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Apocalypso Now by Walter Egan
Known as the “Athens of the South”, Nashville is a musical magnet attracting songwriters and musicians to head on down to this “Music City” to philosophise in song and verse.
So it’s no surprise that a songwriter and musician of Walter Egan’s calibre found himself gravitating there following the life-changing events of his father’s death and his marriage heading for the skids.
Nevertheless, out of destruction comes creation and, with Nashville being a city famed for its co-write practices, a flexible change in working habits as a solo writer found Egan collaborating with resident composers to distil the complex emotions of his life into song; enabling him to shed a skin or two and move forward with his life.