01: House O’ Pain (feat. Don & April Kendall)
Host and shop owner Mary Mancini sits down with Don & April Kendall of House O’ Pain, also known as the other two “tolerant, accessible adult role model[s]” who ran the place, to…
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02: Schtucket! Schtucket! Schtucket! (feat. Michael Shepherd & Jereme Frey)
How did two high school band-playing goofball rule-followers discover punk, scooch their trombone and tenor sax over just a little to make room for a bass guitar and drum kit, and end up…
03: The Spikes Protect Our Tender Hearts (feat. Christine Hall)
Although Christine Hall found Lucy’s to be a safe space and her story has a happy ending, what she found inside didn’t always prevent her from acting out her trauma in dangerous and…
04: Southside Jonny (feat. Jon Sewell)
Mary sits down with Jon Sewell, who, in the mid-’90s, was a fish-out-of-water mischief-maker at a private conservative all-boys school. He was called “Johnny G” by the older kids and “Troublemaker” by the…
05: Parallel Universe (Feat. Smilin’ Jay McDowell)
Join Smilin’ Jay McDowell, guitar-player-turned-upright bassist from the small town of West Lafayette, Indiana, as he takes you on his journey from watching and playing in bands in the back room at Lucy’s…
06: Upslut (feat. Christine Doza)
Host Mary Mancini sits down with Christine Doza who published her first ‘zine, Upslut, in 1993 to distribute to her classmates and out a predatory male teacher. After hearing from Christine it won’t…
07: Unlocking Memories (feat. Dr. Jamie Noble)
Dr. James Noble is a BFD neurologist at Columbia in New York City with his own non-profit, Arts and Minds, and a seat on the board of the Michele Obama-adjacent Hip Hop Public…
08: World’s End (Feat. Michele Crow)
It wasn’t easy being gay in Nashville thirty years ago. Join host Mary Mancini as she talks to Michele Crow about her personal experiences, digs into the compelling history of Nashville’s gay bars…
09: Book Your Own F*ckin’ Life (feat. bert)
They played in a trailer in the middle of some scary woods, slept on the nasty floor of a club, and blew up snack cakes on a dusty back road with Steve Albini.…
10: Buckley’s Record Shop (feat. Randy Fox)
In 2019, music writer Randy Fox discovered a long-forgotten nugget of info: sixteen years before Lucy’s opened its doors at 1707 Church Street in Nashville, it was home to another record store called…
11: My God Shaves (feat. Corey Kittrell)
Corey Kittrell’s story is similar to that of many of the kids who came to Lucy’s. But if we look through the lens of race, it is very, very different. Not many kids…
12: Chance Encounters (feat. John Rogers)
John Rogers, who first stepped into Lucy’s Record Shop when he was just 14-years-old, is an accomplished writer and photographer who uses his camera to document both the jazz scene and the streets…
13: Kids Today (Feat. Dru the Drifter)
Do you ever wonder what has—and hasn’t—changed in the punk DIY community in the last 30 years? To find some answers, host Mary Mancini spoke with 17-year-old Dru the Drifter, who writes and…
14: Steel Wheels of Life Feat. Dallas Thomas
Dallas Thomas picked up a guitar and became a prolific Lucy’s regular at the tender age of just 14-years-old. We talk about his time at Lucy’s, touring all over the world with Asschapel…
15: 12V Negative Earth Part I, Feat. Joshua Toomey
Joshua Toomey has loved metal since he was a kid. He went to metal shows, played bass in metal bands, and is now host of Talk Toomey, the premiere podcast dedicated to metal…
16: 12V Negative Earth Part II, Feat. Travis Howell
Travis Howell started playing the drums because his dad told him he couldn’t. His first band, No Remorse, was the first metal band to grace the Lucy’s stage and the first and only…
17: Fun Girls From Mt. Pilot, Feat. Cat, Chris, Donnie & Troy
There is no other band more legendary or more inextricably linked to Lucy’s than the Fun Girls From Mt. Pilot. Chris Fox, Troy Pigue, Charles “Cat” Tidball, and Donnie Kendall dressed in women’s…
18: The Vinylist, Feat. Doyle Davis
Doyle Davis’ business cards read “Vinylist,” which is so perfect since he’s been a champion of vinyl as a music delivery system his whole life – as a kid picking through his parents’…
19: House O’ Lucy, Feat. Mary Mancini
In episode 1, we hear from Don and April Kendall of House O’ Pain, who share their personal stories and talk about the origin of the Lucy’s/House O’ Pain collaboration. Then Don and…