Marcus K. Dowling
@marcuskdowling.bsky.social
Culture, At Large.
Iconoclastic Polymath.
Iconoclastic Polymath.
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted the work Marcie Allen Van Mol, She Is The Music and FEMco's Leslie Fram are up to recently at Anzie Blue, plus the excellent songwriting showcased by HARDY and Jessie Jo Dillon's work on "Bottomland."
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September 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted the work Marcie Allen Van Mol, She Is The Music and FEMco's Leslie Fram are up to recently at Anzie Blue, plus the excellent songwriting showcased by HARDY and Jessie Jo Dillon's work on "Bottomland."
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
Meet me at the Total Experience in one half a hour.
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore's Nashville
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore's Nashville
September 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Meet me at the Total Experience in one half a hour.
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore's Nashville
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore's Nashville
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted Dolly: A True Original Musical" performer Carrie St. Louis and dove a bit deeper into her career and its inspirations.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
August 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted Dolly: A True Original Musical" performer Carrie St. Louis and dove a bit deeper into her career and its inspirations.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I chronicled why hitmakers like Noah Kahan, Ed Sheeran & Alex Warren have arrived in Music City, showcased Corrina, new Tim McGraw, more reasons to stop by Robert's Western World.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
August 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I chronicled why hitmakers like Noah Kahan, Ed Sheeran & Alex Warren have arrived in Music City, showcased Corrina, new Tim McGraw, more reasons to stop by Robert's Western World.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
"Nonchalant, cherry on the top..."
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = H Bar C / Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore Nashville
More soon.
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = H Bar C / Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore Nashville
More soon.
August 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Nonchalant, cherry on the top..."
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = H Bar C / Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore Nashville
More soon.
📸 = Christy Hunter
🌟 = Headline by MM / McKenzie Mitchell
🧥 = H Bar C / Boogie Child
🏨 = Waymore Nashville
More soon.
A continuation of a series explaining how my brain works at any given time.
Upon further review, it's been fun to compile a snapshot of exactly what is happening in here.
Upon further review, it's been fun to compile a snapshot of exactly what is happening in here.
August 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
A continuation of a series explaining how my brain works at any given time.
Upon further review, it's been fun to compile a snapshot of exactly what is happening in here.
Upon further review, it's been fun to compile a snapshot of exactly what is happening in here.
Glad to have two Lower Broadway stories with @hadleyhitson.bsky.social on 1A of 7/24's Tennessean.
cc: Ernest Tubb's Record Shop, SongTeller Hotel
cc: Ernest Tubb's Record Shop, SongTeller Hotel
July 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Glad to have two Lower Broadway stories with @hadleyhitson.bsky.social on 1A of 7/24's Tennessean.
cc: Ernest Tubb's Record Shop, SongTeller Hotel
cc: Ernest Tubb's Record Shop, SongTeller Hotel
For the Tennessean, Lainey Wilson and I spent a little time having a conversation during the opening of "Tough As Nails," her new career and life retrospective exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For the Tennessean, Lainey Wilson and I spent a little time having a conversation during the opening of "Tough As Nails," her new career and life retrospective exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
For the Tennessean, senior dining reporter Mackensy Lunsford and I spent a few days on the Buddy's Backroom level at Jelly Roll's Goodnight Nashville bar and honky-tonk. Formerly solely private, it's now open to the public during weekend evenings.
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
July 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
For the Tennessean, senior dining reporter Mackensy Lunsford and I spent a few days on the Buddy's Backroom level at Jelly Roll's Goodnight Nashville bar and honky-tonk. Formerly solely private, it's now open to the public during weekend evenings.
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
For the Tennessean, I spent time with Jesse Frasure and Jenee Fleenor discussing the composition and songwriting behind Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton's latest disco and adult contemporary-inspired country single "A Song to Sing."
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
July 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
For the Tennessean, I spent time with Jesse Frasure and Jenee Fleenor discussing the composition and songwriting behind Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton's latest disco and adult contemporary-inspired country single "A Song to Sing."
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
Willow Avalon in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
June 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Willow Avalon in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
Louie TheSinger in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
June 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Louie TheSinger in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
Cole Swindell in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
June 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Cole Swindell in Sunday's (6/29) Tennessean.
I spent an afternoon with Country Thunder Executive Producer and Premier Global Productions owner Troy Vollhoffer discussing the past, present and future of festival marketing and tour production.
More soon.
More soon.
