A Hollywood Disaster Film Of A Year

If you wrote the 2020 story of Nashville as a screenplay it would get tossed! A tornado, followed by a job-killing pandemic, then, before the third act, a terrorist bombing on Christmas morning. Yeah, and the bomber played Petula Clark’s classic “Downtown” right before he blew himself up.

Oh yeah, and the homegrown, lone wolf bomber allegedly thought the phone company was going to kill us all with 5G.

So 2021 is here, and the stink of 2020 is not going away for the first half of the year at least. Yes, we will start many things anew, but the virus is about to peak, and we may need some more patience before the light at the end of the tunnel shows up.

Everybody is going to need to find their second wind. More charity. More feel-good artist Zooms.

Radio, with its cutbacks and layoffs, needs to find its purpose and soul. TV shined on the Christmas bombing in Nashville, but not all TV. The cutbacks really show up on the disasters.

The new artists need to step up and make themselves known with positive social media and thinking outside the box. Too many artists were invisible through most of 2020.

The Country music community is more than just Nashville. It’s about more than the songs and stars. It’s the vibe. It’s the fans. It’s the way of doing things. It is and has always been about caring!

The old saying WWJD, remember that? Well now let’s try in 2021, “What would Dolly do?” Charity, collaboration, and everything Dolly Parton did last year got Country positive publicity.

Country music is not half-assed Pop or Rock or Rap. It doesn’t have to be hillbilly either. It’s 2021. The most successful will be contemporary with a mix of traditional.

People want to remember the way it was and be hopeful about what will be. Hope and being safe are everything right now.

The cancer that created the insane Nashville bomber is alive a well. Just read the internet when you Google “Nashville bomber.” Lots a crazy stuff out there.

Music Row can set a tone and use its positive influence on vaccine distribution and keeping everyone filled with hope and safety.

Let’s hope the pox of 2020 stays in the history books. Country music and Nashville are not victims. We are winners and leaders. We are all going to find hope, and Nashville will return to greatness in 2021. So, hold on.