Nashville
36.1622°N -86.7744°W · Q23197
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Nashville. It sits in United States.
Tennessee's signature dish began, by family account, as an act of revenge.
The Prince family tells of a girlfriend who over-peppered Thornton Prince's chicken to punish him, only for him to like it enough to build a restaurant around it. The dish stayed a specialty of Black Nashville for decades before national chains carried the city's name onto menus in the 2010s.
Nashville answered rock and roll by sanding the twang off country music.
Producers including Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley swapped fiddle and steel guitar for strings and background singers in order to win back a pop audience. The style dominated for a decade and provoked the Bakersfield and outlaw reactions against it.