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34 unusual facts about Nashville, Tennessee


Andrea Conte

Following their marriage, she obtained a job with Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, TN, and the couple moved to Tennessee in 1975.

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Audrey Landers

Landers was first noticed with a country song that she wrote and performed at the age of twelve, which led to a Nashville recording contract with Epic Records, a performance on The Merv Griffin Show, and a year-long role on the daytime drama, The Secret Storm.

Ben Harney

Although some sources put his birthplace as Nashville, Tennessee, according to his father's military records he was born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Brooke Annibale

Brooke Annibale (born July 1987) is an American singer/songwriter and musician, originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, and based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cordovas

Cordovas is an American band created in 2011 by musician Joe Firstman based out of Nashville, Tennessee.

Dan Folger

His and his friends' interest in music led to a move to Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1960s.

Darrel Ray

In 1972, he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology/anthropology at Friends University in Wichita, and in 1974 he completed an MA in Church and Community at Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee.

Drag pageantry

Mirroring the format of the Miss America contest, the first national gay pageant Miss Gay America (MGA) was held in 1972 at the Watch Your Hat & Coat Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville's first gay dance and show bar.

Edward Lewis Tullis

Elected as a Bishop in 1972, he presided over the Columbia, South Carolina Episcopal Area and then the Nashville, Tennessee Episcopal Area until his retirement in 1984.

Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee

However, by the 1960s, the statewide diocese had offices in Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville, staffed by a diocesan and two suffragan bishops, one of each stationed in one of the offices (although one of the bishops, Knoxville-based William E. Sanders, was actually a bishop coadjutor).

Eugene Lindsay Bishop

Bishop was born in Nashville, Tennessee to Eugene Edgar Bishop (1861-1889) and Elizabeth Lindsay Crittenden Bishop.

Frank Lawrence Owsley

As an active member of the Southern Agrarians group based in Nashville, Owsley contributed "The Irrepressible Conflict" to the manifesto I'll Take My Stand (1930).

Glencoe I

After Jackson's death in 1840, Glencoe was sent to stand in Nashville, Tennessee, for a fee of $50.

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James Jackson was an Irish-American emigrant who had built up a business in Nashville and started the farm Forks of Cypress in northern Alabama.

Gopinath Kallianpur

Six years after his retirement in 2001 Professor Kallianpur moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he continues to work on mathematics.

Highway of Heartache

Written and directed by Gregory Wild, the film follows the misadventures of Wynona-Sue Turnpike (Barbara Chamberlin, who also write the film’s score) on a raucous and unlikely road to Nashville superstardom.

Jack Meléndez

Meléndez left Puerto Rico in 2004 and joined TNA, then based in Nashville, Tennessee, as a sportscaster and video editor and producer thanks to Dutch Mantel and Jeff Jarrett.

James Carter and the Prisoners

Carter flew to Los Angeles to attend the Grammy Award ceremony and to Tennessee for the benefit concert held in Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, which featured repeat performances by the performers of other numbers on the soundtrack (although Carter himself did not perform).

Jim Photoglo

After his career as a pop star waned, he became a successful country music songwriter in Nashville.

Jody McCrea

He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA, an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country entertainers.

John H. DeWitt, Jr.

John Hibbett DeWitt, Jr. was born February 20, 1906 in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of judge John Hibbett DeWitt.

Karg Brothers

The Karg Brothers are an acoustic rock duo with a country music edge based out of Nashville, TN.

Keith Paskett

Paskett was born Keith Paxton Paskett on December 7, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Louise Dalhl-Wolfe lived many of her later years in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

After matriculating from Rittenhouse High School, she graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee and the University of Denver.

Magdalene program

Magdalene is a recovery program in Nashville, Tennessee for women who have histories of substance abuse and prostitution.

Mary Engle Pennington

Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee; her parents were Henry and Sarah B. (Malony) Pennington.

National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.

(or NBCA) is an African-American Baptist body organized in 1915 as the result of a struggle to keep the National Baptist Publishing Board of Nashville independent.

New King James Version

It was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 130 biblical scholars, pastors, and theologians.

ProDigi

Specifically, at studios in Nashville, Tennessee, where nearly all of the large recording studios used Prodigi machines.

Rosslyn Mountain Boys

Peter was a member of Artful Dodger before opening Wally Cleaver's Recordings in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Tommy Hannum relocated to Nashville and has been Ricky Van Shelton's band leader and an in-demand session player for some years while Peter Bonta and Rico Petrocelli, the last RMB bassist, went on to record and tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter.

Tex Morton

He toured with Pee Wee King in 1952 and recorded in Nashville in March 1953.

Todd Cerney

Cerney died in Nashville, Tennessee on March 14, 2011 from melanoma, a disease with which he had first been diagnosed with in November 2010, following a brain seizure.


1981 Tennessee Volunteers football team

Playing as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the team was led by head coach Johnny Majors, in his fifth year, and played their home games at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee.

19th Tennessee Infantry

The attack on the Federal camp opened at 5:00 A.M., but Col. George Maney's battalion, the 19th Tennessee, and General Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry were sent to scout the Confederate rear in case Buell attempted a landing there.

20 Years After

Filmed principally in north Alabama and southern Tennessee, the low-budget film was initially released under the title Like Moles, Like Rats, a reference to the Thornton Wilder play The Skin of Our Teeth.

2007 UCF Knights football team

With their Conference USA championship, UCF got an automatic berth at the AutoZone Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tennessee on December 29, 2007.

2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team

Dionte Christmas scored 35 points to lead Temple past #8 Tennessee on December 13 88–72.

