Tennessee Trails and Byways

If you are visiting Nashville this summer, take an excursion down the Nashville’s Trace Trail: Backstage to Backroads. One of the loops on this trail (don’t worry, it’s all paved highways), takes you to Hickman County, the birthplace of some of that Nashville (and other) music. Opry star Minnie Pearl, fiddlers Howdy Forrester and Paul Warren, jazz musician Dicky Wells, lyricist Beth Slater Whitson (“Let Me Call You Sweetheart”) and other talent came from Hickman County. (And, there is a lot of musical and artistic talent still performing there!) The Man in Black, Johnny Cash had a home here for many years and even wrote and recorded a song about his home outside Nashville, “Saturday Night in Hickman County”.