These articles usually start with a chance find, and then basic research to block in the timeline. John Daniel was unknown to me, even in ...

Odell McLeod was known by his stage name Mac Odell. He was a country and gospel singer who wrote a number of tunes performed by the Stan...

In the American slang of the last century "dirt-dobber" meant farmer or an unsophisticated rustic. On CBS the Old Dirt Dobber wa...

Some claim that WLOK 1340AM in Memphis was the second radio station in the Memphis area to air black programming. That's a little dubi...

Everyone knows Sam Phillips because everyone knows Elvis.  But the history of Elvis starts with Sam Philips, and Sam is pretty obscure in hi...

Spider Harrison hosted the Show Soul Countdown on 1510 WLAC-AM starting in 1978. This was a bad ass R&B program that couldn't even...

John Richbourg returned to Nashville in 1946. He'd worked at 1510 WLAC-AM in 1942 and after being interrupted by WWII he returned with ...