NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lorenzo Washington, Jefferson Street Sound Museum’s founder and curator, was the guest of honor recently for an event held by the Belmont University Global Honors Program, in which he was recognized for his work in preserving Nashville’s musical legacy. Jefferson Street Sound Museum Vice President Karen Coffee said several guests spoke of Washington’s character during the celebration, including Belmont and Fisk University students who worked with him on the soon-to-be-released documentary “Exit 207,” set to air on Nashville’s PBS station, Oct. 17. During the celebration, Washington received the Global Honors Program Honorable Life Award for his commitment…
Author: Logan Langlois
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Self-built, from the truck to the business, Chicken Shack Express continues to serve Nashville their “famous Smack Ya Mama Chicken” through another Music City summer. With founder, owner, and operator Kenyatta Pumphery and his wife Debbie heading the Chicken Shack food trucks course, the two plan on continuing to serve signature ‘Smack Ya Mama Chicken’ that, according to Kenyatta, Debbie jokes would have been what “made Colonel Sanders a general.” The secret recipe is one that had been used in his family for “probably 30 years”, before being passed down to Kenyatta himself. The…
By Logan Langlois MURFREESBORO, TN — “Yeah Memphis hot, but Nashville buzzin’,” remarked rapper Kandi Lake with a smile. “It’s definitely growing … it’s growing a lot.” Kandi Lake is a rapper based out of Murfreesboro whose music has recently gained significant traction among Nashville and Murfreesboro audiences — Attention that has been far beyond what he expected when first setting out. “It’s cool to see people who have, like, never seen you before… after like, the first song they’re fully invested,” Lake continued. “You can tell when you’ve won somebody over, and it is, like, the most surreal feeling.” …
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN —Jeff Syracuse, Metro’s Council District 15 representative, has vocalized his support for local music venue staple Exit/In, its longtime operator Chris Cobb, and the protection of Nashville independent music venues for some time. Since Cobb’s first announcement that the land upon which the Exit/In stands had been sold by the people he was renting from to the Chicago-based hotel development company AJ Capital, Syracuse has been public with his view that Nashvillians were beginning to become victims of their own success. “I’ve been finding myself saying that more and more,” Syracuse said in a recent…