Tap a numbered dot and listen.
I-40 across Tennessee starts at the Ryman and ends at Sun Studio, with Loretta Lynn, Carl Perkins, and the Waverly train disaster in between. Out in the small towns, Sleepy John Estes was playing the blues in Brownsville long before anyone put Memphis on a record label.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.