Nashville

Ashes at Leiper's Fork

Special case · ~75 min

Rolling hills south of Nashville, two in the morning. The barn of a famous producer's ranch burns to the ground, and with it the studio where half the town made records. The producer is nowhere to be found. By noon the firefighters know where he is. What they don't know is why he didn't run.

Gravel Road Prayer

Disappearance · ~70 min

Lower Broadway, Saturday night. Geeta Sethi's song has a million plays, and tonight she headlines her first honky-tonk. The crowd is stamping for an encore that never comes. In the alley out back, her guitar case lies on its side, still latched.

The Ridgeline Tapes

Heist · ~70 min

The Gulch, Nashville. For forty-five years nobody heard 'Ridgeline Hymns', the album a country legend recorded in 1979 and locked away. Next month the world was finally going to hear it. On Monday morning the vault shelf is empty: twelve master reels, gone, and the lock untouched.