Addison and Mark Cash in Argill's Music Store in Hendersonville. Mark is the son of Tommy Cash (Johnny Cash's brother.)

This is Addison Runge commenting on the photo that my dad took of me and Mark Cash: It was very AWESOME! We went there to ask about Taylor Swift's family studio, because that was where the address that I got out of one of my celebrity magazines. However we came out of there meeting Johnny Cash and June Cash's nephew! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!!! Plus, he told us a story of when Taylor Swift came into his shop to look at guitar's! He told us she came in and pulled out a guitar and just started strumming away on it! OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The fact that I was in a place that Taylor Swift visited is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus, not just that but inside the shop were all these cool looking guitars and other instruments- they had acoustic and electric guitars, as well as banjo's too!! When my dad and I walked out of there we not only had a souvenir of a great MUSIC stop- Mark Cash gave us a guitar pick with his shop's name on it (which I figure my dad was excited about more than me, since I'm a piano man, and he's the guitar player)- but also we got the address to TWO COOL Stops- Johnny and June Cash's memorial AND TAYLOR SWIFTS HOUSE!!!!!!! YES! We had an amazing day yesterday!

The concierge in the hotel sent us at lunchtime to a pizza place in the Arcade Alley, about a block from our hotel. Great slice of pizza and salad, and lots to look at around the vicinity.

Now here was the bonus: a couple tables away from where we were sitting in this tiny restaurant we saw Leslie David Baker--"Stanley" from The Office. Although we puzzled for a while over why we would see him HERE, there was no doubt whatsoever who it was. There was that unmistakable profile; but when he caught us watching him, he had an expression of displeasure on his face that we immediately recognized from the television character he plays. So when we got back to our "Google"" access, Addison discovered reading about him that he had been in the movie, Elizabethtown as the airport security guard! So he's no stranger to this part of the country at all.
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One more amazing moment for this trip...and much more to come!

Me and the indian guy.

...happened to discover an open call for extras for the new commercial being filmed for Monday Night Football! Hank Williams Jr. and all!

Of course, we joined in, and we had a great spot right in the front row of the crowd. We stood on the site watching the crew set up the set and the lighting and all--and mostly waiting for it to get dark, since they wouldn't start filming until total darkness. Total darkness, however, came--finally--after we'd stood about two hours.

Since they were already an hour late and not starting yet, and the director had told us there would be many takes, Addison and I decided we'd rather not spend our entire evening in Nashville waiting to be extras in a crowd scene in a music video (even if it WAS an NFL spot.) We were hot, thirsty, and hungry and had tired feet from touring all day, so we bagged it and went to Joe's Crab House instead. Besides, we were out of costume. Had we known about this in advance, we'd have dressed in the proper Carolina Panthers wardrobe--and been the only two representatives we could see in the whole crowd from the NFC South. Oh well. It was great fun participating in as much of it as we did.

Almost there, but the crew is still toting, testing, and tweaking, and we are getting ready to blow the final whistle.

More tomorrow from "Music City USA."

When the driver kept saying we'd have a half hour at the "Union Gospel Tabernacle," I had no idea he was talking about what later was named the Ryman Auditorium. Instead of it being what I thought would be a long half hour, it left me wishing we'd had more time there--and especially wishing there would have been a show scheduled while we are here.