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'When we were playing in bars without a record, we were aware of having to overcome this stigma of being from Nashville,' says Webb Wilder, talking about the early days of his band, the Beatnecks. 'Why in some cities, people would come right out and say, 'Look, you're from Mississippi, so don't even mention Nashville
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'When we were playing in bars without a record, we were aware of having to overcome this stigma of being from Nashville,' says Webb Wilder, talking about the early days of his band, the Beatnecks. 'Why in some cities, people would come right out and say, 'Look, you're from Mississippi, so don't even mention Nashville
'But, we thought the best way to dispel that was to call the record It Came From Nashville to prove that rock and roll can come from there—besides the obvious outer space connotations.'
Though the Nashville Chamber of Commerce has yet to get behind Wilder in a big way, the bespectacled tree trunk of a man has done much to realign Music City's alternative scene. Weaving a strange brand of swampabilly that's got an earth-shakin' backbeat and a hearty dose of resonant, reverberating guitar sounds that are reeled out nightly by Donnie Roberts, who answers appropriately enough to 'The Twangler.'