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GALLERY: The Music City During COVID-19: The Ghost Town Of Nashville

During this COVID-19 pandemic, everything is closed in downtown Nashville making for the first time ever a real “ghost town” kind of scene in this normally bursting with country music…

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Photo Nancy Brooks

During this COVID-19 pandemic, everything is closed in downtown Nashville making for the first time ever a real "ghost town" kind of scene in this normally bursting with country music fans and tourists downtown.

We captured some images of a Nashville that it seems like time has forgotten, if just for a little while.

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.