The Disappearance of Patrick "Pat" Allen Guild Part 1: Dreaming of Nashville

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🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Patrick "Pat" Allen Guild moved to Nashville with dreams of making it big in the songwriting business. But things didn't work out as he planned; he spent his time in the city living in its unhoused community, in an encampment near the I-24 overpass. Pat was last heard from around December of 1991—and since then, there's been no trace of him. Now, his adult daughter, Shannon, is trying to work backward to separate the threads of her father's life, and piece together the bits of information she's discovered to find out what, exactly, happened to her father. It's not a pleasant journey for her; her own mother was afraid of Pat, and for good reason. But more than anything, Shannon need to know—she needs resolution.

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0:00.0	This series includes brief but graphic mention of suicide.
0:04.0	It also discusses domestic violence, child abuse, and other forms of violence and drug use.
0:10.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	If you're experiencing domestic violence, you can reach out for support in the US to 800-799 Safe.
0:30.0	This is the Fall Line.
0:44.0	We're back in Nashville for this series.
0:46.0	At the edges of its music scene, Los Angeles and New York aren't the only cities people head to when they have dreams of making it big.
0:54.0	In the southeast, there's Atlanta, of course, but Nashville, Tennessee has its own draw.
1:00.0	It has for decades.
1:02.0	Country dreams are built up on stories of music city, USA.
1:06.0	Now, country music may not have been born in Nashville, but by the 70s, it was a serious industry.
1:14.0	And by the late 1980s, when our story begins, the city had settled into its role as an entertainment powerhouse.
1:22.0	When we brought you our series on the disappearance of Ricky Franks, we told you about Nashville's fanfare,
1:30.0	the multi-day musical extravaganza that's now known as the CMA Fest, the Country Music Artist Festival.
1:38.0	Nashville's website calls the city the songwriting capital of the world.
1:42.0	And country music certainly dominated the radio waves in the 1980s and the stages of the Rhymen or the Bluebird Cafe.
1:50.0	And led hopefuls to music row.
1:54.0	Now, as then, live music is everywhere, spilling out on the Broadway to pull those tourists in.
2:02.0	In 1985, when a man named Patrick Allen Guild arrived in town, he was one of an endless stream of hopefuls
2:10.0	who thought he might make it big in a city with so much room for music.
2:15.0	But things didn't work out that way.
2:18.0	Pat, as he was called, was originally from Arizona.
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