 In Nashville, he met Harvey Magee, who had started "Hank", the only music magazine in the city at the time.In the early 1970s, Lomax also wrote for the "River City Review" and "Zoo World", monthly music magazines operating out of Memphis and Fort Lauderdale, respectively.In 1980, Lomax, Thom King, and Richard Harbert started the "Nashville Gazette", with Kathy Mattea as the magazine's receptionist.