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Mark Harrison, who has lived in Nashville for a quarter-century, doesn’t come across like a typical Nashville rocker. In fact, you might mistake the guitarist, singer and songwriter for a low-key session cat from the past. Harrison speaks carefully and, when you get to know him, humorously about things like the Nashville music business, Memphis rock ’n’ roll and the imperiled state of modern democracy. He is also a serious golfer who works on his game year-round.
Still, Harrison is one of Nashville’s greatest rockers, and one of the few remaining exponents of Memphis power pop, a form specific to the Bluff City that’s known today via 1970s records by Big Star, Van Duren and Tommy Hoehn. Harrison has led one of Nashville’s finest bands, Snakehips, for more than three decades, and his new solo album