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38 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.

Ben Harney

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

Beth Slater Whitson

In 1913, Whitson and her family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she and her sister, Alice, continued to write.

Brad Hopkins

He currently works as a sports radio personality for WPRT-FM in Nashville.

Brother Henry

Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee.

Camilla Urso

In 1855 she and her parents established a residence in Nashville, Tennessee.

Campion Murphy

He is the brother-in-law of Devon O'Day, a Nashville, Tennessee-based songwriter/record label executive/national air personality on Sirius Satellite Radio.

Cordovas

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

Dennis Clifton

After FCC disbanded, Clifton became a studio musician, playing guitar and adding background vocals for musicians 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.

E. Thomas Wood

From 2005 until 2011, he worked as a reporter for NashvillePost.com, a local business and political news website in Nashville, Tennessee, and related publications.

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

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.

Henry Gross

Gross moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1986 and signed a publishing deal with Pic-A-Lic Music, a company owned by Roger Cook and Ralph Murphy.

Herff-Brooks Corporation

It was a successor to the failed Marathon Motor Works of Nashville, Tennessee, and operated with some of the same personnel and equipment.

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 Bogart

From 1877 on, he was engaged as Engineer for many important enterprises, among them the municipal works at New Orleans, Chicago, Nashville and Baltimore; the designs of the parks at Albany, N.Y., the Public State Grounds at Nashville, the West Side parks of Chicago and the park system of Essex County, New York.

Lectionary

The Roman Catholic Mass Lectionary is the basis on which many Protestant lectionaries have been based, most notably the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) and its derivatives, as organized by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT) organization located 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.

Marcus Montana

Lagudi had recorded his debut single, Tell Him I'm Your Man, in secret at Music Mill Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nashville, California

The place was first called Nashville Bar, then Quartzville and Quartzburg, before being named for Nashville, Tennessee.

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.

National Federation of Independent Business

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is a conservative lobbying organization with its headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee and offices in Washington, D.C. USA, and in all 50 state capitals.

Neil O'Donnell

O'Donnell found work as a sports analyst, primarily covering the Titans at WTVF, Nashville's CBS affiliate, from 2005-2007.

Robert E. Cooper, Jr.

Prior his appointment as Legal Counsel to Governor Bredesen, Cooper was an attorney and partner of the law firm, Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC based in Nashville where he dealt in corporate, constitutional and regulatory litigation.

Sharon Higgins

Not long after, she took the very last train from St. Louis to the Union Train Station in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tex Morton

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

The Rugbys

They were then signed to Shelby Singleton's Nashville, Tennessee, record label, Amazon Records, which re-released the single "You, I" in 1969, and the song became a national hit, climbing to #24 on the Hot 100 and #21 on the Cash Box magazine charts.

Winter Meetings

In 2012, the 111th annual Baseball Winter Meetings were held in Nashville, Tennessee from December 3 – 6.


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.

2008–09 Temple Owls men's basketball team

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

25 Minutes to Go

German singer Gunter Gabriel on his Album The Tennessee-Recordings (2003).

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.

Alonso Brito

As a respected songwriter he moved to Nashville in the 90’s to help write songs for Raul Malo and The Mavericks; contributing to the country band’s Grammy-award winning playlists writing for their song “Things I Cannot Change.”

Andrew Stahl

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

Andy Husbands

iQUE became the first New England Team to become world champions of BBQ by winning the Jack Daniels World Championships in Lynchburg, Tennessee in 2010.

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.

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.

Bulwark Protective Apparel

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

Children of Rain

At the encouragement of Music City mogul Buddy Killen, producer of R&B immortal Joe Tex and countless country stars, including Dolly Parton, Dottie West and Roger Miller, Pam and Alan Ross moved to Nashville in late August of 1969.

David Gundlach

Set in the 1930s, a Tennessee hermit throws his own funeral party while still alive.

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.

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander's father, Ebenezer Alexander, was a prominent judge in Tennessee, and his grandfather, Adam Rankin Alexander, was the founder of Alexandria, Tennessee and a member of the House of Representatives from 1823 to 1827.

Fairvue

Isaac Franklin Plantation, also known as Fairvue, a former National Historic Landmark that remains listed on the NRHP in Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee

For LP Fans Only

It is a compilation of material from an August 1956 recording session at 20th Century Fox Stage One, a September 1956 session at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, sessions on January 10 and 11 at RCA Studios in Nashville, two more at RCA Studios in New York, and multiple sessions at Sun Studio.

Fort Loudoun

Fort Loudoun Lake, a man made lake on the Tennessee River, Tennessee, United States

Fort Sanders

Fort Sanders (Tennessee), the decisive engagement of the Knoxville Campaign of the American Civil War, fought in Knoxville, Tennessee, on November 29, 1863

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.

Kelly Holcomb

Holcomb attended Lincoln County High School in Fayetteville, Tennessee, and was a student and a lettered in football as a quarterback, baseball as a shortstop, and basketball and led his football team to the 1990 Tennessee State Championship.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

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.

Mississippi River Trail

Once in Memphis, the route turns right onto Millington Road, right onto Carrolton Road, left onto Benjestown Road, and right onto Whitney Avenue, passing by General DeWitt Spain Airport and over the Wolf River.

Mitch Rouse

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

Nashville, North Carolina

Phil Valentine, nationally syndicated talk radio host and movie producer

New King James Version

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

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

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Ryan Haynes

Ryan A. Haynes (born 1985), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives

Sam M. Fleming

Additionally, he was the treasurer of the Tennessee Historical Society and member of the Tennessee Historical Commission and State of Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission.

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.

StumpJump 50k

The annual event takes place the first Saturday in October on the Signal Mountain, Tennessee, portion of the Cumberland Trail.

Tennessee login law

On June 1, 2011 Tennessee lawmakers passed a new bill that makes sharing login information for sites that provide music and movies, such as Netflix and Napster, illegal.

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.

The Derailers

Seeking greater mainstream success, The Derailers switched to Sony’s Lucky Dog Records for their next release, Here Come the Derailers, and were paired with Nashville A-list producer Kyle Lehning.

WATN

WATN-TV, a television station (channel 25/PSIP 24) licensed to Memphis, Tennessee, United States

WAY

WAYM, a non-commercial Contemporary Christian music-format FM radio station broadcasting to the Nashville, Tennessee market

WBIN

WSAA, a radio station (93.1 FM) licensed to Benton, Tennessee, United States, known as WBIN-FM from 1996 to 1998

WCOA-FM

On November 5, 2009 at Noon, the station flipped to Top 40 as "i100, Today's Hit Music", mirroring similar (and Cumulus owned) contemporary hit radio stations KLIF-FM in Dallas, Texas and WNFN in Nashville, Tennessee.

WDEF

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

William Craig Rice

After his studies at the University of Virginia, he taught at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, at Temple University, and at the University of Pennsylvania; and then undertook graduate studies at the University of Michigan.

Winstead House

John M. Winstead Houses, Brentwood, Tennessee, NRHP-listed, in Williamson County, Tennessee