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 dozen albums on her own, and she has recorded as a member of The Carter Family . Over the past few years she has collaborated extensively with John Mellencamp.
Up Next in Season 1
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From Rural Purges to All Nashville Al...
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...
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Music City Tales from the 1980s: Meet...
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.
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Music City Tales… Companion: Legalizi...
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 ...
