Nashville Demystified

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 …

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 replac…

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 weekâ€s exploration of Lower…

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 destinati…

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

C…

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 Opryl…

Opryland USA was around for most of the 70s, it opened in `72 after three years of concepting and construction. It was around for most of the 90s — it shut its doors for good on December 31, 199…

This is the first of a ten episode miniseries about Nashville in the 1980s.

Let’s get to know Music City city as it was in Reaganâ€s decade, and understand how the hell it got to this place.

It …

I spent an hour with The Weird Sisters before accidentally getting too stoned and having to skip a party. We turned the interview into a galactic sound collage.

Featured in this episode are four W…

Sean Nelson is a writer / music journalist / haver-of-opinions / singer / musician. He wrote for The Stranger forever and ever and talked to some of the very coolest people along the way. If you d…

Anthony Simpkins is the creator of GemsOnVHS. He is a Musicologist and documentarian. Early in their careers, he has captured intimate performances by Lost Dog Street Band, Matt Heckler, Erin Rae, …

Phoebe Hunt is a fiddler, singer/songwriter and yogi. She came to Nashville by way of Brooklyn by way of Austin and we talk about everything from music-as-a-healing-force to past lives.

More f…

Maya de Vitry is, as we establish here, a singer/songwriter based here in Nashville. She released one album – Adaptations — earlier this year and she JUST completed a successful crowdfunding camp…

Today I talk with Jacob Jones who, is a realtor, a communications strategist, a musician and the DJ behind Motown Monday. The later phenomenon—a dance night at the 5 Spot on Monday nights—has g…

Mercy Bell is a singer and songwriter based in Nashville. I think we determined that her genre is pop-folk, or folk-pop, or pop-alt-country, or just regular alt-country, but we also determined that…

Erin Rae is a musician based here in Nashville. She is a delight. Here she shares her history in the town, insights on establishing boundaries as a working musician, and tips on where to get the be…

Bebe Buell is a force of nature. Itâ€s a cliche, but itâ€s the best way to describe her. When sheâ€s in the room, you absolutely know it. She is one hundred percent personality.

She is a musician.…

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 of gravity Lauren “LG” Gilbert doesnâ€t…

Hey, do you remember when it felt like people were seeing religious figures in every day items like—all the time? There’s Mary on toast. There’s Jesus in a pan of bacon. Well back in the 90s a cu…

Nashville Demystified is a show in which I, Alex Steed, get to know this city better by talking with the folks who live, work, agitate and make art here. Today we talk with Steven Hale, a reporter …