Goodnight Jim-Bob … Goodnight Mary-Ellen… Goodnight Mama…………. Goodnight Elizabeth. Ike Godsey, the Baldwin sisters, the Recipe, Charlottesville. If you don’t recognize any of these familiar words and names then you probably won’t want to read on any further. I’m on a good old-style road trip through 9 U.S. states, finding a part of America previously unknown to my eyes. Yesterday, leaving the musical fumes of country behind, we motored out of Music City, Nashville, in the early morning haze, heavy fog and mist layered like cotton-batting over the green deciduous hillsides. We headed east on the wide, truck-loaded freeways, escaping Tennessee, a few hours later finding ourselves in the state of Virginia. Every 5 to 10 miles there’s an off-ramp leading to an almost identical collection of gas depo
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