“Wanted: The Outlaws” with Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter and Tom Glaser was the first Nashville album certified platinum by the RIAA when the organization introduced that award in 1976.Read more
In 2018, Nashville-based Singer/Songwriter Tim Easton released a song titled “Elmore James” about the slide guitar master.Read more
Folk artist Jim Sullivan, known for haunting music & lyrics involving UFOs and the supernatural, mysteriously vanished in New Mexico in 1975 while on a trip to Nashville, never to be seen again.Read more
While Kris Kristofferson was a struggling songwriter, he worked as a custodian at Columbia Studios in Nashville when Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde (they didn’t meet). Just seven years later, Kristofferson co-starred with Dylan in the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.Read more
Jimi Hendrix made his first television appearance in July, 1965 on a local Nashville station, backing up Little Richard.Read more