Alexander P. Stewart

What was left of the Army of Tennessee was sent east and fought in the Carolinas Campaign in 1865, once again under the command of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who placed the Army of Tennessee (by this time fewer than 5,000 men) under the command of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart.

All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Battle of Camp Wildcat

Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's Confederates moved from Tennessee in an effort to push from Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky and gain control of the important border state.

Beasley-Parham House

The Beasley-Parham House is located in the vicinity of Greenbrier, Tennessee, United States.

Benjamin C. Truman

When the Civil War began, he became a war correspondent, then declined a commission in 1862 to become a staff aide to Andrew Johnson, military governor of Tennessee, and Generals James S. Negley, John H. King and Kenner Garrard.

Bob Schultz

He was shot to death at age 55 after becoming embroiled in an argument with another patron in the bar of a Nashville Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

Bonnie Lou

Recently the Tennessee Wig Walk track was featured in a British comedy movie, The Infidel (2010 film) starring British comedian Omid Djalili, Richard Schiff and Matt Lucas.

Bud Hedinger

He worked at WFTV in Orlando from 1986 until 1989 and then worked at a TV station in Nashville before returning to Orlando in 1993.

Bulwark Protective Apparel

The company is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee and owned by VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), the world’s largest apparel company.

Canning Dam

Many old concrete dams are known to suffer from AAR, including Fontana Dam in Tennessee and Pian Telessio dam in Italy among others.

Chicken Truck

The song features Anderson (in first person narration) discussing an experience of getting stuck behind a Georgia truck hauling a load of chickens (Georgia is a major poultry-producing state), on Alabama State Route 65 (a winding, 2-lane highway in Jackson County in the northeast corner of Alabama) heading to Tennessee in mid-July.

Dan Kuykendall

However, reapportionment based on the 1970 federal census caused Tennessee to lose a congressional district.

Dave Serrano

Serrano returned to assistant coaching duties for 1992-94 for the Falcons before going to Tennessee, where he served two seasons as pitching coach for Rod Delmonico.

David Barnes

Dave Barnes (born 1978), singer-songwriter from Tennessee, U.S.A.

Dixieland Delight

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him when he was driving down Highway 11W, a Tennessee road in Rutledge, Tennessee.

George Barber

George Franklin Barber (1854–1915), American architect in Knoxville, Tennessee

Gospel Advocate

The Gospel Advocate also publishes Sunday School materials and operates Christian bookstores in Nashville and Mesquite, Texas.

J. Kirk Richards

Among other locations, Richards work has been shown at the Springville Museum of Art; the Renaissance Center Juried Show in Nashville, Tennessee; the Provo Arts Council Freedom Festival Fine Art Exhibit; the Bountiful/Davis Art Center; at Southern Virginia University as part of its Annual Shenandoah Invitational Art Show; at the Robert N. & Peggy Sears Dixie State Invitational Art Shows in St. George, Utah; and the Museum of Church History and Art.

Jealous Heart

Recorded in Nashville in March 1966 by Trio Los Panchos led by Johnny Albino, "Celoso" entered the Top Ten in Mexico in April 1967 and - ranked in tandem with a cover by Marco Antonio Muñiz - the track reached #1 that summer spending five months in the Top Ten.

Joe M. Rodgers

He started American Constructors in 1979, which built Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center and the Wildhorse Saloon.

Joseph Anderson

Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.

Justin Wilson

Justin P. Wilson (born 1945), comptroller and former deputy governor of Tennessee

Karl Dean

Dean is married to Anne Davis, who is one of the four heirs of the Joe C. Davis, Jr. and Rascoe Davis coal fortunes and a proprietor of the Joe Davis Family Foundation in Nashville.

LBMS

Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, a football stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Livin' Lovin' Rockin' Rollin': The 25th Anniversary Collection

In addition to the three compact discs, The 25th Anniversary Collection includes a booklet containing photographs, a biography by Nashville journalist Robert K. Oermann and comments from band members.

Matt Fulks

Fulks started his journalism career while attending Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, as a play-by-play broadcaster on radio, a producer for WSMV-TV, sports director for WAKM radio and a sports writer with the Review-Appeal.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Never Picture Perfect

Recorded = 1989
OmniSound Recording Studio
(Nashville, Tennessee)
Big Dog Studio
(Wichita, Kansas)
The Pond
(Franklin, Tennessee

Opryland

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center - formerly known as "Opryland Hotel", located in Nashville, Tennessee

Pickwick Lake

The lakeshore plays host to two state parks: Tennessee's Pickwick Landing State Park and Mississippi's J P Coleman State Park.

Pleasant View Farm

Pleasant View Farm containing Samuel F. Glass House, Franklin, Tennessee, with a Mississippian culture archeological site

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Robert G. Jones

In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee.

Shawn Sturgeon

He was a Charles Phelps Taft Fellow and studied Mexican literature and culture while living in Mexico, and a Tennessee Williams Scholar and Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Slim Harpo

In 2012 a Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey Whiskey commercial featured Harpo's song "I'm a King Bee" covered by San Francisco blues band The Stone Foxes.

Stephanie Glance

She was a special assistant at the University of Tennessee under Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest NCAA Basketball coach and was the former interim head coach of the women's basketball team at North Carolina State University, succeeding Kay Yow in 2009.

Tennessee Railroad

In 1991, American country music band The Desert Rose Band filmed part of their music video for the single "You Can Go Home" at the Tennessee Railroad Museum.

TPAC

Tennessee Performing Arts Center, a performing arts facility in Nashville, Tennessee.

WDEF

WDEF-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

William Tripp

Billy Tripp (William Blevins Tripp) (b. 1955), Tennessee artist

WOPI

WOPI-CA, a television station (TV 9) licensed to Kingsport, Tennessee