Thom Schuyler - 16th Ave Revisited - Oz - Southern Word
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- On May 5, 2016, an intergenerational cast of some of the city’s top writers came together, for one night only, to reflect on our city in flux and claim our city’s future. The line-up of Reflecting Nashville featured nationally acclaimed novelist Tony Earley, Hall of Fame songwriter Thom Schuyler, top spoken word artist Rashad thaPoet, pioneering chef Margot McCormack, Nashville in Harmony, R&B songstress Kiya Lacey, award winning journalist Jessica Bliss, Youth Poet Laureate Cassidy Martin, and a host of other writers who have emerged as Nashville’s most celebrated voices.
This is the list of the phenomenal cast:
Cast video trailer: bit.ly/1VZsuZR
Jessica Bliss: Award-winning journalist for The Tennessean
Constance Bynum: Poet, Youth slam team member for Nashville in Philadelphia 2014
DJ VU Reggaerica: Producer, Poet, Southern Word resident DJ and mentor, Graduate of MTSU
Tony Earley: Award-winning author, Named one of the 20 Best Writers of his generation by Granta and The New Yorker, Professor of English at Vanderbilt University
Leslie Garcia: Lipscomb University freshman, Youth slam team member for Nashville in Atlanta 2015
Kiya Lacey: R&B/Soul Artist of the debut EP Fail In Love, Opening artist for Brandy and Goapele
Adarian Lherisson: Actor, published poet and spoken word artist, Opened for Carlos Santana, Lead technical strategist for Dream7
Nashville in Harmony: Chorus for LGBT people and their allies, Voted “Favorite Chorus” by Nashville Scene readers
Nate Marshall: Poet and author of The Wild Hundreds, Winner of Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, Graduate of Vanderbilt University
Cassidy Martin: Poet and Visual Artist, 2016 Nashville Youth Poet Laureate, 2016 Individual Slam Finalist
Margot McCormack: Chef, Creator of Margot's Café & Bar, Awarded "Best Restaurant" 5 years in a row.
Niya McCray: Poet, rising 3L student at Vanderbilt Law School
NSA Slam Team: Winners of the Southern Word Team Slam at TPAC
Tia Mitchell: Poet and actress, 2007 Southern Entertainment Artist of the Year as part of GRAVATY, Southern Word poet mentor
Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay: Poet, songwriter and musician, Nashville’s First Youth Poet Laureate, Released her debut EP Orange in 2014,
Rashad “thaPoet": Award-winning spoken word artist; First Nashville spoken word artist to sell over 10,000 albums and has independently sold over 20,000 to date; Named Nashville’s top male spoken word artist
Thom Schuyler: Songwriter with songs recorded by over 200 artists including 15 chart topping songs, Inducted into Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2011
Megan LeAnne Smith: Performance artist specializing in spoken word and movement arts, President of MTSU’s WordUP! Supreme Performance and Hip Hop Collective
Saran Thompson: Producer, poet, rapper, collaborator with HERC and CZ Tyga, Graduate of MLK Academic Magnet and MTSU
Erica Wright: Award-wining novelist, One of O Magazine's Best Books of 2014, Editor for Guernica Magazine
I pass 16th avenue every day on my way to Vanderbilt. Amazing how different it looks now. Love both versions of your songs Thom.
Breaks my heart. Thom has mastered the craft of putting hard issues into simple words. God save our city.
Time passes so quickly. I remember seeing Thom singing 16th Avenue when he was a young man. This epilogue is heartbreaking. 💔
We were truly lucky to be there when we were. Great rewrite Thom.
WOW. I never heard this version. I'm 55 yrs old and recently rediscovered the lacy Dalton version of the song after not hearing it for 35 to 40 years. It was hard to listen to it as it brought back memories too many memories of a different time when life was a lot different, simpler. Hearing this version it was hard to hold back the tears. Because the changes that Tom sings about on 116 Avenue didn't just occur in his little part of the world but in my little part of the world as I'm sure it has in yours, and everyone's
As a resident of Nashville, I feel like I live this song.
JEB Angela Cox yes that's a song that hits home
@@gunnyu.s.m.c8606 semper Fi Gunny. Retired 22 years myself. Retired from 2/8
Classic Thom Schuyler brilliance at it's best. Thanks, Thom. Glad I was there when the cranes weren't.
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A wonderful epilogue for the original song.
