Members of the audience dash off suddenly during his show. Others talk on cell phones, read novels or wolf down sandwiches.
John Bontempi takes it all in stride. He strums his guitar and sings another tune near the clanking baggage carousel at Nashville International Airport.
"It took all of history just to make you mine," he warbles from under a dark cowboy hat.
Bontempi is among the 90 or so professional musicians who perform at the airport in its push to add "local flavour," a break from the chain gift shops and restaurants in airports from Miami to Seattle.
"We're the best gig in town," proclaimed Cathy Holland, the airport's director of community affairs and customer service.
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