Leaving New York City for Nashville the hot summer of 1999 - can you say car trouble?

Songs in this episode

• The Purgatory Principle - live recording circa `93, Faulkner Dylan Heinz & Me
• Bargain Bin - original Last Roundup demo 1983
• As Is - Middlescence

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Love - a major inspiration and near-constant distraction.

In the round at the Bluebird, oh lord I want to be in that number.

Songs in this episode:

Magicians demo

Rode Hard from The Sugar Tree

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A nice guy from Springfield...

The road is long and the struggle is eternal

1998 - Still looking at Nashville and Making Middlescence

A cat named James and a smart kid

Songs in this episode:

Snippet from Sleeping With The Moon recorded by Jay Joyce (unreleased)

Rode Hard from The Sugar Tree

NYC alternate side parking burnout; sophomore album second-guessing, and the siren song of late 20th century Nashville.

Songs in this episode:

Farmer's Daughter - Shams rehearsal tape

The Good Girls

Rode Hard

New York singer songwriter Amy Rigby finds herself at a church service in Nashville. Thirty-five years old—uncomfortably close to being over the hill —she's exploring the possibility of a songwriting career while she tries to find someone to release her first solo album Diary Of A Mod Housewife.

"It was 1994, the year Kurt Cobain killed himself and Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley. A few months later, OJ Simpson would be arrested for murder...Church sounded like it could be interesting, or at least amusing. Maybe even helpful? I didn't know what I believed anymore."

Songs in this episode:

• Rode Hard, from The Sugar Tree