Tag Archives: Nashville

Pedal Taverns, Charming or Cheugy?

By Macy Wilbanks  CHATTANOOGA, TENN (mocsnews.com) – Have you ever had an intoxicated middle aged woman yell “woo” at you from a moving bar? Welcome to one of the four major cities in Tennessee, where our cultured nightlife is plagued by the 21st century invention of the pedal tavern.   The infamous pedal tavern is a bar on top of multiple …

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Grammy-nominated album shines light on transgender pioneer

By KRISTIN M. HALL, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For decades, Jackie Shane was a musical mystery: a riveting black transgender soul singer who packed nightclubs in Toronto in the 1960s, but then disappeared after 1971. Some speculated she had died, but her legacy lived on among music historians and …

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