Podcasts about Nashville, Tennessee

In Roosic's episode #060 - Cannon Moltz, the conversation leaves the bandstand. The room talks about the stress of getting to a gig and setting up, then about the branding and marketing a working player now has to carry. One voice concludes that "the time spent actually on stage clocked in playing with people" is a small share of the job. Later in the episode comes the story of a year spent working at TPAC in the morning, at a school in the afternoon, in classes at Belmont at night and with bands downtown on weekends.

That gap between the performance and the labour around it is a useful way into the city's podcasts. Most of them are shop talk. Songwriters discuss co-writes and unreleased demos. Chefs discuss hiring, burnout and sobriety. Realtors argue over list prices. Sports hosts spend more airtime on general managers and transfer fees than on highlights. The city's calling cards are all here, music above all, but the shows keep turning them over to see who does the work.

When the arguing starts, it usually starts at the sports desks. The Titans' official schedule records losses in all four of their opening regular-season games between September and October 2026. In September 2026, Nashville SC reported that it sat first in MLS. In early October, The Game Nashville Sports Network was posting episodes such as The Greg Pogue and Darren McFarland Show Hour 1: HEATED Preds debate between the guys, taking calls (10-2-26).

What Nashville is

Nashville is Tennessee's capital, in Middle Tennessee on the Cumberland River. The Census Bureau estimated 721,074 residents as of July 2025 in the Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's "balance" area, a figure that does not cover the whole metropolitan region. Its economy includes healthcare, hospitality, publishing, banking, transportation and music, and the city's FY2026 budget overview names country music as its best-known calling card. For the wider state, go to the Tennessee page.

Musicians talking about the job

Roosic, hosted by K.C. Harris and Brian Graham, pairs live performances with long conversations. The recent episodes run 61, 72 and 87 minutes, and the shows take their time. In #059 - The Prickly Pair, one speaker reflects on living somewhere that is changing so quickly. A host remembers seeing Taj Mahal at about 12 and watching his right hand for two hours, and admits the show has gone on long enough that he can apologise for telling the same story twice. The guests talk about the economics of making a record and wish they could one day "record it the old-fashioned way in a big, great-sounding room with a lot of bleed everywhere." The show suits listeners who want process over polish. A beer is opened on mic amid plenty of detours.

Notable Nashville is the brisker option. Its sessions are recorded in the Acme Radio Live studio at Acme Feed and Seed downtown, and the recent ones run 21 to 23 minutes. These sessions mix songs with a short interview. In EPISODE 211 : ACME RADIO LIVE SESSION 71 (MIKA LYNCH), the guest explains that she is mostly her own sound person and runs her own social media: "It's DIY do it yourself." Jonah Marais, who lives in Franklin, says he is making a country record and wants to be less precious about releasing demos.

The industry side answers that complaint about self-promotion. AIMP: Nashville Pubcast, hosted by Tim Hunze of Big Machine Music, gives an episode to Digital Strategy and Artist Branding in the Streaming Era with Tim Reynolds. There, social media is framed as the cheapest way an artist has to reach a mass audience. Nashville Lifestyles: The Podcast is an archive now, since its newest episodes date from February 2022. Its Music in the City run still holds up. In Music in the City: Walker Hayes, the guest tells how he met a key collaborator in a Smoothie King line while working at Costco.

Kitchens and the people who run them

The working life of Roosic carries straight into Nashville Restaurant Radio. It is plainly about food people rather than food. The interviews are long, with 90 to 96 minutes in recent episodes, and frank. Jason Laiacona- Executive Chef- Miel covers ADHD, drinking and drugs. It includes Still saying he is not a therapist. He also explains that he accidentally deleted the recording and spent three hours rebuilding it from a video with poor audio. Some listeners will want to know in advance that addiction and mental health are discussed openly.

Other episodes are lighter. Hunter Briley arrives with a Caribbean sourdough made with plantains. Later, the talk turns to a newspaper map tracing a tornado's path directly over a house. In Bryan O'Kelly- Executive Chef- Husk, the chef describes moving from Savannah to run the kitchen and then gets drawn into an argument about merging at I-65 and 440. Long sponsor reads and plugs for Still's NARA events take up real time.

