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Gibson Garage an 8,000-square-foot shop from the guitar giant that combines showroom with event space and six-string gallery opens at Cummins Station next month. Go inside the new must-see space with a first look here.
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Americana Awards returns
The Americana Music Association salutes songwriting legends, roots wordsmiths and up-and-comers sharing essential stories with nominations to the 2021 Americana Honors & Awards. See who earned a nod in this year s show here.
Morgan Wallen in public view
Three months after Morgan Wallen was filmed using a racial slur immediately disrupting his career and sending shockwaves through the country music industry the genre s newest superstar has been steadily returning to public view. But there are some spaces that aren t welcoming Wallen back yet, at least not completely. This story takes a look at the road ahead for the singer.
Gibson CEO JC Curleigh Talks Pandemic Guitar Renaissance & Gibson s Innovative New App
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Work is underway on a micro-unit apartment building planned for Rutledge Hill.
To be located at 622-626 Third Ave. S. between Lea Avenue and Elm Street, the future eight-story building (pictured) will offer 174 “sleeping units” (kitchens are shared) and about 1,000 square feet of ground-level retail, according to a document submitted to Metro.
An entity affiliated with Seattle-based Eagle Rock Ventures and Nashville-based The Mathews Co. will undertake the project, dubbed Rutledge Flats. Scott Shapiro, Eagle Rock managing member, previously told the
Post a summer-2022 completion is being eyed, with the building to offer about 60,000 square feet.
Berry Hill-based Dewey Engineering and Hastings Architecture, which operates downtown, are handling land planning and design, respectively. R.C. Mathews, also based downtown, will serve as general contractor. Pinnacle Bank will provide financing.
Chris Gerard
Paul Kusserow, CEO of publicly traded home health and hospice care provider Amedisys since late 2014, has promoted two of his top lieutenants, one of them to president.
Getting a bump from the directors of Amedisys, which is headquartered in Louisiana but has a sizable executive office in Cummins Station, are COO Chris Gerard, who is now also the company’s president a title that had been Kusserow’s and CFO Scott Ginn, who has been named an executive president.
Gerard, 54, has been the company’s operations chief since early 2017 and before that was president for the South Central Region of Kindred at Home. Ginn, 52, was promoted to CFO in October 2017 after working as Amedisys’ chief accounting officer and senior VP of finance and accounting, among other roles. He joined the company in 2007.
Pandemic creating sales momentum; ‘we can’t make enough guitars right now’
Gibson Brands CEO JC Curleigh has detailed some of the iconic instrument maker’s plans for 2021, including a multi-use retail and entertainment space at the company’s Cummins Station headquarters.
Speaking to fans of the company ahead of the virtual edition of the NAMM music industry exposition, Curleigh said he and his team are seeing strong momentum in their core business thanks in part to their work to reinvigorate the Gibson brand but also because the pandemic has grown the market for guitar players.
“There’s a new generation of guitarists being created,” Curleigh said in
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