Restaurant Owner Jim Hagy Discusses Coronavirus Impact
Jim Hagy is a third-generation restaurant owner. His grandfather started Hagy's Catfish Hotel on the banks of the Tennessee River near Shiloh Battlefield after hosting a fundraiser for Tennessee Governor Gordon Browning in the 1930s. https://traffic.libsyn.com/southernamericana/Jim_Hagy.mp3 Hagy's Catfish Hotel near Shiloh, TN has operated for over 80 years. (Trip [...]
Bob Dylan’s Heaven’s Door Distillery Helps Musicians
Bob Dyan is an icon in Americana music. Now he's hoping to place his stamp on the craft whiskey industry by opening a distillery in Nashville. Heaven's Door was created when Dylan and spirts entrepreneur Marc Bushala (Angel's Envy Bourbon co-founder) connected after Bushala learned that Dylan registered a [...]
Urban Cowboy USA, Dakota Shayne, Discusses His ‘Ultramericana’ Music
Dakota Shayne, aka Urban Cowboy USA, is a multi-dimensional artist. He writes and creates his unique brand of music he calls Ultramericana. It's also the name of a new collection of songs he produced and recorded in Nashville. Urban Cowboy USA, Dakota Shane, shares his brand of Ultramericana music [...]
Layla Tucker Blazes Her Own Musical Trail
Layla Tucker's musical roots run deep. The daughter of one of Country Music's leading ladies, Tanya Tucker, and songwriter Jerry Laseter, this 20-year old firebrand, is creating her own musical path. Layla Tucker, the daughter of Tanya Tucker, is making her own way in Country and Americana Music [...]
Steel Guitarist Bruce Bouton Talks About Playing With Country Music’s Elite
Bruce Bouton is one of Nashville's top session and touring pedal steel guitarist. He has played on all of Garth Brooks's studio albums and with many of Country Music's elite artists. RELATED: Welcome to the Southern Americana Podcast After moving to Nashville from his home state of Virginia in 1978, [...]
A conversation with singer/songwriter/actor J.T. Hodges
J.T. Hodges, a singer/songwriter/actor, and native Texan grew up in Fort Worth, spending most of his formative years in his dad's recording studio, Jim Hodges Buffalo Sound. His mom Marsha, an accomplished country singer who turned down record deals to raise her two sons, was also an inspiration to [...]