WHO
Jami Anderson of jamidesign in Nashville is a Texas gal with a Texas twang and a Texas thang who seems to have stumbled into Nashville on her way back to Austin. But she decided to stay and become a part of the music scene, and the folks in her adopted community are benefiting from her unique talent and passion. Like the lonely German woman played by Marianne Sagebrecht in the cult-classic film, Baghdad Café, she brings joy and love to the unlovable and joyless in the middle of an inde- finable place. You imagine her arriving by bus in a hat, a cowgirl shirt, a knee-high pleated skirt, a pair of fancy boots on her feet, a hopeful smile on her face, and not much else, as her Texassized talent and Austin-steeped love of music consumed all the space in her trunk.

WHAT
When you meet Anderson, you know immediately you’ve stumbled upon a person of unusual candor and electric optimism. But it is her knack for the absurd and the off-color comment that ensures this sunny package is viewed as wattage, not dim-wittedness. She strikes you as a person you’d rather engage in a hilarious conversation about the unsung uses for hairspray than the pros and cons of web design. When she speaks, she seems to look through you, in the same way a blind person can, her focus too great to only concentrate on you. She does not seem lost, but rather cheerfully, openly unfound, unbound, and unlimited.