Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors are back on tour in support of "Strangers No More Vol. 2" The first volume rose to the No. 1 on the Americana charts.

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Middle Fork Bottoms is Tennessee’s newest state park, officially opened just this week.

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The Music City Hot Chicken was hot, hot, hot. As they say in Nashville, it’s hot on the inside and hot on the outside. It truly was. But it was also incredibly fun.  

I talked with fest fan Travis Jenkins, East Nashvillians Zach Layne and Andy Moss, both of them members of the Orange Grease Society, and with Austin Smith, founder and owner of Party Fowl, a hot chicken restaurant with several Nashville-area locations.

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(Credit: Wilson County — Tennessee State Fair) Chapel Hart headlines the Wilson County — Tennessee State Fair coming up in mid-August.

Bike Tennessee offers 52 routes to help you discover Tennessee on two wheels.

The 77th annual Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival kicks off thi weekend.

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Memphis big river front park, Tom Lee Park, has undergone a $61 million transformation that’s origin friends, family, and visitors to the bank of Mississippi in droves.

Roaring River Distillery is a family-owned moonshine distillery in Gainesboro, Tennessee. (Photo credit: Roaring River Distillery)

(Credit: Moment Factory) The brand new Kaleidoscope Kavern last river is a one-of-a-kind (and first-of-its-kind) attraction.

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Garrett Boys is brothers Stephen and Russell, and Stepehn’s son, Carter. They perform in Portland Thursday.

The Tennessee Playcation guide offers a Tennessee roadtrip in a toy catalog. In it, you can order building sets (like Legos) of the Ryman Auditorium, the Chattanooga Aquarium, Memphis Zoo, and more.