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Carter Vintage Guitars (Part 1)

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This is Nashville, and there are some big guitars is town. One of the most notable lies on the south side of Carter Vintage Guitars, on 8th Avenue South. The mural is a product of a mural company I’ve not featured on this blog before, Vermillion Murals, professional home of Jenna Boyko Colt and Brian Law. The mural is titled “Les Paul Gibson,” and of course features one of the iconic guitars from that series. Vermillion is also responsible for the mural on the north side of Carter Vintage – I’ll feature that mural in another upcoming post.

Part 2

Located at 625 8th Avenue South. The mural is on the south side of the building, across the street from Jackalope Brewing Company. There is free street parking, if you are lucky, a block away on Ninth. Carter Vintage has customer parking, and there is paid parking between Eighth and Ninth. Check out the vintage guitars and enjoy the art!

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You sure that was just a sugar pill?

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Down on Roy Acuff Place, across the street from historic RCA Studio B, a surreal scene may make you doubt your sanity. Two singing cowboys, one atop a crawfish, the other astride a snapping turtle, adorn the south wall of the building that holds Carnival Music and Little Extra Music. The surreal scene is brought to us by artist Mike Shine, who’s work often reflects a world just a little off-kilter, and often a whole lot. The mural itself is part of the Nashville Walls Project, which I described in Guitars and automobiles. You can see a slideshow of Shine working on the mural on the NWP website. Just lay off the peyote, ok?

The address of the building is 24 Music Square West, but the mural itself faces the 1600 block of Roy Acuff Place. This is a tough neighborhood to park in, though easier on the weekend. You might have to walk a bit, or catch it on a guided tour of Music Row!

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This is Nashville, so guitars

Guitar statue public art NashvilleSometimes you find public art where you least expect it. Strip malls, particularly the nicer ones, tend to have pretty slim pickings. But the Nashville West shopping center is a little different, in that embedded in the parking lot is a quiet little park, the H.G. Hill park. And on the northwest side of the park are two guitars, because of course there are. The one below is dedicated to Les Paul, the Wizard of Waukesha. As yet, I have no information on who made these.

Located at 6710 Charlotte Pike, in the Nashville West shopping center, more or less across the parking lot from Old Navy. Scads and scads of free parking, probably less so during Christmas shopping season. Take a break from consumerism and enjoy the park and the art!

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Guitar heroes

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The Norf Collective continues to expand its repertoire, turning much of the Jefferson Street neighborhood into a growing art gallery. With help from a grant from United Healthcare, several new works have gone up recently, including this enormous Dough Joe piece on the west wall of the Elks Lodge. And I do mean enormous, as the picture above is only part of an even larger piece (see below). Dough Joe told Fox 17 that the main panel pays homage to an epic guitar battle between Johnny Jones and Jimi Hendrix back when the building housed Club Baron. Efforts are underway to get historic status for the building, so hopefully this mural will be in place for a long time.

Located at 2614 Jefferson Street. Plenty of nearby parking.

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And that one is outta here!

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The guitar-shaped scoreboard at Greer Stadium definitely counts as public art, and it definitely falls in the category of endangered art. No firm plans have been made, but the parks department recommend the destruction of Greer last year. There’s a covered fence around the field, but it’s easy enough to slip under the cover and peer through the fence now that there are no games and no one cares if you get a free peek at the field.

At 534 Chestnut Street, next to the entrance to Ft. Negley. Park in the visitors parking at the Vanderbilt printing offices across the street and pull up the tarp on the fence to get your best view.

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Going, going,….?

Gibson Guitar sign Nashville street art
Gibson Guitar is selling the building at 1117 Church St., so the fate of this giant guitar and the guitar mural on the other side (see below) is uncertain. I’m putting them both in the category “endangered art.” If you have any insights or inside information, please post in the comments.

The mural is on the west side of the building, best seen from Church St, though at present a construction fence complicates the view. Park below the bridge and take the stairs — they come out right in front of the building. The guitar, on the southeast corner, is a little harder. The land closest to it is inside a locked fence. If you can’t get in, the parking lot across from Chauhan Ale and Masala House on Grundy St is your best bet, where I took my photo.

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