Memories of Nashville

Adam Granger is a guitar player from Norman, Oklahoma who lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He learned banjo from fellow Normanite Alan Munde in 1968.  He was a columnist for Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, and is the author of Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar, published by Mel Bay.  Adam played and wrote humor for A Prairie Home Companion throughout its forty-year run.  Most recently, he has toured with Alan Munde as a duo.  His first contribution to Bluegrass Unlimited was a cover story about the Viennese bluegrass band, the Bluegrass Specials, in February, 1969 (Vol 3, No 8). PART ONE: Nashville Life In 1971, I was playing banjo and guitar in a country music theater at a now-defunct theme park in the Arkansas Ozarks called Dogpatch, USA.  As the end of the tourist season approached, my friend, John Hadley, contacted me from Norman, Oklahoma, saying he was going to Nashville to try to sell songs and suggesting that I join him there.  John had been my printmaking pro