Goodlettsville, Tennessee

Everything Goodlettsville is known for

2 songs mention this city 1 artist from here

Music in Goodlettsville

Songs About Goodlettsville

ride to robert's
jason isbell
10%
Keith Whitley
Morgan Wallen
4%
"Keith Whitley"

Artists From Goodlettsville

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Zach Cornell
country Pop: 4

Rivers & Roads in Song near Goodlettsville

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

Interstate 65 13 songs Cumberland River 10 songs Highway I 40 10 songs

Musical Heritage

Ryman Auditorium — Mother Church of Country RoadyGoat

1892

The Ryman Auditorium, a Gothic Revival brick hall in downtown Nashville (116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, formerly 5th Avenue North), opened in 1892 as the Union Gospel Tabernacle. Riverboat captain Tom Ryman bankrolled it after a religious conversion at a tent revival, intending a space for preaching; it was renamed for him after his death. Its church-pew seating and famous acoustics earned it the nickname 'the Mother Church of Country Music.' The Grand Ole Opry broadcast from this stage from 1943 to 1974 before moving to its purpose-built house; the Ryman fell quiet, was nearly demolished, then restored and reopened in 1994. It's a National Historic Landmark and hosts live shows year-round, the Opry returning each winter.

11.8 mi away

History of Goodlettsville

Old Hickory: It's Not About the Wood RoadyGoat

1918

Roll into Old Hickory and you'd swear the name is about timber or some old industrial trade. And the industry is real: in nineteen eighteen, DuPont threw up the biggest smokeless-gunpowder plant in the world right here on Hadley's Bend to feed the guns of World War One. Tens of thousands of workers, half a million pounds of powder a day. But the name has nothing to do with hickory wood or the plant. DuPont named the town for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, whose tough battlefield reputation earned him the nickname 'Old Hickory.' His Hermitage estate sits just up the road. The powder boomtown is named after a man, not a material.

6.3 mi away

Old Hickory's Cussing Parrot Crashed His Funeral RoadyGoat

1845

Andrew Jackson died at the Hermitage, his home outside Nashville, Tennessee, on June eighth, eighteen forty-five. Two days later, on June tenth, his funeral was held at the house, with mourners crowded onto the porch and out across the lawn. And by the most famous account of that day, the solemn service was nearly stolen by a parrot. Jackson had bought a grey parrot named Poll for his wife Rachel back in eighteen twenty-seven, paying twenty-five dollars for it. After Rachel died, the old president doted on the bird for the rest of his life, and somewhere along the way Poll had picked up language that did not belong at a funeral. As the crowd gathered, the parrot got worked up and let loose what one witness called perfect gusts of cuss words, swearing so loud and so long that the bird had to be carried out of the house. The tale comes from William Norment, who was a teenager at the funeral and did not set it down on paper until he was in his nineties, so historians treat it as a beloved but unverified legend. True or not, it is a fitting send-off for the most pugnacious president the country ever had.

9.5 mi away

The Daily Wire Downtown Office RoadyGoat

Down here in downtown Nashville, a few blocks from the state capitol on Deaderick Street, is one of The Daily Wire's offices. The Daily Wire is an American conservative media company founded in twenty fifteen and headquartered in Nashville. It began as a digital news and podcast operation built around its founders' daily talk shows, and has since grown into opinion commentary, original films and documentaries, a subscription streaming platform called Daily Wire Plus, and children's entertainment. Its presence is part of why Nashville has become a growing hub for media companies based outside the traditional coasts.

11.5 mi away

Grand Ole Opry House

1925

The longest-running radio broadcast in American history, airing continuously since 1925, now based at the Opry House in the Opryland complex.

8.2 mi away

The Hermitage - Andrew Jackson Home

1804

The plantation home of Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, who lived here from 1804 until his death in 1845.

9.5 mi away

Ryman Auditorium

1892

Built in 1892 as a tabernacle for revival meetings, the Ryman served as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974 and is considered the mother church of country music.

11.7 mi away

Lower Broadway Honky-Tonk Row

1940

The strip of honky-tonk bars on Lower Broadway in Nashville, anchored by Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and Robert's Western World, has been the heart of live country music since the 1940s.

11.9 mi away

The Parthenon

1897

A full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition and now a permanent landmark in Centennial Park.

13.2 mi away

Things to Do in Goodlettsville

historical 8.1 mi away
Grand Ole Opry

Country music's most famous stage since 1925. Every legend has played here.
food 10.5 mi away
Prince's Hot Chicken

The original Nashville hot chicken since 1945. The recipe was revenge. Now it's a religion.
historical 11.7 mi away
Ryman Auditorium

The Mother Church of Country Music. Original home of the Grand Ole Opry.
food 12.6 mi away
Hattie B's Hot Chicken

Nashville's modern hot chicken sensation. The line wraps the block. 'Shut the Cluck Up' level will rearrange your afternoon.
food 22.6 mi away
Loveless Cafe

Nashville's legendary biscuits since 1951. The neon motel sign is an Instagram icon.
historical 11.7 mi away
Willie Nelson Museum

Willie's braids his guitar Trigger memorabilia and more in Nashville.
historical 12.0 mi away
Hatch Show Print

One of America's oldest letterpress shops still printing concert posters by hand since 1879.

Everything Near Goodlettsville

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

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