High gas prices bring the pain to Nashville acts big and small: “To illustrate the situation touring artists now face, [booking agent Keith] Case recalls a recent Ralph Stanley swing into Texas. ‘It was just a straight run, not a lot of geography,’ he explains. ‘He went from home [in southwest Virginia], played three dates that were all closely routed in Texas. He came back and his [roundtrip] fuel bill was almost $2,000.’” [CMT]
it's the economy?
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it's the economy?
it's the economy?



Buried deep in the story:
One artist’s wife came in, and she was so excited [because] she had just traded in their SUV for a hybrid SUV.
There’s something illustrative in there.