June 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I spent an afternoon with Country Thunder Executive Producer and Premier Global Productions owner Troy Vollhoffer discussing the past, present and future of festival marketing and tour production.
More soon.
More soon.
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted Zach Top, must see moments of the summer and fall Nashville concert and event season, plus showcased the rising underground popularity of CieraTheRapper.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
June 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted Zach Top, must see moments of the summer and fall Nashville concert and event season, plus showcased the rising underground popularity of CieraTheRapper.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
ON Saturday, Dasha danced on the bar at the Whiskey Bent Saloon at CMA Fest.
Real Coyote Ugly hours.
It's just another Saturday, really.
More soon.
Real Coyote Ugly hours.
It's just another Saturday, really.
More soon.
June 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
ON Saturday, Dasha danced on the bar at the Whiskey Bent Saloon at CMA Fest.
Real Coyote Ugly hours.
It's just another Saturday, really.
More soon.
Real Coyote Ugly hours.
It's just another Saturday, really.
More soon.
"You got a lot of cred. We go through a lot (of interviews), but you're the one everyone warns us about — you know, mind your p's and Q's around you..."
Thanks, Brooks and Dunn. I sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks, Brooks and Dunn. I sincerely appreciate it.
June 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"You got a lot of cred. We go through a lot (of interviews), but you're the one everyone warns us about — you know, mind your p's and Q's around you..."
Thanks, Brooks and Dunn. I sincerely appreciate it.
Thanks, Brooks and Dunn. I sincerely appreciate it.
For the CMA Fest cover edition of Sunday's (6/1) Tennessean, I spoke to Gabby Barrett, Amazon and Spotify playlist editors, plus Warner Music execs about acts including Barrett, Shaboozey, Tucker Wetmore and Bailey Zimmerman using streaming to achieve superstardom
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
June 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For the CMA Fest cover edition of Sunday's (6/1) Tennessean, I spoke to Gabby Barrett, Amazon and Spotify playlist editors, plus Warner Music execs about acts including Barrett, Shaboozey, Tucker Wetmore and Bailey Zimmerman using streaming to achieve superstardom
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
www.tennessean.com/story/entert...
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I broke down how Nashville's biggest hits have reshaped the music industry into 18-month cycles, offered some shelter ideas ahead of a rain-soaked CMA Fest, plus highlighted new music from Maggie Rose.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
May 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
For my latest Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I broke down how Nashville's biggest hits have reshaped the music industry into 18-month cycles, offered some shelter ideas ahead of a rain-soaked CMA Fest, plus highlighted new music from Maggie Rose.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
An impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, blues, and soul with a mysterious, revolutionary core that cannot be explained but only experienced.
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
An impressionistic, idiosyncratic, and distinctive blend of country, rock, folk, classical, R&B, blues, and soul with a mysterious, revolutionary core that cannot be explained but only experienced.
Ink in Friday's (5/30) Tennessean.
May 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Ink in Friday's (5/30) Tennessean.
Tim McGraw and PRCA Pro Rodeo on the cover of Monday's (5/27) Tennessean.
May 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Tim McGraw and PRCA Pro Rodeo on the cover of Monday's (5/27) Tennessean.
For my Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted the forthcoming Music City Rodeo and CMA Fest, discussed two nights of Eric Church at Nashville's The Pinnacle, plus talked new music from Parker McCollum.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For my Tennessean "Pick" newsletter, I highlighted the forthcoming Music City Rodeo and CMA Fest, discussed two nights of Eric Church at Nashville's The Pinnacle, plus talked new music from Parker McCollum.
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
www.tennessean.com/story/nlette...
When the stars align correctly, you get MCA country performer Louie TheSinger and I finally getting to spend some quality time discussing his career with folks like my Tennessean colleagues @bryanwesttv.bsky.social and more doing the best work to elevate the moment.
May 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When the stars align correctly, you get MCA country performer Louie TheSinger and I finally getting to spend some quality time discussing his career with folks like my Tennessean colleagues @bryanwesttv.bsky.social and more doing the best work to elevate the moment.
Yes, that's Lynn Anderson's 1971 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for "Rose Garden" and Glen Sutton's Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording for co-writing wrote "Almost Persuaded" with Billy Sherrill for David Houston.
More soon.
More soon.
May 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yes, that's Lynn Anderson's 1971 Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy for "Rose Garden" and Glen Sutton's Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording for co-writing wrote "Almost Persuaded" with Billy Sherrill for David Houston.
More soon.
More soon.