A Perfect Ten: Nashville’s Ten Out of Tenn Show Music City’s Other Side
Compilation albums and package tours are hardly a new innovation. Alan Freed’s “Big Beat” tour sent a bunch of rock…

Like that “overnight success” story about the singer who suddenly made it big — after ten years of toiling in clubs — one journalist recently wrote, “Tift Merritt seemingly came out of nowhere in 2002 . . .”
Merritt has indeed been playing small clubs in… more