Night view of Lower Broadway in Nashville in April 2018. Photo: Getty Images. I am, as of publication, in Nashville for a work conference. Not a music-writing conference, but for my other area of journalistic focus. When I think of Nashville, I think of country music, drunken bachelorette parties…

Derek Hoke, courtesy Alex Berger/Weird Candy. Derek Hoke just might be Nashville’s best-kept secret. Get “Electric Mountain” on Amazon Music. Until recently, he was hosting $2 Tuesdays at the 5 Spot, where he says everyone in town has probably seen him play. After 12 years of that, he’s ready…

Lola Kirke photographed outside The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on March 24, 2022. Nathan McKinley/STAFF. Lola Kirke doesn’t feel British (she was born in London) or completely American (her family moved to New York when she and her siblings were still kids). Although she got her artistic career…

Camaron Ochs photographed at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Sept. 26, 2018. Courtesy Chelsea Kornse. Other photos: Roman Gokhman, unless noted. NASHVILLE — It wouldn’t be obvious to this outsider, until Pamela Cole, co-owner of Fanny’s House of Music guitar store in East Nashville, points to a photo pinned…