Acknowledgments

Playing for tips, a time-honored Nashville tradition, c. 1940s. Saxophonist Louis Brooks is seated front, next to the trumpeter. Other unidentified. Courtesy of Eula Brooks.

Special thanks to the 2004-05 Night Train to Nashville Advisory Committee

Thomas Cain, Carol Crittenden, Charles Dungey Jr., Francis Guess, Thelma Harper, Buddy Killen, Reavis Mitchell, James Stroud, Bob Wilson

Thanks to the following for their help and support

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