7 p.m. Monday at Blue Sky Court, 410 4th Ave. S.
—J.R.
Two by Orson Welles Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil, this week on the big screen at Sarratt. If you have other plans, break ’em.
—J.R.
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart Wilco gets the major-label dickaround in Sam Jones’ black-and-white documentary, which details the intrigue surrounding the group’s acclaimed Yankee Foxtrot Hotel LP. The well-reviewed doc opens Friday for a week’s run at the Belcourt.
—J.R.
Renegade Independent Film Festival Animation, horror and silent comedy are among the offerings at this showcase of shorts by Nashville filmmakers, including David Van Hooser (“Scene of the Crime”), Mark Naccarato (“The Crusader”), Zac Adams (“True Love”), Bob Giordano (“Fate”), Alan McKenna (“Silent Affair”), Chris Conner (“The Space Between Things”), Glen Weiss (“Shudder”) and John Hamm (“Sarge’s Secret Mission”). The event unreels 7 p.m. Thursday at the Franklin Cinema, which has been doing some interesting programming lately. Admission is $7.
—J.R.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Make room for the broom, starting Friday. If you plan to go this weekend, we strongly suggest buying advance tickets. That shouldn’t be necessary for the week’s other newcomer, Steven Seagal in Half Past Dead. J.R.
Theater
The Pirates of Penzance This popular Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which gained a lot of new fans in the ’80s when it was staged in New York and later made into a movie, receives a student production by the Vanderbilt Opera. For fun-loving light theater, it’s got it all: laughs, love, mistaken identity and the witty rum-te-tum of G&S’ music and lyrics. Gayle Shay directs the actors, and David Childs conducts the Vanderbilt Orchestra. If the young singers can muster up the right silly spirit, this should be definitely worth a look, especially since Gilbert and Sullivan’s work doesn’t show up too often on the local stage. The production runs Nov. 15 and 17 in the most excellent Ingram Center for the Performing Arts at Blair School of Music. For more information, call 322-7651.
—M.B.
Art
Rumours Gallery The latest show at this 12 South space offers works by two gallery favorites, plus one new face. Justin Terry, whose floral abstracts were a big hit at Rumours this past spring, is back from his part-time home in Barcelona with lots of new work. Trevor Mikula’s paintings of fruit and flowers were so popular earlier this fall that he’s created a whole new group for this show. Christy Drinkwater makes her gallery debut with a series of kitchen-themed pastels and charcoals on craft paper. Meet all three artists at the opening reception, 6-9 p.m. Nov. 15.
—A.W.
Gallery at The Belcourt Photographer Craig Brabson presents a series of nostalgic images taken with plastic cameras over a period of eight years and several thousand miles. “I began in 1994, haphazardly collecting images on road trips simply to see what would come from it,” the artist explains. What has come of it are colorful shots of whirling carnival rides, a boy holding up the fish he’s just caught, elderly women at the beach and an American flag made of colored cups stuck in a wire fence. Join the artist for an opening reception, 4-6 p.m. Nov. 16. A.W.
Caldwell Collection Tom Darnell’s just a Southern boy—southern France, that is. Actually, he’s a transplanted Texan who’s found a home in the little French village of St. Valiere, the better to ply his trade as a painter. He brings his latest florals and landscapes to Nashville for his second annual holiday exhibition and sale. Meet the artist at the opening reception, 5-7 p.m. Nov. 14, and see p. 38 for more information on the show.
—A.W.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts Gloria DeArcangelis’ exquisite oil paintings have a contemporary sensibility, but the luminous skin tones, strong lighting and curvaceous bodies, nude or draped in folds of fabric, evoke classic Renaissance and Baroque figurative works. The Seattle-based artist visits Nashville to talk about her work in a free lecture, 6 p.m. Nov. 14.
—A.W.
Events
National Transgender Day of Remembrance The statistic is sobering: Over the past decade, anti-transgender hate crimes have resulted in at least one homicide per month or more—many unsolved or pushed to the back burner by uninterested police. Next Wednesday, Nov. 20, services in 20 states will commemorate the Third Annual National Transgender Day of Remembrance, just to make sure no one forgets. Sponsored by the transgender support group Tennessee Vals, the Nashville service will be held at 7 p.m. in the Sanctuary at First Church Unity, 5125 Franklin Road. For information on the day and its origin, visit www.gender.org/remember/index.html. J.R.
El Pochtecalli Open House Aime Gebauer is a native of central Mexico, and she’s filled El Pochtecalli, her shop near 100 Oaks Mall, with fine crafts from her homeland. You’ll find chimeneas, mirrors, fountains, furniture, dishes, clothing, toys and more. Check out the imports and enjoy authentic Mexican, Colombian and Peruvian refreshments at an open house, noon-4 p.m. Nov. 17. The shop is at 718 Thompson Lane, next to Applebee’s. For information, call 463-8101.
—A.W.
Veterans Speak Out About Iraq Wilson “Woody” Powell, who serves as the national administrator for the antiwar organization Veterans for Peace, comes to town this week to voice his opposition to a war in Iraq. Powell is the co-author of Two Walk the Golden Road, a dual memoir in which he and Zhou Ming-Fu, a Chinese veteran, recount how they fought against each other in the Korean War, then later became close friends. He’ll be joined at the Nashville Peace and Justice Center, 1016 18th Ave. S., by World War II veteran Lincoln Grahlfs and Korean War veteran Charlie Atkins. The talk is free and open to the public, and it takes place 7 p.m. Nov. 15.
—J.M.
