In which we talk with Mary Mancini about the legacy Lucy’s Record Shop, punk and “alternative” music in the Nashville 90s, and the import of all ages venues. This is such a lovely chat, I am so excited for you to listen!

Lucy’s Record Shop Podcast:
https://lucysrecordshop.com/

Lucy Barks Docum...

I talk with artist Kevin Guthrie about his time in Nashville and his development as an artist even though he gets a little weird about accepting the term. His show, A History of Tofu in America, will hang at the Julia Martin Gallery through the end of April 2022.

Within we discuss all sorts of s...

Today I talk with Caitlin Rose, who recently reissued a 10th anniversary edition of her record Own Side Now.

We discuss music making, living with tricky brains, and being weird kids. It’s a fun, sprawling conversation with an extraordinarily gifted songwriter and musician.

Caitlin Rose Officia...

We are in the middle of a miniseries called Music City Tales From the 1980s, and this is a companion episode that goes deeper into some of the stuff we covered in last week’s exploration of Lower Broad. Next week we’ll run part two of that episode, but for now we’re going to talk a bit about sex ...

This week we embark on a two part look at Lower Broad; starting with how the area went from being the sort of place most folks didn’t engage with after dark to becoming a budding tourist destination.

Today we talk with the wonderful Carlene Carter. This is not an official installment of Music City Tales from the 1980s, though it’s strongly related. Let’s say that it’s a companion episode.

Carlene Carter is a legendary singer with a career that spans over four decades. She has released a doze...

In March of 1983, WSM launched The Nashville Network, TNN for short. It was an entire television network devoted to country music and programming, and largely produced at Gaslight Studios at Opryland USA. Today we look at how televisions show like Hee Haw, and a phenomenon called “The Rural Purge...

By the second half of the Reagan Decade, Lower Broad was on its way to becoming a tourist destination. An impressive ascent, considering it was more or less a war zone. How did it do it? It replaced “low class” drunks with “high class” ones through investment, selective enforcement, and heavy pol...

In the first of a three part arch about the 1998 Nashville tornadoes, we meet Tom Colletta and Kevin Longinotti — men who were pinned by two of the 20,000 trees stripped, uprooted or blown over on April 16, 1998. We also talk about the time I — a 15-year-old juvenile delinquent from Maine — got K...

I’ve long been a fan of Berman’s music and prose, but I think Menthol Mountains (his blog) is my favorite of all of his outputs. It speaks to me as a person who considers himself thoughtful and big hearted and is profoundly confused by what it is to be a person In These Times. By way of the vario...

Today we’re going to spend some time getting to better know the late Christine “Teeny” Jarret — professional wrestling’s grand dame — by way of talking with her grandson and biographer Brennon Martin.

Christine “Teeny” Jarrett—by all accounts—lived a true Nashville rags to riches story.

Over th...