Indie Country Artists Make the Best Of An Uncertain Coronavirus Shutdown
NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected two-week vacation at her parents' house."When am I ever going to get this time again?" she asks rhetorically. "If anything is good out of this situation, it's that.