In which we talk with Mary Mancini about the legacy Lucy’s Record Shop, punk and “alternative” music in the Nashville 90s, and the import of all ages venues. This is such a lovely chat, I am so excited for you to listen!

Lucy’s Record Shop Podcast:
https://lucysrecordshop.com/

Lucy Barks Documentary:
https://archive.org/details/LucyBarksADocumentaryByStacyGoldate

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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I talk with artist Kevin Guthrie about his time in Nashville and his development as an artist even though he gets a little weird about accepting the term. His show, A History of Tofu in America, will hang at the Julia Martin Gallery through the end of April 2022.

Within we discuss all sorts of stuff, from his times on the road with Pavement and the Silver Jews to how he became fixated on Tofu. Kevin is an extraordinary dude and this was a super fun chat.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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Today I talk with Caitlin Rose, who recently reissued a 10th anniversary edition of her record Own Side Now.

We discuss music making, living with tricky brains, and being weird kids. It’s a fun, sprawling conversation with an extraordinarily gifted songwriter and musician.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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Today we’ll talk with Steven Hale, the great and prolific Nashville Scene journalist. Steven tells us about his reporting regarding the proliferation of fentanyl poisoning and its impact on record rates of drug overdoses in the city.

His piece in the Nashville Scene — “The Other Epidemic: Fentanyl Is Killing People in Nashville at a Staggering Rate” — came out on November 4, 2021.

Since it came out, The New York Times has reported on the trend nationally, indicating that a record number of Americans — 100,000 died from April 2020 to April 2021 – and a substantial reason for that has been the proliferation of drugs cut with fentanyl.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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Behold! The second installment of our two part series on The Bell Witch.

Today weâ€re going to dive into the actual story—well, the QUOTE actual story—and get into many of the details that tend to be omitted in its retelling. Weâ€ll get to know M.V. Ingram, the author of the first book on The Bell Witch, a bit better, and weâ€ll examine theories on what the haunting may have *actually* been. And! I was contacted by one of the highest authorities on all things Bell Witch in regard to last weekâ€s episode, so Iâ€ll share a bit about that.

We’re joined by our pal Sean Nelson in this episode! Thanks so much for lending us your voice talents, Sean!

We also pull heavily from Betsy Philips’ blog Tiny Cat Pants. Particularly these installments:

The Bell Witch and Spiritualism [11.09.2010]
The Bell Witch [07.28.2005]
The Infamous Witch [10.01.2009]

You can find Pat Fitzhugh’s Bell Witch website here: http://www.bellwitch.org/

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In this episode weâ€re evoking spirits, and weâ€re telling old stories. Youâ€ll hear about the Bell Witch, sure, but this story is not about the Bell Witch. You donâ€t need any more of that—itâ€s been done. Itâ€s a tour, itâ€s a movie, itâ€s another movie, itâ€s a documentary, itâ€s a number of different books, itâ€s a number of different episodes of ghost hunter or spooky histories series. The Bell Witch has been done.

This is a story about stories.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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We talk with writer and journalist Craig Havighurst about the history of the Station Inn and its fate after the passing of owner JT Gray. We also discuss what Craig is excited about for the rest of 2021.

In addition to being a writer (he wrote Air Castle of the South: WSM and the making of Music City in 2011), Craig is a staff music producer for WMOT Roots Radio. He is also a regular contributor for WPLN in Nashville and Nashville Public Radio, and he has produced short documentaries for permanent exhibition at the Earl Scruggs center.

Craig has been senior producer, co-host and show journalist for Music City Roots, a weekly Americana radio show for over a decade. Music City Roots is in a production hiatus while the show builds a custom venue in Nashville, which he also talks about in this episode.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

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In which Nashville Demystified RETURNS and catches up with the splendiferous Maggie Rose. We discuss Maggie’s upcoming album Have a Seat, her podcast Salute the Songbird, and some of the lessons she’s learned after a decade and a half in Nashville.

Nashville Demystified is made possible with support by Knack Factory. It is distributed by We Own This Town.

For more with Maggie, we had a chat about Pretty Woman earlier this week on my other podcast Why Are Dads.

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