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Jerry Summers: Nickajack Cave - Lost To Progress?

Jerry Summers: Nickajack Cave - Lost To Progress? Friday, December 25, 2020 - by Jerry Summers Jerry Summers Submerged under the waters of Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River below the site of the predecessor to Nickajack Dam, Hales Bar Dam, lies the historical and equally important archaeological lost treasure, Nickajack Cave.  Nickajack Dam was designed to correct the engineering error of the original company, Tennessee Electric Power Company (TEPCO).  TEPCO had erected the Hales Bar Dam in 1913 built on a limestone base that continuously leaked and was unable to be corrected. As a result the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) took over the property after lengthy legal litigation in the 1930s and the problem continued.  Plans developed to remove the Hales Bar Dam and to erect a new dam further down river which unfortunately included the flooding of Nickajack Cave and the placing of a rich source of history under water.  Although the cave area has had a history of hu

There s Only One Charley Pride

C Brandon / Redferns via Getty Images Originally published on December 16, 2020 11:57 am In 1966, Charley Pride s debut country single, The Snakes Crawl at Night, was deliberately mailed out to radio stations without a photo of him. That way, his label strategized, his voice alone would inform the industry s first impression before Pride s African American identity was widely known. On the one hand, this oft-repeated tale underscores the blatant racism of the 1960s country music business and, on the other, the belief that his singing could nonetheless sell itself. Within months, his anonymity had ended and his hits had begun, initiating a phenomenal run of commercial success that would stretch into the mid- 80s, across massive stylistic and cultural upheaval.

The best albums of 2020, No 6: Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud

The best albums of 2020, No 6: Waxahatchee – Saint Cloud Rachel Aroesti In March, Waxahatchee’s fifth album arrived accompanied by a neat narrative hook. Saint Cloud was the first record Katie Crutchfield had made since getting sober – a change that occasioned a move away from rollicking, emotionally volatile indie and toward a calmer Americana-informed sound. But, as Crutchfield spent most of the ensuing promo pointing out, this hardly qualified as a dramatic lifestyle overhaul – there was no addiction to battle, no ravaged organs to restore, no eye-watering debauchery to repent. Instead, she explained that her boozing had led to too many lie-ins. She simply wanted to get back to the “really productive person” she had formerly been.

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