NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville’s neighborhood in the north once served as the home of numerous country music artists, including stars like Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn.
Brian Mansfield with the Nashville Musical History Tour gave News 2 an up close look at where some notable musicians once hung their hats. To start out the tour, he showed News 2 crews Waylon Jennings’ 1966 “Leavin’ Town” record cover taken along Gallatin Pike.
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“As the musicians and artists began to make some real money, they moved a little bit farther out into Madison, which was really the booming suburb in the late ’40s to the early ’60s,” Mansfield explained. “…If you follow the city directories, or where people live, you can see the migration path from Dickerson to Madison to Goodlettsville to Hendersonville — where Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison and in the early years, Taylor Swift lived out in Hendersonville.”
One home on Oakdell Avenue was once the home of the Everly Brothers and their parents.
“They were living here when they recorded ‘Bye Bye Love’ and that record took off and made them big stars,” Mansfield said.
Roughly a mile away on Barbara Drive, you’ll find a home Loretta Lynn lived in in the ’60s.
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Former home of the Everly Brothers (Photo: WKRN)
Former home of the Everly Brothers (Photo: WKRN)
Loretta Lynn’s former home (Photo: WKRN)
Patsy Cline’s former home (Photo: WKRN)
(Photo: WKRN)
“She had her first top 10 hit when she was living in this house, it was called ‘Success,’” Mansfield said. “And then once she had some, she moved out to Goodlettsville for a couple of years before buying the farm out in Hurricane Mills.”
On Marthona Drive, you’ll find the former home of Patsy Cline and her husband Charlie Dick. Although she wasn’t living here at the time, not far from the site of the car crash that nearly killed on Old Hickory Boulevard. However, she did write one of her famous songs while living there.
“The people of the radio would talk about the wreck, they would play the song and having somebody in a car wreck with a song called ‘I Fall to Pieces,’ that’s just kind of radio gold,” Mansfield said. “The song just blew up while she was in the hospital.”
News 2’s final stop was the former home of Jim Reeves, where recording artist and musician George Bradfute now lives. WKRN caught up with Bradfute as he was returning home, and he was willing to show the crew a behind-the-scenes look at the home’s basement, which includes a recording studio and even a bomb shelter. An original piece of tile, featuring a music note from Reeves’ downstairs, also remains.
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“I came out here and looked at it and I didn’t know it was Jim Reeves’ house until we walked in and the guy had a piece of paper and I was like ‘Oh, Jim Reeves,’” Bradfute said. “…It was kind of all renovated and has a gigantic basement, which is perfect for what I do.”
Although Mansfield wanted to respect celebrities’ privacy, he said several members of the “A Team” still have homes in Madison. The group is know for playing behind dozens of notable musicians.
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