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This Is Nashville Riding Shotgun

We hop into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with one of our fellow Middle Tennesseans. It’s part of our commitment to meeting people where they are, and taking the time to leave the studio to better understand our communities.

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Best of Riding Shotgun: Music Makers & Nashville Confidential

Khalil Ekulona

November 24, 2023

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Traffic in our city is…a mess. But there is a bright side to having more congestion on the streets. You get more time to have a captivating conversation. TIN host Khalil Ekulona has taken lots of rides with some of our fellow Nashvillians for the Riding Shotgun series. Fortunately, not many of the rides have […]

Filed Under: Programs, Riding Shotgun Tagged With: alex barnes, Best of This Is Nashville, chris crofton, DJ Stephany, DTL Jams, luke dick, Paul Loren, Riding Shotgun

Don’t know about the rodeo? What a bunch of bull!

Khalil Ekulona

May 16, 2023

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Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, Khalil Ekulona hops out of the host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with fellow Middle Tennesseans. For this edition, he copped a ride with rodeo cowboy Dakota Brown.

Filed Under: Programs, Riding Shotgun, WPLN News

Feeling the beat with hip-hop producer DTL Jams

Khalil Ekulona

April 3, 2023

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Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with fellow Middle Tennesseans. For this edition, I copped a ride with hip-hop producer Derrick Farrior aka DTL Jams. He throws a weekly hip-hop producers meetup called Beat Street at LabCanna East. We pumped up the jams as we hit the streets of East Nashville and broke down the art of finding the perfect beat! Buckle up!

Filed Under: Programs, Riding Shotgun, WPLN News

Finding peace and patience behind the wheel with a Nashville trucking instructor

Khalil Ekulona

March 17, 2023

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We could all take a breather behind the wheel.

Filed Under: Riding Shotgun Tagged With: Trucking

Rolling with Nashville’s Junior Roller Derby team

Khalil Ekulona

February 21, 2023

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I hitched a ride with members of the Nashville Junior Roller Derby team — co-captains Brigid “Queen B” Davis and Abby “Mighty Duck” Duckworth and their executive director Lea Davis, aka “The Queen Mother.” We checked out a few of the many practice sites they’ve used over the years. 

Filed Under: Programs, Riding Shotgun

Hitching a ride with a tow truck driver

Khalil Ekulona

February 6, 2023

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This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona catches a ride with STR Towing and Recovery driver Billy Jimenez to see the art and zen of hauling cars from one place to another.

Filed Under: Programs, Riding Shotgun, WPLN News

Talking life, theater and the sacrifices artists make for creation

Khalil Ekulona

December 2, 2022

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Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with a fellow Middle Tennessean. In honor of the performing arts theme for this Friday’s episode, native Tennessean Drew Ogles with the Nashville Repertory Theater picked me up at the NPR headquarters, and we […]

Filed Under: Riding Shotgun, WPLN News Tagged With: Nashville Repertory Theater, Theater

Diving into Nashville’s dive bar scene. First stop? The Cobra

Khalil Ekulona

November 4, 2022

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Every other Friday for This Is Nashville, I hop out of my host chair and into the passenger seat to ride shotgun with one (or two) of our fellow Middle Tennesseans. But this week is a little different. Since the topic is dive bars, it’s really best not to ask anyone to get behind the […]

Filed Under: Riding Shotgun Tagged With: Amr Ali, Bar, Dive Bars, Nashville Nightlife, Pablo Caceres, Riding Shotgun, The Cobra, This Is Nashville

Let’s go girls! Take an inside look onboard a Nashville bachelorette party bus

Rose GilbertandAndrea Tudhope

October 21, 2022

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Nashville is known as a bachelorette party destination. But how many locals have actually gotten an up close look at the festivities? This Is Nashville’s producers took a ride, so you don’t have to.

Filed Under: Features, Programs, Riding Shotgun, WPLN News

Simply put, the Music City Dope Pedalers are good vibes on two wheels

Khalil Ekulona

September 30, 2022

If you are driving around Germantown on a Friday evening, you’ll likely see the 20 cyclists who make up the Music City Dope Pedalers.

Filed Under: Features, Riding Shotgun Tagged With: bicycles, Community, Recreation, This Is Nashville

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