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Save Nashville Home Studios With Lij Shaw On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast
My guest on the podcast this week is Lij Shaw, who’s leading the fight to save not only home studios but all home-based businesses in Nashville.
Imagine that it was illegal for you to record anyone except yourself in your home studio. If you’re a music teacher, imagine that you weren’t allowed to have students over to your house for lessons. Now image that it was illegal to go to the home of the hairstylist down the street to get your hair cut, or the accountant next door to get your taxes done.
There actually is a pace where that’s really happening and believe it or not that place is Nashville. Yes, the Music City isn’t being too kind to music made in home studios these days thanks to a 10 year old ordinance that forbids anyone from operating a business from their homes.
Leading the charge to change this law is Lij Shaw, who not only operates a home studio where he makes his living from, but is also the host of the popular Recording Studio Rockstars podcast.
Along the way Lij has recorded Grammy Award-winning performers such as John Oates, Jack White, Wilco, Adele, and the Zac Brown Band, and the Grammy-winner for Best Roots album in 2015 was mixed in his Toy Box Studio.
During the interview, Lij told me the story of what he’s being going through for the past 5 years battling with the city for equal rights for home studios.
You can sign the petition to save home studios at SaveHomeStudios.com.
If you live in Nashville, you can send an email directly to the city council at BalanceNashville.org.
Remember that you can find the podcast at BobbyOInnerCircle.com, or either on iTunes, Stitcher, Mixcloud, Google Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Deezer, TunIn Radio, and RadioPublic.
