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The History of Knoxville, Tennessee, began with the establishment of James White's Fort on the Trans-Appalachian frontier in 1786. [1] The fort was chosen as the capital of the Southwest Territory in 1790, and the city, named for Secretary of War Henry Knox, was platted the following year. [1]
"Knoxville Girl" Earliest recording [2] 1937: The Carter Family "Never Let the Devil Get the Upper Hand of You" [3]: 4 1938: The Blue Sky Boys "In My Little Home In Tennessee/The Knoxville Girl" [4] [5]: 167 1947 Cope Brothers: Knoxville Girl / She Sleeps Beneath The Norris Dam KING 589 1956: The Louvin Brothers: Tragic Songs of Life [6] (US ...
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States, on the Tennessee River. [15] As of the 2020 United States census, Knoxville's population was 190,740, [16] making it the largest city in the East Tennessee Grand Division and the state's third-most-populous city after Nashville and Memphis. [17]
In 1956, the Louvin Brothers released what is perhaps the most best-known recording of the song on their "Tragic Songs of Life" album. "Knoxville Girl" was released as a single three years later ...
Channon Gail Christian, aged 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr., aged 23, were from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6, 2007, when Christian's vehicle was carjacked.
In late June, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville announced that UT’s expanding College of Music would be renamed after benefactor Natalie L. Haslam, the first college at UT Knoxville named ...
El-Amin, who founded The Bottom on Magnolia Avenue in East Knoxville - named after the neighborhood, which was completely destroyed during urban removal - created the community space in honor of ...
The Wexford Girl" also gave rise to the Appalachian murder ballad "The Knoxville Girl". [3] Unlike other Irish ballads, "Down in the Willow Garden" was initially restricted to the Appalachian region of the United States; folklorist D. K. Wilgus mused that "it is as if an Irish local song never popularized on broadsides was spread by a single ...