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Pieces of Nashville's Music History Lost in Floods

One week after the devastating floods that hit downtown Nashville, thousands of local artists are surveying the damage.
 
Soundcheck, a popular storage facility for Nashville’s top artists, was one of the casualties of last Saturday’s devastating flooding. Soundcheck houses musical instruments and concert equipment for some of Nashville’s biggest names, including Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban. Urban had to borrow a guitar for his appearance on WSMV-TV’s benefit concert on Thursday night.
 
The facility also housed the equipment for some of Nashville’s session players, some of whom were uninsured. Michael Spriggs, whose credits include albums for Trace Adkins and Faith Hill, among many others, lost much of the memories and instruments from his 30-year career.
 
"At the end of the day, I'm one guy of many who've lost gear there," Spriggs said in an interview with The Tennessean. “But the biggest tragedy is cumulatively. If you put us all together, all our stuff is music history. You're never going to hear that 510 guitar sound from Blue (a LeAnn Rimes album) or Big Time and Dreamin' Out Loud (by Adkins) or the Faith Hill songs."
 
Paisley stored all of the equipment for his upcoming H2O tour at Soundcheck and is in a mad dash to replace the gear. He joked to the Associated Press that his guitar tech is “spending like a broker on the stock exchange floor.”
 
According to Ben Jumper, Soundcheck’s owner, the company has flood insurance but it won’t cover the artists and musicians affected.
 
While artists are assessing the damage, a guitar triage has been set up to dry out the instruments and assess the damage. About 20 volunteers plan to come out and help in an effort to save some of Nashville’s history.
 
Source: Tennessean.com