Travel: Paul McCartney – Los Angeles to Nashville

Paul and Linda McCartney flew from Los Angeles to Nashville on 6 June 1974.

They had spent three nights in LA, where Paul produced Peggy Lee’s recording of his song ‘Let’s Love’ at Record Plant West.

The McCartneys arrived in Nashville at 8.30pm. The other members of Wings arrived the following day.

Wings remained in Nashville until 18 July, working on a number of songs. While there, they stayed at the farm owned by songwriter Claude ‘Curly’ Putman Jr, which they rented for $2,000 a week. The property inspired Wings’ November 1974 single ‘Junior’s Farm’.

Wings went to Nashville to bond as a band. We’d lost a guitarist and drummer before we recorded Band On The Run, and now we had two new members. So the idea was to rehearse and record a couple of songs, this being one of them. We stayed at the home of a songwriter called Curly Putman, who wrote ‘The Green, Green Grass of Home’. I think he and his wife had gone on holiday, so we had the place to ourselves.

Wings rehearsed in Putman’s garage prior to recording at Sound Shop Studios in Nashville in July 1974. The change in scenery helped inspire ‘Junior’s Farm’.

They just seemed to enjoy being out in the country. They rode horses. I have a pond and they went swimming in it… Paul was very likable, personable. He just seemed like one of us.