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The Dec. 22 show featuring vocalizer-songwriter Jason Isbell and his wife, Amanda Shires, at the Germantown Performing Arts Center sold out in a piffling more than 2 hours.

That was much longer than the 14 minutes and 22 minutes Isbell sold out the hall for two shows in January.

Only no one should translate that to mean the Americana music performer is losing his impact 'round these parts afterward three previous 2017 shows in the general area through the Germantown Road/Parkway corridor.

You see, unlike the other shows – the 2 at GPAC in Jan, and headlining the second night of the inaugural Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms in October – there was no warning virtually the upcoming Dec. 22 upshot. The bear witness was announced through social media and our website at noon last Midweek, and tickets went on sale immediately.

And steadily, the spots on the seating nautical chart were X-ed out. By two:02 p.g., Paul Chandler, GPAC's manager, appear all tickets were gone.

The quick sellout for the first show last January led to Isbell and GPAC folks adding a 2d evidence. That may be a bit difficult this time. After playing the Germantown on the 22nd, Isbell and Shires will perform at the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Eye in Huntingdon, Tenn.

Now, I volition never consider myself an adept on routing schedules for concerts, but I'm going to estimate the stops in Germantown and so east up Interstate twoscore to Huntingdon are the last before Isbell and Shires get home to the Nashville area for the holidays.

So, in that location is no indication (or hope, for that matter) of a second bear witness in Germantown this time.

ON THE FM DIAL

OLSON SHIFT:We told you concluding week about Ron Olson's pending move from his longtime seat at the FM 100 control lath to WRVR-FM 104, and his pairing with former co-host Karen Perrin.

I bring this upward in the Outside the Loop column only because the son of Mr. and Mrs. Olson lives in Germantown. And, I'm pretty dang sure there are a lot of his listeners in the suburbs.

The change is interesting. Since both stations are owned by Entercom Communications, Olson noted he is merely moving about fifty feet downwardly the hall from the FM 100 control room.

And virtually a half dozen stops up the dial.

As we mentioned, the alter ends a run of 34 years with Olson waking up FM 100 listeners. Olson's start at the station was in the mid-1970s when it was still holding onto its hard rock status.

And, I suppose his longevity in that fourth dimension slot on the same station through management changes, format trends and a number of co-hosts is a attestation to his popularity on the radio and in this community.

I accept little doubt that enough of listeners will relish the thought of choosing 104 as their morning drive companion to listen to the reunited Olson and Perrin.

But I do have to say that despite iPods, satellite radio, YouTube playlists and other options, I still miss the days of my radio picking upward FM 100 and hearing anthology cuts of "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" by the Allman Brothers or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "4 Way Street" or the long version of "Beginnings" and "I'm Your Captain/Closer to Habitation".

Even if information technology was a LONG fourth dimension ago.

SHORT TRIPS

GERMANTOWN EXIT: The Germantown Planning Commission will consider the latest plans for the sometime Kroger location on Exeter at a Tuesday evening meeting. Whether Trader Joe'due south is one of the tenants remains a mystery.

LAKELAND EXIT: A grouping of Lakeland resident has resisted the growth of the suburb's school organisation, only apparently a land group of school boards likes the look of Lakeland Middle Preparatory School. The school was presented the architectural design award by the Tennessee School Boards Clan.

GERMANTOWN Go out NO. two: At that same state meeting, Bonnie Lee of the Germantown Municipal School Commune was recognized with the statewide Schoolhouse Volunteer Award.

COLLIERVILLE EXIT: Reporter Linda Moore has followed the redistricting of attendance zones for Collierville Schools since the discussion started. She wrote about the procedure thus far, including advancing a Thursday coming together on the matter.

The initial version of redistricting was met with resistance from parents because of how far some students would shift from home. That shouldn't come every bit a surprise to anyone. I can't remember parents EVER standing upwardly during a redistricting coming together, giving a rousing round of adulation and saying "That'due south EXACTLY what we desire" to the first version.

So, it becomes a process. A compromise. And. based on Moore's story from last week, that's exactly what seems to be happening with Collierville's plans.

Clay Bailey is a veteran suburban reporter for The Commercial Appeal. His Outside the Loop column — a perspective and analysis on suburban news — appears online at commercialappeal.com on Tuesdays and Thursdays and in print on Mondays.

Reach Clay Bailey at bailey@commercialappeal.com and on Twitter at @claybailey9.

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