The Tennessee Whiskey Trail
"Whiskey is a combination of fire, water, wood, time - and feelings." In this sixth and final episode, step off the Music Pathway and onto the Whiskey Trail!
Podcast · Immersion · On-location documentary
Produced for Tennessee Music Pathways
The Tennessee Music Pathways podcast takes listeners on a more than 1,000-mile journey, from Bristol and the birth of country music to Memphis and the start of rock n' roll.
Produced in an immersive documentary style, listeners hear bluegrass played fast as lightning, country music sung from the heart and traditional Appalachian music performed live in the Great Smoky Mountains. We shop in Elvis' favorite clothing store, bang drums in the studio that made Uptown Funk, and drink whiskey in a distillery housed in a more than 100-year-old former prison. Join us as we discover the Soundtrack of America, Made in Tennessee.
Episodes
"Whiskey is a combination of fire, water, wood, time - and feelings." In this sixth and final episode, step off the Music Pathway and onto the Whiskey Trail!
"It was here, on the banks of the Mississippi River, where music changed the world." In Memphis, music has always been more than a melody and lyrics - it's a movement.
"If you have a story...you have something to sing about." This episode, trace the footsteps of thousands of aspiring musicians as you journey to Nashville!
"Every time you hear the holler in blues, every time you hear the slide of a blues guitar, you are communing with an African ancestor." If you had to pick the singular most influential genre in music history, chances are you'd pick the blues.
"Bluegrass will lift you up and sweep you along like the fast-flowing waters of the Tennessee River...it's foot stomping, hand clapping, blazingly fast songs hotter than a match." In this episode, dive into the world of Tennessee bluegrass and learn why this is a genre of music that can only be truly experienced live.
"Country music is three chords and the truth." In the first episode of this limited series, join award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar as he embarks on a music-themed road trip in pursuit of that truth.
The Tennessee Music Pathways podcast takes listeners on a more than 1,000-mile journey, from Bristol and the birth of country music to Memphis and the start of rock n' roll.
Today we have a live session from Chattanooga blues musician Rick Rushing. We were lucky to catch Rick in an incredibly special and intimate setting at The Moxy, Chattanooga, just Rick, our presenter, producer, and his guitar.
Today we have a live session from Boogertown Gap, an old-time mountain music duo that plays and preserves traditional Appalachian string music just as it would have been heard more than a century ago.
Ed Snodderly is a songwriter with a strong Appalachian sense of place. His songs ring in the old, the odd and in a non-sentimental way Ed calls it American Southern, "'cause that sounds really cool." The charts call it Country/Americana.
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