Tennessee travel – Lonely Planet | USA, North America

Most states have one official state song. Tennessee has 10! And there’s a reason for that: Tennessee has music deep within its soul. Here, the folk music of the Scots-Irish in the eastern mountains combined with the bluesy rhythms of the African Americans in the western Delta to give birth to the modern country music that makes Nashville famous.

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