By James Greig
If I had to sum up Nashville in a single word, it would be ‘woooooooooooooo!’
Before I visited this summer, I had never experienced a place which vocalises its excitement with such enthusiasm: people hooting and hollering out of novelty trucks and limos, whooping and cheering as they careened from one honky tonk to another.
Having acquired the nickname ‘Nashvegas’, the Tennessee city has become one of the US’s top destinations for bachelor and bachelorette parties, and its status as the capital of country music is undisputed.
But that’s just one side to it: away from its boisterous downtown, the city is graced with a plethora of excellent restaurants and scruffy-chic dive bars, and one of the most exciting alternative music scenes in the US.