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By Margaret Renkl
Ms. Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer, reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South.
In the South, the school year typically begins in August. By now, the fried-chicken family reunions have come and gone, and the beach trips are fading from memory. And yet, here in the deepest heat of summer, the urge to get out of the city is more powerful than ever. Away from the shadeless streets. Away from the noise. Away from even the ordinarily friendly people, all of them irritable, as tired of the heat and the noise as you are.
So when I got an email from the country artist Tyler Childers — or at least from his marketing team — informing me of a “top secret pop-up show” to be held five days later somewhere in central Kentucky, I promptly registered for the drawing that would determine who could buy tickets.
