Footnotes Nashville
Two routes. Dozens of stories. One guide who actually loves this city.
Pick your walk.
Flagship Tour
Two miles. Sixty years of history. From the original Quonset Hut — the studio that launched country music — to Owen Bradley Park, RCA Studio B, and the site of one of Nashville's most infamous cold cases. This is the tour that started it all.
You'll walk the sidewalks where producers, songwriters, and artists built an industry from scratch, and hear the stories behind the buildings that still stand — and the ones that don't.
Nashville's most beloved neighborhood didn't happen by accident. This 13-stop, 1.2-mile walk traces the Civil War fortifications, Victorian estates, and mid-century transformation that turned 12 South into the city's most storied mile.
You'll hear about the families who shaped this neighborhood, the battles planned on these very hills, and how a quiet streetcar suburb became — twice over — one of Nashville's most desirable addresses.
Neighborhood History
Night Tour
Music Row has a daytime story — the hits, the studios, the legends. This isn't that tour. When the sun goes down, the Row gets quiet, and that's when the other stories come out.
This neighborhood has seen more than its share of darkness. A music executive gunned down in his own driveway, a case that stayed cold for years. A songwriter who vanished without a trace. Studios where engineers swear the faders move on their own, and old houses-turned-offices where the last person out doesn't always feel alone on the walk to the car. Behind the polished plaques and publishing houses, there are murders that were never fully explained, rivalries that turned deadly, and a few residents who — depending on who you ask — never actually left.
Music Row After Dark is a night walk through the Row's murders, mysteries, and hauntings, told the way they deserve to be told: on the same sidewalks where they happened, in the dark. I've been digging into these stories for months, and some of them still get under my skin.
Keep an eye out — this one's coming soon. Want to be the first to know? Drop me a line.