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Music Video Filmed Downtown Eagleville
By
GLENDA DYER
Downtown Eagleville was one of the sets for a music video that was being filmed Friday and Saturday in Middle Tennessee.
Local business owners, customers and passersby watched director Dave Hill and his crew of eight, plus one goat, as they shot scenes on Friday around the Cheatham Springs Road and Main Street intersection and in front of the Crosslin building.
The video features Illinois-based folk singer and songwriter William Fitzsimmons, who was to perform at The Basement in Nashville on Saturday night.
Besides his video work, Dave Hill is also a professional still photographer based in Nashville and Los Angeles. He is familiar with Eagleville because he has been here while searching for locations for his still photography.
"I’ve always liked this intersection and this area," he said. "I always used to drive through here, and I thought it would be great for a little home town feel that I wanted for the video."
Fitzsimmons will perform his song "It Is Not True" in the video. He says the song is "like realizing something is not there when you kind of wanted it to be or thought it was."
The video scenario for the song starts with Fitzsimmons on a road trip during a tour when his car breaks down in a remote area. The singer falls asleep in the car and wakes up to find a goat staring through the car window at him.
He befriends the goat, and the twosome hitch a ride together which lands them in Eagleville. In the meantime, Fitzsimmons leaves his wallet behind at a gas station, and an older man is trying to track him down to give his wallet back. The man finally finds the singer at the Eagleville location and gives him the wallet. Then Fitzsimmons gives the man the goat.
"It’s kind of like a random funny friendship story," Hill said.
The video production team had one minor problem to overcome when they were shooting on Friday. The group had hired a goat tamer and a goat but the tamer did not show up. So they stopped by a goat farm along the way, and the farmer rented them a goat for a day for $100, a crew member said.
The goat was pregnant and was not trained, but with a lot of coaxing she appeared to play her part successfully.
Fitzsimmon’s Wikipedia biography says he is probably best known for his song "Passion Play," which aired during a pivotal scene in season three of "Grey’s Anatomy."
The singer, who was raised in Pittsburgh, Penn., has been exposed to music since his childhood. He developed multiple instrument abilities from his parents, who were recreational musicians. Both his parents were blind.
Fitzsimmons learned the piano and trombone during elementary school and began teaching himself guitar during his junior high years. He is also proficient at the banjo, melodica, ukulele and mandolin.
Fitzsimmon’s music career came after completing a master’s degree in counseling and working as a mental health therapist. The songs he writes often include references to personal and family subject matter. He has released two albums, "Until When We Are Ghosts" and "Goodnight."
Hill, who is just getting into music video productions, said the video will probably be shown on the Internet and at Fitzsimmons’ My Space website and possibly MTV could pick it up.