The Lucy’s Record Shop Podcast
Hear the stories behind the legendary 90’s Nashville record store and all-ages punk rock club.
“Lucy’s Record Shop has been gone more than three times as long as it existed at 1707 Church Street, but there's a generation of Nashvillians that can't pass this stretch of the street without thinking of it. That just shows the mythic status of the store and music venue that was here for a little less than six years during the ‘90s and specialized in punk and indie music.”
Randy Fox, Nashville Musical History Tour
In the summer of 1992, Lucy’s Record Shop opened in the sleepy southern city of Nashville, TN. For the next six years, this fiercely independent store and all-ages punk club became home to a tight-knit community of the rebellious, the rejected, the anxious, and their allies.
It’s hard to find all the right words to describe all the different types of people who came to Lucy’s, but it’s easy to remember what so many of them had in common. Often uncomfortable or unwelcome in the dominant and oppressive power and class structures of traditional southern homes, schools, and churches, most were searching for a place where they could be themselves, bond over shared values, take comfort in shared experiences, and where their music, art, writing, and activism would be supported and encouraged. So it wasn’t a surprise when an independent record shop with the prominently displayed motto, “No racist, sexist, or homophobic shit tolerated,” became that place.
Join shop owner Mary Mancini as she sits down with the kids who made Lucy’s so special and whose DIY ethic and unfettered creativity left a lasting mark on the Nashville underground music scene.
Welcome to Lucy’s Record Shop.
Get in touch
Have pics, music, or memories from Lucy’s you’d like to share? Guest request or suggestion? Questions? Comments?
Email mary@lucysrecordshop.com.
Lucy at Lucy’s
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