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cmp FEBRUARY 2019 Volume 50 Number 2 Issue 588 News Walt Trott in Nashville Duncan Warwick in London Cashville Editor Duncan Warwick Contributors David Allan, Janet Aspley, Donnie Ayers, Craig Baguley, Tony Byworth, Larry Delaney, Don Cusic, Julie Flaskett, Kelly Gregory, Michael Hingston, Tony Ives, Spencer Leigh, John Lomax III, Adrian Peel, Paul Riley, Alex Rossi, Wayne Smart, Chris Smith, Tom Travis, Walt Trott, Dave Watkins, Jack Watkins New release consultant: Steve Tidbury Assistant editor / Special projects coordinator Kelly Gregory Photographers Patricia Presley, Barry Dixon, Billie McAleer Printed by Micropress www.micropress.co.uk Distributor Seymour International Press Distributors Ltd. 2 East Poultry Avenue London EC1A 9PT Telephone [phone] Fax [phone] Country Music People is published the last Thursday of each month by KICKIN’ CUTS LIMITED 24 Darley Close, Wittering, Peterborough PE8 6EQ, UK Telephone [phone] - 783689 [email protected] www.cmpcountry.com ©2019 Kickin’ Cuts Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means without the prior written per- mission of the Publisher. The Publisher accepts no responsibility for statement of fact or opinion expressed by contributors. The views of the contributors are not necessarily those of Country Music People or its editor. 4 cmp - FEBRUARY 2019 Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman’s Franklin-based property which recently sold for $2.3 million. Thanks to the rapidly growing technology infrastructure, notably the gigabit internet services by Google Fiber, Comcast, and AT&T, Music City has attracted new businesses to the area, and now boasts a non-stop flight to London. Among corporate names setting up shop in Tennessee’s capital city are AllianceBernstein global investors, Qualifacts System electronic healthcare, the Conexess Group staffing firm, Harding House Brewers, Parthenon Publishing, Zeitlin & Company realtors, and now Amazon’s e-commerce operational hub’s here. Besides Titans football and Predators hockey, we’re also wooing new soccer and baseball teams, apart from all the recording and music- oriented hoopla we take pride in. Problem is, along with the boom we suffer both a lack of accommodations for the influx of workers, and an inadequate infrastructure easing access to and fro. While this has brought a heated real-estate market for many, wherein the average house can sell within a month to prospective residents; it hasn’t improved sales for high-end homes and estates such as those being marketed by the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Keith Urban. Remember Kelly’s former mother-in- law Reba McEntire’s waterfront estate in suburban Lebanon, a luxury listing boasting boathouses, stables, tennis court, gazebo and seven-bedroom Southern mansion took over a year to unload, finally selling in July 2017 for $5 million, discounted from her $7.9 million asking price. Clarkson’s $8.7 million lakefront Hendersonville home and property has been on sale two years thus far; while Keith and actress- wife Nicole (Kidman) had to wait two years and reduce their asking fee by a million dollars, to accept a mere $2.3 million for their Franklin-based property (which also means less a six percent realty agent fee, as well).