Nashville

Whether you’re on the boat, at the beach, or stuck at work (boo), channel that summer feeling with thirteen of our music editor’s favorite tracks of the season, from across the South and beyond

Lokelani Alabanza channels childhood nostalgia and her forebears in her new cookbook

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to Music City’s green spaces, cultural hotspots, and culinary highlights

With its zany collection of vintage signs and plastic cartoon plates, the year-old outdoor sandwich shop feels like it’s been around forever

Old frames from enviable dead-stock collections get a new, stylish life

The high and the low never tasted so good

Cowboy boots, floor-to-ceiling jewelry cases, a customizable hat bar, and a real bar celebrate Texas and Tennessee

Whether dishing up crispy onion rings, perfectly piped deviled eggs, or sliced-to-order prime rib, the growing restaurant group perfects simplicity

The hottest comic on earth is building more than just a Nashville hub of humor—he’s pulling a parade’s worth of funny people behind him

Forty years of Dollywood, a Broadway show, and a hotel later, Parton is going strong at eighty

Six years after his death, a new biography examines the talent, charm, and heartbreak of the man behind the music

New Orleans’s buzziest hotelier puts down roots in Music City

Nashville’s greatest new honky-tonk is a seventy-five-year-old downtown landmark

Vince Gill, Bill Anderson, Ashley McBryde, long-serving employees, and more Opry insiders speak to a dozen-plus moments that cemented the institution as country music’s biggest stage

The Michelin Guide canvassed six new states across the region for its selections, including a two-star designation for Emeril’s in New Orleans

As the Commodores ride high, a long-suffering supporter dares to dream

Redemption Bar on Lower Broadway welcomes all with NA drinks and singer-songwriter performances. Plus: Get a recipe for McBryde’s alcohol-free Earl Grey Old-Fashioned.

Through his vast vinyl collection, the singer-songwriter celebrates an inherited love of music

The Americana singer and passionate gardener returns with a leaner, rootsier sound that’s Willie Nelson–approved

A sense of offbeat fun informs Nashville’s Fancypants and its cast of playful drinks—including this perfect summer-to-fall sipper