What was the Nashville bar scene like back then?
Demonbreun Street [near Music Row] was like wax museums and the Spaghetti Deli. In fact, I had a job at the Spaghetti Deli singing on weekends. I went to my dad’s wedding, and the guy who was running the Spaghetti Deli … must have been really high or something the day I told him I was going … because I came back the next weekend to play, and I didn’t have a job anymore. There was a guy up sitting up there singing in my shift. And [the manager] said, “See ya. You didn’t show up.” And I said, “I told you I was going to my dad’s wedding!” And I sang at Gilley’s beer garden, where there’s that big building up the street now. I made $7 an hour, and there was no action. Nobody tipped. Now, Demonbreun is the popular bar scene. It’s the trendy, hip place to go, where people in the industry go. I was reading an old newspaper article that said you met your husband Ted back then, and he was also playing for tips on the same street. What are your most vivid memories of that time? I’ll never fo
