TN Ledger
DeMain, a longtime resident who possesses a wealth of music knowledge, is the ideal guide for showing folks the sunny and the seedy of the Nashville Sound.
Nashville Scene
Bottom line: Bill lives and breathes music, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of country, pop and rock history. Which is why his latest venture, Walkin’ Nashville, has us so excited. This is a no-brainer for music tourists, but also the perfect stay-cation treat for locals.
Olly Smith, BBC 1 Television
Bill DeMain is a musician, a journalist, and on his brilliant tours, a walking encyclopedia of all things Nashville.
Trip Advisor
Bill DeMain peels back the current facades and helps you see the true reason for Nashville’s reputation and vitality. When knowledge and experience is as deep as Bill’s, the delivery is fresh and honest; you sense he’s in discovery mode every day.
365 Nashville
Whether you live here or are visiting here, you’ll learn something new about Nashville’s music history. Walk, learn and listen.
CMT Edge
A rich retelling of Nashville’s musical history. Throughout the tour, Bill DeMain drew on his own journalistic research along with the sort of nuanced knowledge you can really only absorb by sticking around long enough to collect the stories, see successive waves of change and develop a sense of how to interpret it all.
For All The Likes
Tours run Fridays & Saturdays at 10:30am, from April – December. Private tours for 4 or more are available any time. To book, please contact: bill@walkinnashville.com
You haven’t seen Nashville until you’ve taken the Walkin’ Nashville tour.Southern Living magazine calls it “one of the 10 best tours in the South.”
Hank, Johnny, Chet, Patsy, George, Tammy, Conway, Loretta, Dolly, Merle, Willie … there was a time when country music was on a first name basis with its fans. A time when the streets of downtown Nashville were alive with the sound of backroom guitar pulls, midnight jamborees and the Grand Ole Opry.
Now you can recapture the magic of this golden era on the Walkin’ Nashville Music City Legends Tour. Packed with history, fun trivia and behind-the-scenes anecdotes about your favorite country legends, this two-hour walking tour is designed for music lovers who want to know the real story of how Nashville came to be called Music City.
You’ll see:
The Arcade / Printers Alley / Skull’s Rainbow Room / Ryman Auditorium / Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge / Hermitage Hotel / Country Music Hall of Fame
As well as the former sites of long-lost treasures like:
Captain’s Table / George Jones’ Possum Holler / The Maxwell House Hotel / Ernest Tubb Record Shop / Sho-Bud Steel Guitar Company