two takes on my neighborhood

Jim Jean:

Not to get too deep, but East Nashville is so diverse. On one side of the street you got dudes in a penthouse with a Porsche, and then you still have your trash can stolen by your neighbor, and your neighbors are shooting each other next door. You can also drink beer in the passenger seat of a car, which is pretty rad.

From an East Nashvillian profile of the 5 Spot (January issue):

Collinsworth knew East Nashville was a good thing when he visited in the summer of 1999. He was dragged into the now-defunct Radio Café by the late Skip Litz, local soundman and East Nashville fixture. There was a couple onstage playing some cover tunes -- Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Chuck Berry -- for a handful of patrons. They had a Dylan songbook with them and would ask the audience to call out page numbers before proceeding to play the selected song. "Come to find out, that couple was Gillian Welch and David Rawlings as The Esquires," Collinsworth says. “It was then and there that I decided to move to Nashville."