Sparta grew quickly due to its location along the stage road between Knoxville and Nashville.

Southwest Airlines quickly filled the void by seizing 47 % of the Nashville market and making it a focus city, with American remaining as the second-largest carrier at Nashville.

Under the brothers ’ management, the studio was quickly establishing itself as one of Nashville ’ s most popular.

The band was formed in 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee and quickly gained local popularity while playing at venues such as Lucy's Record Shop and receiving frequent airplay on Nashville college radio.

Offering five hours of live, locally-produced programming each weekday, WNAB was quickly a hit among Nashville viewers, although the station lacked cable coverage in many of the suburbs.

By 1982 the railroad industry was consolidating quickly, and the Seaboard Coast Line absorbed the Louisville & Nashville Railroad entirely.

Disguising his true intentions to all but his adjutant, Major Abner Dowling, and Lieutenant Colonel Irving Morrell, and lying to President Roosevelt, Custer launches his Barrel Roll Offensive on Remembrance Day — April 22, 1917 — and quickly breaks through the Confederate trench lines north of the Tennessee capital of Nashville.

Lucy's quickly became a popular hang-out for local teenagers and the focal point of the early 1990s punk scene in Nashville.

Upon the Oilers franchise's rocky transition into Tennessee, Wycheck quickly adopted Nashville as his hometown ( even before the team officially left Houston ), and thereby became one of the most visible players in the community.

He began rising through the ranks very quickly and by 2000, he was a regular weekly driver at Nashville Speedway USA.

The route was originally constructed over several years ( between 1880 – 1901 ) as the Pensacola & Selma Railroad and quickly became a part of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad network.

The band quickly began recording their self – titled debut with producer Toby Wright in Nashville.

As she grew older, Martin dated Benjamin Jackson Hagman while in high school, before being sent to the Ward-Belmont finishing school in Nashville, Tennessee.

Cousins Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry grew up together in Fort Payne, Alabama, which is about a three hour drive to Nashville, Tennessee.

The city rapidly grew into a large economic center within the Tennessee Valley and was a hub for travelers and cargo between Nashville / Chattanooga and Mobile / New Orleans.

Within a century, it grew to include a mill, tobacco factory, post office, Louisville & Nashville railroad depot and a number of local retail stores.

* Country singer / songwriter Kathy Mattea grew up in Cross Lanes before moving to Nashville, Tennessee to begin her professional career

Throughout the decade the roughness of honky tonk gradually eroded as the Nashville sound grew more pop-oriented.

Potts was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and grew up in Franklin, Kentucky, where she graduated from Franklin-Simpson High School.

Later Earle grew tired of Nashville and returned to Texas where he started a band called The Dukes.

The press grew out of a writing workshop Wolf conducted at a Nashville homeless shelter between 1989 and 1991.

Holliday was born in 1948 and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

It became associated with singers who grew their hair long, wore denim and leather and had a scruffier look in contrast to the clean cut country singers in Nudie suits that were pushing the Nashville sound, with the exception of Gram Parsons & The Flying Burrito Brothers.

* Mike Fisher, professional hockey player for the Nashville Predators, grew up in Bridgenorth

Wes Borland grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, he initially took an interest in becoming a drummer, but because his parents didn't take to the idea of bringing percussive instruments into their household, Borland began taking guitar lessons from a member of his parents ' Presbyterian church.

" Figures from the newspaper's quarterly circulation audits illustrate how true the jibe became through the course of the 1990s, with readership dropping even as Nashville grew dramatically in population.

Harris was born in Linton, Indiana but grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and identified himself as a Southerner ( his hallmark song was " That's What I Like About the South ").

He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

She then attended The University of Georgia, however grew unhappy with the school's large campus, and transferred in 1985 to Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

She grew up in Nashville.

James T. Rapier grew up in Nashville, Tennessee where he was reared by his grandmother, a slave clothes cleaner.

Addams grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

Crook was born in Wichita, Kansas and grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

He grew up in Nashville, North Carolina, and graduated from Northern Nash High School.

Phillip Hill grew up in Nashville, Tennessee.

