Five Facts About That “Nashville” Song
If you found the song playing over the final minutes of the premiere episode last night of “Nashville” to be absolutely spellbinding, here are five facts about the song and its singers, Clare Bowen and Sam Palladio. Fact Number One: While Bowen’s Scarlett O’Connor—a star-struck waitress at Nashville’s legendary Bluebird Café and the niece of Rayna’s bandleader, Deacon Claybourne (Charles Esten)—claims to have written the lyrics as a piece of poetry in her notebook, it is actually a cover of a song by The Civil Wars that Bowen and Palladio perform. The song in question: “If I Didn’t Know Better,†which appears on The Civil Wars’ 2009 live album, “Live at Eddie’s Attic.”
