Nashville Demystified

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 ex…

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, w…

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, …

Today we’ll talk with Steven Hale, the great and prolific Nashville Scene journalist. Steven tells us about his reporting regarding the proliferation of fentanyl poisoning and its impact on record…

Behold! The second installment of our two part series on The Bell Witch.

Today weâ€re going to dive into the actual story—well, the QUOTE actual story—and get into many of the details that ten…

In this episode weâ€re evoking spirits, and weâ€re telling old stories. Youâ€ll hear about the Bell Witch, sure, but this story is not about the Bell Witch. You donâ€t need any more of that—it 

We talk with writer and journalist Craig Havighurst about the history of the Station Inn and its fate after the passing of owner JT Gray. We also discuss what Craig is excited about for the rest o…

In which Nashville Demystified RETURNS and catches up with the splendiferous Maggie Rose. We discuss Maggie’s upcoming album Have a Seat, her podcast Salute the Songbird, and some of the lessons s…

Rebroadcast from September 25th, 2019

Thelma and the Sleaze, for those not in the know, is an all-female queer southern rock band thatâ€s been around for almost a decade. While singer band center o…

Today we talk with author Steve Haruch. We discuss his wonderful new book—which was published by Vanderbilt Press—called Greetings from New Nashville. Steve edited the Greetings, and two of hi…

Today weâ€re going to spend some time getting to better know the late Christine “Teeny” Jarret — professional wrestlingâ€s grand dame — by way of talking with her grandson and biographer Brenn…

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 bi…

This is a rebroadcast of an episode that originally aired on August 29th, 2019. While Alex recovers a lost audio file, please enjoy this wild, wild episode (again or for the first time).

In 1982, …

Tony Alamo — his church Alamo Christian Ministries, his store The Alamo, or the Al-ah-mo, and his wife Susanâ€s dead body — were one of the first phenomena I heard about upon arriving to Nashv…

In this bonus episode, we talk with Tristen Gaspadarek about the Please Vote Nashville voter guide. We dive into the origins of the organization, democratic participation generally, and how the sk…

An episode in two parts, an Interview and an Essay.

Our interview is with Marlene Twitty-Fargo, the drag persona of Tim White. Marlene is the leader of a bad called The Twat Biscuits and is a ton …

As a teenager in 1920s Birmingham, Alabama, Nick Gulas left his job at a bakery to learn the ropes (pun intended) of working in the wrestling business. Once he knew a thing or two, he came to Nash…

I was going to do an episode about Spanish Flu in Nashville—I very well might at some other time—but instead I decided to look at what life was like in the city, and the country at large, in 1…

Itâ€s been a week. Itâ€s been a month. Itâ€s been a year. And itâ€s only April. So I took a break from heavy stuff this week to talk sex in the isolation age with Tessa Lowe of Primrose Path Bouti…

The second in our three episode arch about the 1998 tornados is about the day of the tornado itself. K-Ci & JoJo were huge and the winds were catastrophic. We also revisit last weekâ€s episodes a…