Ties that Bind tells the story of Shoe Boots, a Cherokee warrior and farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late [...]
Memphis begins in 1995, when narrator Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee domestic violence and return to the family home in Memphis. [...]
The Hawk's Done Gone collects a series of stories narrated by Mary Dorthula White, a granny woman. Set in East Tennessee from the Civil [...]
Loretta Lynn recorded the song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in 1971. Her autobiography of the same name followed in 1976 and the movie in 1980. [...]
Murder ballads, a subset of the ballad tradition, are narrative songs that depict homicides. Many American murder ballads are based loosely on real-life events. [...]
Nashville dance bandleader Francis Craig (1900–1966) cultivated a regional and national audience from the 1920s through the 1940s via broadcasts on WSM radio, a [...]
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made indelible, but underappreciated, contributions to the Tennessee musical landscape for over one hundred years. In this [...]
Starday Records was the largest independent country music record label throughout the 1950s and ’60s, serving as a springboard for future stars (George Jones, [...]
Join us for Tennessee Talks, a new online discussion group for Tennessee Historical Society members, led by Davidson County historian Dr. Carole S. Bucy. [...]
Country and soul emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama. [...]
