Nashville

In the 1960s and ’70s, Porter Wagoner was Nashville royalty. His television variety show helped keep the Grand Ole Opry alive. This month, a new Wagoner album comes out on a rock label, but don’t call it crossover: as Waylon Jennings once said, “Porter couldn’t go pop with a mouth full of firecrackers.” Produced by […]

You may never have heard of Nashville’s RCA Studio A, but you most certainly have heard music that was made there.

Had things been a little different, Jiyayi Suleyman might have been a peshmerga fighter alongside his uncle and other Kurdish troops. Instead he’s a police office in Nashville trying to keep the city’s residents there safe.

Nashville, Tennessee is also known as Music City USA. But there’s more than that. The city is also home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States. Nashville, Tennessee is also known as Music City USA. But there’s more than that. The city is also home to the largest Kurdish community in the United States.

People who live in Nashville are likely to witness a rare event this holiday season: A white Christmas. Several inches of snow are expected to reach parts of Tennessee, Georgia and the Midwest this weekend. Up to eight inches could fall in Iowa and six inches in Illinois and Minnesota. It’s been 41 years since […]