In the next few days and weeks

Promote Nashville blog has a lot in the works. We try to take all suggestions by individuals who want their projects or favorite Nashville events highlighted here on our blog, so keep sending them to us. You may very well see it here in the near future.

Our goal is to have a comprehensive site that brings all the great events, bands, troupes, art houses, bars, clubs, and boutiques together with those individuals who make Nashville the vibrant, metropolitan city I see it transforming into.

In the next few days we are interviewing some of Nashville's most successful tattooists. These tattooists will be discussing their careers, showing off the work they are most proud of and giving you tips on how to have the best experience once you walk into a shop. You can look for that video late next week!

Every city, including Nashville, has various "BEST OF" awards. As if there were not enough, we are preparing to partner up with some locals to do a video "consumer reports" style awards. The first is going into production tonight, so we hope to have it available within two weeks.

There are also a lot of DJs, clubs, restaurants, promoters, clothiers, musicians, etc. we are setting up interviews with as we speak. For now we have the goal to update this site once a week with new content. We have lots of ideas that we cannot wait to expose you to in the following months.

We also need to add, that this will be a site WITH advertisers and advertising. However, we will never let monetary issues trump quality and you will never have to worry about our reviews or stories being influenced by those who pay our bills. No one gets priority just because they want to advertise. The people at this blog have tried or participated in everything we recommend. Advertisers must meet certain criteria, before allowed to post an advertisement. We also don't want to be a site with tons of advertising space and itty bitty content. We will be content RICH!

We are looking forward to the next few weeks as everything starts to take shape!

My Personal Favorite Nutrition Program

One of the things I want to do with this blog is promote well being. Precision Nutrition had some amazing reviews, so I ordered my copy about a year ago. The recipes are numerous and quite good, the plan is easy, and the science is backed up with lots of references. This is not Nashville specific, but with Nashville being one of the least healthy cities in the country, I thought it couldn't hurt.

One day soon, I am going to interview a local fitness expert or two that will help Nashville get back on the right track. There are plenty of them, so if you have any suggestions, let me know.

Chris Weaver Band--Blues and Rock and Roll

Every once in a while cities produce bands that are above the bar. Chris Weaver Band plays cover songs around town at crowded venues like The Stage and Tin Roof on their busiest nights because they continuously pack in the people who want to listen to Chris belt out some of the best interpretations of popular music in this city. If your lucky and listening closely, you will also hear CWB play a great song you may have never heard before. It is probably one of their originals like Standing in Line featured in this, Promote Nashville's first, blog entry.

One of my favorite things about CWB is that they don't have a set-in-stone list of songs, so every show is different. Tom Petty almost always comes up and you'll never get through a night without hearing Nashville's favorite Journey cover. One of 2008's most popular songs by Kid Rock, All Summer Long, seems to also grace every show, too.

The Chris Weaver Band is currently available for private events, so invite them to your party and be able tell folks "I knew them when..."

Weaver and his band mates are well above the bar, even for the cutthroat town of Nashville. They play almost every Friday at Tin Roof2 in Franklin, Saturday at Tin Roof in Nashville, and Sundays at The Stage. All shows start at 10pm.

Chris Weaver is:
Chris Weaver - Vocals, Guitar
Cade Doyle - Guitar
Eric Kinny - Keys
Cornelius "Corn" Perry - Bass
Geoff "Manboy" Ramsey - Percussion, Vocals, Harp

Find more information at: http://www.myspace.com/chrisweavermusic


Standing In Line from Jake Stein on Vimeo