The Scene
Chattanooga Music Scene · Issue No. 01
Scenic rhythm. River sound.
Chattanooga would not be Chattanooga without the Tennessee River and Lookout Mountain. They have watched the city grow, change its mind, preserve what matters, and welcome different voices. Its music bears the marks of old rooms and new stages, family stories and unexpected friendships, and traditions passed down and given new meaning. The people remember those connections while making new ones of their own. The past is never entirely past here, and the future seldom arrives as a stranger. That is Chattanooga Music Scene.
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Featured stories
Music, people, and memory
Behind the Rhinestones
Dolly Parton’s story is larger than fame. This feature looks beyond the familiar image toward what she built, protected, and gave back.
Continue the storyA little look at what’s new
Musicians, audiences, old broadcasts, the riverfront, and the bridge gather into a living collage of where Chattanooga Music Scene is heading.
Open the featureDo you remember Yesterday’s?
A lost Chattanooga music room returns through stories of performances, after-parties, and the people who remember being there.
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Community
The people behind Chattanooga music
Artists, listeners, photographers, engineers, venue owners, teachers, collectors, and neighbors all contribute to Chattanooga music. Their performances, work, memories, and participation appear throughout the website.
Image notes
Photographs used in the collage
- Bessie Smith portrait. Bessie Smith photographed in 1936 by Carl Van Vechten. Public domain.
- Tivoli Theatre. Historic photograph of Chattanooga’s Tivoli Theatre. Source: Library of Congress.
- Terminal Station. Chattanooga’s former Terminal Station, photographed by Andrew Jameson. CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Yesterday’s/Tomorrow Building. Photograph of the former Chattanooga music-room building, supplied by the site owner; source: National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- Lookout Inn. Historic postcard view of Lookout Inn on Lookout Mountain. Public domain.
- Lookout Mountain Incline. Postcard view showing the Incline’s steep Chattanooga grade; subject located through Chattanooga Public Library, reusable copy via Wikimedia Commons.
- Union Station. Historic photograph of Chattanooga Union Station. Source: Library of Congress.