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They Came to Nashville Marshall Chapman Foreword by Peter Guralnick The Country Music Foundation Press Vanderbilt University Press Nashville © 2010 by Marshall Chapman Foreword © 2010 by Peter Guralnick All rights reserved Published by Vanderbilt University Press and the Country Music Foundation Press Nashville, Tennessee 37235 First edition 2010 Second printing 2010 This book is printed on acid-free paper made from 30% post-consumer recycled content. Manufactured in the United States of America Frontispiece: Cover of Marshall’s Opry program from her first night in Nashville, January 28, 1967 (courtesy of Gaylord Entertainment) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chapman, Marshall. They came to Nashville / Marshall Chapman ; foreword by Peter Guralnick. p. cm. Includes index. isbn 978-0-8265-1735-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Country musicians—Tennessee—Nashville—Interviews. 2. Rock musicians—Tennessee—Nashville—Interviews. I. Title. ml394.c52 2010 781.642092´276855—dc22 [B] 2010000113 ...

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