The famous Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville, Tennessee June 19, 2013. In Nashville, your waiters are probably musicians, and even corporate bankers have at least one pair of cowboy boots they wear with their power suits. It's Music City USA, the home of country music, of course. But it's also the Athens of the South, so-called because it is home to Vanderbilt, Tennessee State, Fisk, Lipscomb, Belmont and Trevecca universities, just to name a few. REUTERS/Harrison McClary (UNITED STATES)