NASHVILLE, Tenn. — I can’t believe what I just saw.
No, not Jim Colony at “Rippy’s” on Broadway here in crazed Nashville, where the streets outside Bridgestone Arena are teeming with human kind. But rather Joan Baez, the Indigo Girls and Mary Chapin Carpenter (sister of former Post-Gazette writer Mackenzie Carpenter) at historic Ryman Auditorium, where the patrons sit in church pews.
And it was something of a religious experience. All you need to know is that the four opened with a Dylan classic, “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” and closed with The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.