The Mighty Diamonds, the golden age of country and Nashville’s reggae gap

The Mighty Diamonds, the golden age of country and Nashville’s reggae gap

If, for some tragic and unforeseen reason, Karl Dean were to lose his ever-loving mind and appoint me to his music council as some Chaplin-esque dictator-for-life, my very first order of business would be addressing Nashville’s “reggae gap.”

Despite being able to find just about any hyphen-heavy genre of music one could hope to find playing in any given number of clubs on any given Saturday — gospel-core, trad-noise, chamberstep, what have you — the genre that, at least in this author’s eyes, is most conspicuous in its absence is reggae. Think about it for a second: When was the last time you even heard about a super-monster-heavyweight show like The Mighty Diamonds coming to Music City?

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