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Steve Wariner discusses his music career and visual art in an intimate interview.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Steve Wariner welcomes Takin’ A Walk Nashville host Sarah Harralson into his home art studio in Franklin, Tennessee, for an intimate conversation that’s part music history lesson and part gallery tour. Best known for writing and recording the country classic “Holes in the Floor of Heaven,” as well as hits like “What I Didn’t Do,” Wariner has spent more than four decades at the center of Nashville’s music scene as a songwriter, session player, steel guitarist, and touring musician. He is also one of only five guitarists in the world to receive the Certified Guitar Player award from Chet Atkins, an honor that speaks to his standing among Nashville’s most respected musicians. On this episode, he opens up about a side of his creative life many fans have never seen: his parallel career as a visual artist. The conversation is timed to Wariner’s new exhibit, “Flipside Paintings by Steve Wariner,” on display at Monthaven Arts and Cultural Center in Hendersonville, Tennessee, through July 26th. Housed inside one of Tennessee’s historic antebellum…

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