I just listened to "This Old House" and this made me sadder. It's so true. I remember riding with a co-songwriter in 2005 up 16th and we saw all the "For Sale" signs for publishing houses and we remarked about the futility of what we were doing. Napster stole from writers and publishers shamelessly with the digital revolution, and now it's Google and Amazon and Spotify. There's still great songs, but the artists are screwed if they don't have several million streams, and have to tour to survive. The corporations that own country music here and in LA spend their time giving award shows to their ten or so artists that made a dent, and all the publicity goes to those few, because radio is dead, and suits who aren't music creators make money for songwriters, not develop talents and raw songwriters anymore. Digital has killed the songwriting profession, with a big hand in the deed from Clear Channel, who destroyed music radio, and disc jockey and programmers' autonomy to be creative, or help an artist get heard. I did a Pinterest search for Music Row pics the other day, and none of the pics were of 16th or 17th or even Berry Hill. All were of Lower Broadway. No one even know where the music they loved as a teen or a kid came from.
As a musician back in the early 90's trying to make it(AHHH so many memories ) i had the pleasure to see 16th ave and 17th ave in its untouched state,im sure it was changed a little from way back, it didnt look much if you didnt know any better you would think you were on just another one way street i a small little town.Well i left Nashville and came back a few years later and was blown away. Now i know things change and they always will but it brought me to tears to see what they did. This song tells the truth!
One of the greatest of songwriters in any music venue. I'm thankful he struggled but made it back in the 70's. He'd quite possibly get stiffed by the industry starting out today.
Wow, Thom! Loved this almost as much as the original. Nice sounding Guild too!!!
Very Poignant
Magnificient Thom,
brilliant writing and singing from one of the best to do it...
AWEsome so true to Music City. 😍
Brilliant!
Thos is heart breaking
wow. this was amazing! Living in Nashville i loved all the references.
WOW!!!! 👏 👏 👏
awesome!! my compliments sir and thank you for sharing
Has Thom recorded playing "Who needs a Hummer?"
Damn.
Where has our heritage gone? 16th Avenue
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
This song is so beautiful. Im'french and don't quite understand the new lyrics of the "revisited version" ... If one of you feel to write it .. thank's a lot :-)
I'll try with a translation program since I don't speak French even though I am part French by heritage.
Du coin de la division où se tiennent les personnes nues
Cette voie vers Wedgewood était la terre promise
Avec toutes ces petites maisons où tant de rêves se sont réalisés
Ont été rasés au bulldozer pour construire des condos sur la 16e Avenue
Rien ne semble familier et il reste peu de bien
Notre quartier a été envahi par un troupeau de grues géantes
Il a l'air si préhistorique comme un zoo loufoque
Un parc Jurrasic froid et austère sur la 16e Avenue
Les auteurs-compositeurs vendent des journaux tous les jours pendant que nous passons
Ils agitent des trottoirs, ils ne sont pas difficiles à Spotify
La boîte de Pandore est ouverte et nous avons trouvé les revenus
Mais l'argent gagné n'est pas retourné à la 16e Avenue
La musique country classique se concentre souvent sur le divorce
Prison, whisky, trains et infédilité bien sûr
Mais Blue Moon of Kentucky, Rocky Top et Mountain Dew
Eh bien, ils ne sont rien d'autre que des traditions anciennes sur la 16e Avenue
Parce que les filles disent toutes qu'elles luttent mais leurs papas paient les factures
Et les garçons pensent tous qu'ils sont Waylon mais ils n'ont jamais pris les pilules
Ils ont des outils professionnels sur leurs ordinateurs portables, des boucles de batterie et un réglage automatique
Alors, qui a besoin de vous, connaissez un studio sur la 16e Avenue
Maintenant, tout semble si déprimant, si stérile et concret
Pour penser à tout ce qui est parti dans notre petite rue à sens unique
Parce que toutes ces petites maisons où tant de rêves se sont réalisés
Eh bien, ils ont été rasés au bulldozer pour construire des condos sur la 16e Avenue.
2:09 Whoopsie!
Soo sad of what "so called progress" does to the precious memories of the heart!
What a statement 😂 stick it to em
Computers killed music
Great song! Hello type in "Ron Howard Cover" listen to Opie sing "The Dance"!
Great song! Hello type in "Ron Howard Palace" listen to Opie sing "Lady"!
Wherever artists create something great -- Grennich Village, Coconut Grove, San Francisco, and apparantly Nashville -- people with money but no taste move in to runi it.
Yuppified, Gentrified -- and Crucified.
He seemed innocent and good-natured, when he sang the original song in his striped rugby shirt. Now, he sounds like a nasty, angry old man. When he said "Now. I work at a church, seeking abssolution for all the horrible country songs I wrote at that time," I first thought he was making a joke. But then he looked like he was dead seriousl
Great song! Hello type in "Ron Howard Cover" listen to Opie sing "The Dance"!