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We reached out to current and former Scene family for memories about Jim Ridley. The response was overwhelming.

Many of us who were inspired into journalism as young people identified with a certain archetype - the newspaper man, the truth-telling, ink-stained wretch who fought the good fight, loved great stories, and took no guff but had a tender heart. I was lucky to work for an editor like that, except that he has about four times the requisite portion of heart. His name’s Tim Ghianni, and after literally walking the streets and working the beats of Nashville for fifty years, he’s told his story and done so cleverly and winningly through profiles of the coolest figures in the history of Music Cit...

The soul of the Exit/In is one thing that no amount of money or snazzy promotion can buy. It was a true original, giving truly original performing artists a place to shine their art.