Two real estate shows that sound nothing alike

The Talk of Music City Real Estate Podcast, with Carey Ann Cyr and Monty Moy, is made for agents and lenders. In The Marketplace Method: How to Sell Any Home in 10–14 Days with Jonathan Harris :: Ep 244 Talk of Music City Real Estate, the guest argues for underpricing a listing and calling for highest and best offers, and for borrowing what he thinks made 2021 work. The episode with Sheida Gasparian is where geography explains something. She describes landing in Portland, Tennessee, because Sumner County fit the family budget, and the hosts note that she now drives to Williamson County every day. The feed's newest episode dates from December 2025.

Nashville and Beyond is also hosted by licensed agents, the father and son Brian and Zach Copeland, but these episodes drift away from property. The One About Easter moves from sunrise worship in an East Tennessee childhood to an Arkansas egg hunt with a king snake. In The One About Drag, the hosts tell anyone weighing a move, "There's still a great scene here." They also mention driving on a street named for the late activist Bianca Page. In The One About Quilts, a trip to QuiltCon in Raleigh becomes a reflection on queer people finding a place even when they don't fit the mold.

The teams, and who runs them

The Game Nashville Sports Network is a broadcast-style network built from several shows. In Penalty Box Radio 4-8-26: Nashville Predators Playoff Push, Player Performance, General Manager Search, the host is joined by Alex Doherty, the Tennessean's Predators beat writer. They mark the team's first shutout in 120 games and debate what a general manager hire might mean for majority owner Bill Haslam. Greg Pogue's Saturday interviews come from Roy's Meat Service in East Nashville. In One on One with Greg Pogue: Darren Arbet (3-21-26), the Nashville Cats coach walks through the rules of eight-man indoor football, position by position.

Club and Country, with Wes Boling and Tim Sullivan, offers Nashville SC talk with a sense of history. After the 1-0 continental win, one host points out, "No MLS club had ever beaten a Mexican club at the Azteca." A host also admits to worrying about recency bias, because a few weeks earlier they had called a draw with Miami the biggest draw in club history. Pharmaceutical Soccer: Nashville Soccer Podcast is a three-host alternative. In Episode 291: Second Final, the hosts are planning the trip to an Open Cup final.

Titans talk splits by temperament. Football & Other F Words does legwork: in Titans Draft Strategies for Rounds 4 & 5 | Football & Other F Words, a host reports checking with contacts on whether a character-first draft approach comes from Mike Borgonzi. Music City Audible reconstructs a news night in BREAKING: Titans Hire Robert Saleh as Head Coach.

The record, old and new

NashVillager covers a Tennessee legislative measure. April 16, 2026: Protecting kids from online exploitation explains a General Assembly measure that would treat minors appearing in monetized content as child labor. It cites a 30 percent threshold and notes that a prominent family vlogging couple is reportedly selling their Nashville home.

Grand Ole Opry | OTRWesterns.com presents old broadcasts, introduced by host Andrew Rines. Casey Jones (Red Foley)(Prince Albert) | Grand Ole Opry (09-20-52) includes Minnie Pearl's Grinderswitch Gazette and a "mother-in-law sandwich" of cold shoulder and spiced tongue. Prince Albert tobacco ads are embedded in the old shows, and modern ad breaks sit around them.

Nashville Retrospect, hosted by Allen Forkum, pays tribute to reporter Larry Brinton, who learned to type in the Navy before writing obituaries at the Nashville Banner. Skip Nipper’s Nashville Baseball Podcast collects stories from Herschel Greer Stadium and Tom Wilson Park.

Where to start

• If you came for the music: Roosic, #060 - Cannon Moltz. Long, generous and honest about the unglamorous parts of a music career.
• For a kitchen-side view: Nashville Restaurant Radio, Hunter Briley- Owner-The Emeraude Bakery. Warmer than the Miel episode and a good sense of the host's range.
• For soccer with a memory: Club and Country, Nashville SC Salutes the Azteca. A big night weighed against the club's history.
• If you are weighing a move: The Talk of Music City Real Estate Podcast, Real Estate Disruption: Sheida Gasparian's Journey from California to Tennessee :: Ep 243 Talk of Music City Real Estate. Listen for how a budget decided which county she lives in.
• For history as it sounded: Grand Ole Opry | OTRWesterns.com, Casey Jones (Red Foley)(Prince Albert) | Grand Ole Opry (09-20-52).

The Nashville feed on this page plays clips from these shows.