Heart: Affairs of the Heart
Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 5 July 1980
THE CLOSE QUARTERS in Nashville Tennessee claims to be America's only rock and roll hotel. Bar's open day and night, drugs no problem, you can borrow an amp and run through your solos in your bedroom without the Tupperware convention-ites screaming at the management, and there's a jacuzzi (communal hot tub) in the middle of the dining room.
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