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Music City Tales From the 1980s: Prologue: Last Ticket to Bonertown

Author
Alex Steed / Knack Factory / We Own This Town
Published
Wed 22 Jan 2020
Episode Link
https://weownthistown.net/shows/nashville-demystified/music-city-tales-from-the-1980s-prologue-last-ticket-to-bonertown/


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 wonâ€t be all politics. Weâ€ll get to know Sheriff Fate Thomas and Mayor Bill Boner a bit better — and Bonerâ€s predecessor, Richard Fulton. Weâ€ll hang out at malls and go to Opryland, and spend time at the Bluebird. Weâ€ll try to understand homelessness, and race and bussing and the music industry and why Broadway was less of a destination for bachelorette parties than it is today. Weâ€ll talk with some of the folks who were there. It will be an incomplete picture, and it will very much be a work in progress. Iâ€ll try like hell to be as accurate as I can be, I want to understand the decade of my birth in music city, and Iâ€ll be honored if you come along or that ride.



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