He didn't know it at the time but Tim Ghianni's love affair with Nashville and its musical
artists began on a steamy night in 1972 when the twenty-year-old author had unsolicited help
from honky-tonkin' legends Bobby Bare and Shel Silverstein during an after-midnight salvation?
of the city. It was the beginning of a lifelong urban romance that Ghianni would pursue during
a career as a journalist in middle Tennessee interviewing Nashville's biggest stars and
developing friendships with musicians of all kinds.Pilgrims Pickers & Honky-Tonk Heroes is Tim
Ghianni's love letter and nostalgic swan song recounting the storied musical history of
Nashville as well as the dramatic changes the city has seen over the course of fifty years. The
Nashville of today?with one hundred newcomers a day from places like Los Angeles and New York
and fresh waves of musicians making up a new modern soundtrack?is not the same city he made his
home in 1972 for better and for worse.Time changes everything even a beloved American city
but this briskly told and warmly remembered book recounts the countless friends adventures
and anecdotes that capture the essence of Music City across a half-century.
