If you’re just starting out and want to make it on Broadway in Nashville’s Broadway, you have to play covers.<\/p>\n
When Eric Church moved to Nashville, he wasn’t interested in that.<\/p>\n
“I couldn’t get a gig on Broadway. Nothing. I couldn’t even bartend on Broadway. They didn’t want original music. They wanted you to play whatever the songs were at the time. I didn’t really do that. I was a songwriter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He finally found a place called the Fiddle & Steel Guitar Bar, where he bonded with other guys who were serious about songwriting, including Toby Keith, who had just laid out a guy who was harassing other patrons.<\/p>\n
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