1, No. 2, July 1970, A Charlton Publication ) attributes this song to Susan Heather ( a pseudonym used by Marian B. Yarneall ), ( c ) 1952, 1965 by Mamy Music Corp out of Paoli, Pa. Later references show copyrights held by Gaylord Program Services, Inc. out of Nashville, TN, but this may be because Gaylord holds the copyrights for " Hee Haw.

The album was a quick breakthrough and because of this Twain performed selected international venues and television shows including two CMA Fan Fair performances with Nashville guitarists Randy Thomas ( co-writer of the song " Butterfly Kisses "), Dan Schafer, Chris Rodriguez, Russ Taff, Hugh McDonald bass player of Bon Jovi, Dave Malachowski and Stanley T., formerly with The Beach Boys.

The Atlanta Thrashers and Nashville Predators both had their full rosters protected because they were the two newest teams, only being in existence for one and two years, respectively.

In the end, Mark chose Amanda Salinas ( the 25-year old Nashville Predators dancer ) because it " wouldn't work out " with Jen, the 48-year old assistant to Jerry Buss.

In 1979 and 1980, the Kelley case was again brought back to the courts because of the busing plan's failure to fully integrate the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.

The cutter fired a shot across the bow of the civilian steamship Nashville as it tried to enter Charleston Harbor during the bombardment of Fort Sumter because Nashville was flying no identifying flag.

As a result, no major population centers were born or developed along the Trace, because of its alignment, between its termini Nashville and Natchez.

In 1965, she and Ritter moved to Nashville, because of his singing and recording career.

The 1997 season in Memphis proved to be almost as disastrous as the prior years in the Astrodome, largely because the arrangement was very unpopular in both Memphis and Nashville.

Not only had the roadbuilders remembered their patron, but Ellington was also backed vehemently by the usually Republican Nashville Banner, the evening rival to the Tennessean, seemingly in part because Hooker was backed by the other paper, but also because he did seem to be the more conservative of the two major candidates.

Kirk Herbstreit posted on his Twitter account that he has moved to Nashville, Tennessee from his home in Ohio because of harassment by vocal Ohio State fans accusing him of criticizing his alma mater directly.

At the confluence, both are already somewhat slack because of the impoundment of J. Percy Priest Dam, a United States Army Corps of Engineers development constructed during the 1960s and named for a former Nashville Congressman.

The impoundment of the reservoir led to major change in residential growth patterns in Nashville during the late 1960s and 1970s because people desired to live near the lake, which is highly developed with boat ramps, marinas, parks and other recreational areas, campgrounds, and even an artificial beach area.

This is largely because the 2002 reapportionment by the Democratic-controlled Tennessee General Assembly removed Williamson County, a wealthy and heavily Republican suburban area south of Nashville, from the Sixth District and added it to the already heavily Republican Seventh District.

Plans to construct a northern loop of Tenn-840 north of Nashville and past Dickson, Clarksville, Springfield, and Gallatin were put on hold since the Tennessee General Assembly ordered the Department of Transportation to discontinue further studies and planning of that highway because of the current state budget problems and the quite high costs of major highway construction in that area.

The film was shot mainly at the 103-year-old former Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, which had previously been used for filming in The Green Mile and Last Dance, and was chosen because of its Gothic and castle-like appearance.

Also because most north / south shipping traffic is funneled through the town utilizing three river crossings that are main routes for rail and road traffic between Birmingham, and Nashville.

I was saddened sometimes because I thought ' I left Nashville, I left all that for this?

During the flood of 1937, the station gained nationwide notice for its coverage of the disaster, which included broadcasting Louisville flood bulletins over the facilities of WSM in Nashville after Lousiville authorities were forced to cut electrical power to the city because of the rising flood waters ( thus forcing WHAS ' own signal off the air ).

Crutchfield believed that Charlotte, not Nashville, could have ended up being the country music capital because of the station's early " Briarhoppers " and " Carolina Hayride " shows, which may have inspired The Grand Ole Opry.

Joe Galante, then-president of Sony Music Nashville, thought that the album's poor sales were because it " strayed musically from what the base had been.