What life Was Like 50 years ago in TENNESSEE

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Experience what life was like 50 years ago in Tennessee when the Grand Ole Opry moved from Ryman Auditorium to Opryland in 1974 with Nashville as country music capital and Music Row lined with recording studios where Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, and Tammy Wynette all recorded hits. This documentary explores Tennessee in the 1970s when the state was divided between three Grand Divisions with West Tennessee and Memphis feeling like Deep South, Middle Tennessee and Nashville as state government and music, and East Tennessee with Knoxville and Smokies feeling like Appalachia barely seeming connected. Relive Memphis struggling after Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in 1968 at Lorraine Motel with Beale Street nearly abandoned and only few clubs remaining, Elvis Presley at Graceland performing in Vegas in jumpsuit era declining toward death in August 1977 at age 42 shocking the world, and Stax Records soul music struggling financially closing in 1975. Discover West Tennessee as cotton country with flat delta land where mechanization reduced labor needs and sharecropping system dying, University of Tennessee Volunteers football at Neyland Stadium as religion with Alabama rivalry on Third Saturday in October as grudge match, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park as most visited with Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge as tourist towns. Witness TVA dams providing cheap electricity attracting industry like Alcoa Aluminum, honky-tonks on Lower Broadway with Tootsie's Orchid Lounge purple-painted bar behind Ryman where musicians slipped out between sets, Memphis barbecue as pork ribs with dry rub at Rendezvous, Nashville hot chicken spicy fried, MoonPies made in Chattanooga with RC Cola, and Jack Daniel's whiskey from Lynchburg. Perfect for those who remember regional diversity and cultural pride.

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