Chattanooga, Tennessee

Everything Chattanooga is known for

30 songs mention this city 73 artists from here

Chattanooga, Tennessee, known as the "Scenic City" for its surrounding mountains, ridges, and valleys, boasts a rich musical heritage. It has been a haven for talented music professionals for over a century. The city is home to 73 artists, including jazz legend Bessie Smith and contemporary R&B star Usher. Thirty songs mention Chattanooga, notably Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo," which helped put the city on the musical map in 1941.

From the early 1900s to the 1960s, Chattanooga's Ninth Street, also known as "The Big 9," was a vibrant center for live blues, rhythm and blues, and jazz, rivaling the musical heritage of Memphis's Beale Street. Today, Chattanooga continues to embrace diverse sounds, with live music spanning blues, jazz, bluegrass, pop, and rock found across various venues nightly.

Music in Chattanooga

Songs About Chattanooga

Chattanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller
95%
See Rock City
Rick Trevino
94%
"Have supper at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Diner"
Chattanooga
Corey Smith
83%
"One night in Chattanooga, Tennessee he drew fire from the local authorities"
Chattanooga Lucy
Eric Church
83%
"Oh my, my Chattanooga Lucy"
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
82%
"Pardon me, boy Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?"
Chattanooga
Briston Maroney
81%
"Met a girl in Chattanooga and I think that she might even be the one"
Chattanooga City Limit Sign
Johnny Cash
77%
"The Chattanooga city limit sign"
Chasin' You
Morgan Wallen
70%
"We used to chase that Chattanooga freight"
Monteagle Mountain
Johnny Cash
55%
"between Nashville and Chattanooga"
The Revisionist
Kelsea Ballerini
54%
"In Chattanooga, young love, wasn't ready"
Bury Me in Georgia
Kane Brown
53%
"Ten miles out of Chattanooga"
Jessie Clay And The 12:05
John Anderson
52%
"the train from Chattanooga was comin' by on time"
Chasin’ You
Morgan Wallen
50%
"We used to chase that Chattanooga freight"
My Home’s in Alabama
Alabama
45%
"Somewhere high on Lookout Mountain I'll just smile with pride and say"
Song For Tennessee (Smoky Mountains Sessions)
Conner Smith
45%
"Well, have you ever seen a sunrise up on Lookout Mountain"
There’s No Love in Tennessee
Barbara Mandrell
41%
"Remember up on Lookout Mountain"
Sleeping on the Blacktop
Colter Wall
40%
"High-heel lady spittin' at the nickajacks"
trail of tears
Pitney Meyer
20%
Crazy Train
Ozzy Osbourne
15%
"Historic railroad junction — home of Terminal Station and the Chattanooga Choo Choo"
trail of tears
pitney meyer, mo pitney & johnny meyer
10%

Showing top 20 of 30 songs

Artists From Chattanooga

U
Usher
r-n-b Pop: 82
B
Bessie Smith
jazz Pop: 80
I
Isaiah Rashad
hip-hop Pop: 66
M
Mon Rovîa
folk Pop: 63
E
Eric Turner
r-n-b Pop: 52
G
Glass Hammer
rock Pop: 43
F
Fresh Mind
hip-hop Pop: 43
Y
YGTUT
hip-hop Pop: 42
C
Coathanger Abortion
metal Pop: 40
M
Mitch Rossell
country Pop: 39
R
Roger Alan Wade
country Pop: 38
N
Nick Lutsko
folk Pop: 37
C
Clyde Stubblefield
r-n-b Pop: 35
S
Shaylen
pop Pop: 35
R
Richard Brooks
jazz Pop: 33
V
Valaida Snow
jazz Pop: 30
M
Machines Are People Too
indie Pop: 30
D
Dale Clevenger
classical Pop: 30
H
Husky Burnette
americana Pop: 29
G
George S. Clinton
classical Pop: 28

Showing top 20 of 73 artists

Rivers & Roads in Song near Chattanooga

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Chattanooga.

Tennessee River 11 songs

History of Chattanooga

From Choo Choo to Gig City RoadyGoat

Chattanooga has reinvented itself twice over. Looming over downtown is Lookout Mountain, climbed by the Incline Railway, a funicular opened in 1895 with a maximum grade near 73 percent, among the steepest passenger railways anywhere. Then came the modern twist: in 2010 the city-owned utility EPB lit up one of the first community-wide gigabit fiber internet networks in the country, earning Chattanooga the nickname 'Gig City' and a reputation as an unlikely tech hotspot. A river town between the mountains that went from steam whistles to fiber optics, Chattanooga keeps finding new ways to move fast.

Chattanooga, TN RoadyGoat

Chattanooga is a community in TN.

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Georgia's Two-Hundred-Year Border War RoadyGoat

1818

Georgia and Tennessee have been fighting over one mile of dirt for more than two hundred years, and the reason is water. When Tennessee was admitted in 1796, Congress set its southern border at the 35th parallel. In 1818, survey teams from both states set out to mark the line. Their instruments were bad. One Georgia surveyor reportedly asked the governor for better equipment and was denied. Both teams placed the line approximately one mile south of the true 35th parallel. This became the Nickajack line. That one-mile error matters enormously because the actual 35th parallel crosses the Tennessee River. If the border were corrected northward, Georgia would gain a sliver of access to the Tennessee River at Nickajack Lake, a potential water supply lifeline for metro Atlanta, a city perpetually running out of water. Georgia has tried to move the border at least twelve times: in the 1890s, 1905, 1915, 1922, 1941, 1947, 1971, and again in 2008 during a severe drought. The Georgia legislature has passed multiple resolutions directing the governor to pursue the claim in the Supreme Court. Tennessee has never budged. One mile. Two centuries. Billions of gallons of water. The survey error that a better compass would have prevented is now the most contested state border in America.

3.8 mi away

Ruby Falls

1928

A 145-foot underground waterfall inside Lookout Mountain, discovered in 1928 and now the tallest publicly accessible underground waterfall in the United States.

Lookout Mountain - Point Park

1863

On November 24, 1863, Union forces under General Joseph Hooker fought Confederate troops on the slopes of Lookout Mountain in fog so thick it became known as the Battle Above the Clouds.

3.2 mi away

Chickamauga Battlefield

1863

Site of the bloodiest two-day battle of the Civil War, fought September 19-20, 1863, with over 34,000 total casualties.

8.4 mi away

Chickamauga Dam - TVA

1936

Chickamauga Dam, completed in 1940, was one of the major Tennessee Valley Authority projects that electrified the rural South and transformed the Tennessee River system.

6.3 mi away

Things to Do in Chattanooga

quirky 5.6 mi away
See Seven States at Lover's Leap

From a sandstone outcrop on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain a painted compass rose points out seven states: Tennessee a quarter mile north, Alabama…
nature 2.5 mi away
Ruby Falls

A 145-foot underground waterfall inside Lookout Mountain. Discovered in 1928.

Everything Near Chattanooga

36 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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