• Me in '23

    The Bluebird

    “Nashville cats, play clean as country water Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew Nashville cats, been playin’ since they’s babies Nashville cats, get work before they’re two” ~ Chorus from the 1966 hit ”Nashville Cats” by The Lovin’ Spoonful. If I were given a work life “do-over,” I’m pretty sure I would have chosen the music business instead of journalism. Not as a performing artist but the person who discovers them. The talent scout who sits in the audience listening to dozens of acts searching for the next big star. Or at least an asteroid. In sports, particularly major league baseball, elite scouts have what is called “the third…