Delicate Nashville singers been done wrong by country air  May
27, 2005  New York: It may be the capital of country music and
the town where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan recorded
some of their finest tunes, but singing in Nashville is actually
a doggone bad idea.  Voice experts and singers say the town,
which sits in a humid, heavily forested bowl where pollutants
and pollens get trapped in the air, is so unbearable for allergy
sufferers that some artists have had to delay their recording
sessions or move.  Nashville is one of the US's biggest
recording centres and is home to thousands of professional
musicians, singers, engineers and producers.  Dr John Overholt,
a local allergist, said about 50 of his patients are singers and
they all complained of the same things: hoarseness, poor tone
and limited vocal range. "They feel they have a lot of trouble
hitting the top end," he said.  Dr Gaelyn Garrett, the medical
director of Nashville's Vanderbilt Voice Centre, which treats
everyone from choir memb