Guitarist William Tyler’s moving performance piece, Corduroy Roads, was a mixture of historical images, music and artistic musings on the legacy of the Civil War. While most of the Sesquicentennial of the Battle of Nashville commemorations were designed to draw people into an understanding of what happened here, Tyler’s piece suggests there is no complete knowing. The distance between us and the event will always render it fundamentally mysterious. Beautiful and strange, it also felt the most true about the weight of the past on us and our city.
Best Reckoning With the Civil War
William Tyler’s Corduroy Roads at OZ
