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View fullsize A few days back on the Outer Banks to take care of some business. This afternoon I visited one of my favorite trees in Currituck County, a wind-blown soldier that stopped drawing sap years before I ever knew of its existence. To me its shape says eve
View fullsize #CharlieGillingham of Counting Crows kicking off the intro to “Omaha” at this past weekend’s Pilgrimage Fest in Franklin, TN, minutes before the festival was called off due to a threat of thunderstorms. Woodstock it wasn’t, th
View fullsize Cody Brooks and Bee Taylor on stage at The Legendary Kimbro’s in Franklin, TN. The long-anticipated Pilgrimage Festival ended with a bang, or rather a rumble. Thunderclouds rolled in Saturday afternoon and lightning strikes were reported in the
View fullsize From #AmericanaFest 2018: There is simply no artist in the world quite like Fantastic Negrito. While you can throw a lot of comparisons out there — from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Prince, Mick Jagger, Lenny Kravitz, Skip James, Johnny Rotte
View fullsize Another view of Jim Lauderdale. Jim is one of the luminaries behind Nashville's AmericanaFest, which kicks off tomorrow. It's gonna be a busy week around here... @jimlauderdale1 #americanafest2018 #kingofbrokenhearts #jimlauderdale
View fullsize Jim Lauderdale, King of Broken Hearts, Godfather of Americana, multi-Grammy award winner, sartorial maverick, master of the slow-drawl quip, longtime practitioner of T’ai Chi, and all-around treasure of this town. His face belongs on a Nashvill
View fullsize Derik Hultquist, a mightily talented recording artist, songwriter, and unsung hero of Instagram, ponders a lamp on the pedestrian bridge spanning the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville. The traffic you see below in this photo is no joke. I got st
View fullsize New town, new work, new site, new life. Packed up the truck and moved to Nashville, looking for a little change of direction in my career. Stepping out into the unknown is always daunting, but fortunately I have some good friends here and a couple of
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View fullsize “Beachgoers, rudely awakened from their seaside reveries, gather their plastic toys and scatter like crows”. --Page 50, Legends of the Sandbar. #Summerstorms #beachlife #splittone #OBX #outerbanks #KittyHawk #summer2018
View fullsize @ TheBeachHouse. #summerstorm #obx #outerbanks #legendsofthesandbar
View fullsize #legendsofthesandbar @patagoniadc. Tonight, 7-10. Come on out all you D.C. Peeps...
View fullsize #Legendsofthesandbar @patagoniadc. Doors open 7, show starts at 7:30. Food, drink, books, prints, & a fun presentation. If you can't make it follow along on @patagoniadc 's live feed. Yewwww!
View fullsize All you D.C. peeps, I'd love to see you come on out to the Patagonia Store in Georgetown toMorrow night (june 6) for a keynote presentation on Legends of the Sandbar. Free food and drink, DC Surfrider chapter will be representing, and large prints wi
View fullsize Mando #5: “Talk is Cheap”, by @MandoSaenz. This was shot up the street from Nashville's iconic #Exit/in. Got a bit of a Bob Seger vibe to it, unintentional but works for me. This is a killer song about the cruelty of not fully letting go
View fullsize Mando Saenz #4: As I Watch You Slowly Drift Away. Do the words on the marquee really say what they mean through the tinted backseat windows of a limousine what’s the point of making sense when the ride that you’re on is a passing thing
View fullsize Last of the duotones and then it’s time to put some color back into this feed. Included are lyrics to Mando Saenz’s song “Shadow Boxing”, from his upcoming, yet-to-be-named LP. I wish you could hear the melody to this song--it
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Christopher “Chris” Bickford is a Nashville-based freelance photographer and writer. His clients include the New York Times, National Geographic, Time Magazine, Captain Morgan Rum, Milepost Magazine, the Grand Ole Opry, Carnival Music, NPR, and others. He is the author of Legends of the Sandbar: A Life of Surf on the Outer Banks, and his stock work is represented by National Geographic Creative.