Dean Dillon met Linda Hargrove when she was playing a show at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe. She was known as the “blue jean country queen.” They stayed up late into the night and wrote a song that would ...

After graduating from Oak Ridge High School in 1973, Rocky Top resident Larry Dean Rutherford hitchhiked to Interstate 40 and caught a ride to Nashville. The rest, as they say, is history. Locals from ...