Nashvillains

4: Justin Parks Wants To Be A Star

Jerry Broadway — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:47:15 +0000

Dreamers come to Nashville every day chasing that country music dream. A tiny percentage actually make it. The rest find their own way—some playing for smaller crowds because it's more about the music than fame, some becoming songwriters, some heading back home knowing they gave it everything.

And then there's Paul Dennis Reid. He chose a completely different path—one that started with reinventing himself from the ground up.

Paul didn't come to Nashville with dreams. He came with certainty. He knew he was going to be the next Garth Brooks. No doubt in his mind. But when reality slammed into his glaring lack of talent, something inside him broke. And instead of working harder to develop his craft, or taking the L and heading back to Texas, Paul made a choice.

He got angry.

He decided Nashville owed him. And he intended to collect—no matter who had to die in the process.

3: The Last Honky Tonk

Jerry Broadway — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:00:04 +0000

In November 2013, Nashville gathered to give George Jones the send-off of a lifetime — and when the arena emptied, the after-party rolled down to Second Avenue, to a bar called the Pit and Barrel, freshly made over for a reality show set to air the very next day. Among the last men standing were outlaw singer Wayne Mills — an Alabama football player who'd walked away from the game to chase his musical dreams down the highway — and his friend, the bar's owner, Chris Ferrell. The next morning, one of them would be hours away from death. The how, when and where of the case were obvious. It was the "why" that absolutely stunned the investigators.

Nashvillains uncovers the darkest true crimes in Music City's history — Real crimes. Real villains. One unforgettable city.

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Credits
A Hey Dad Productions presentation. Written and produced by Jerry Broadway. Some voices generated with Fish Audio AI. Musical Score created using Suno. . © 2026 Hey Dad Productions

2: Murder On Music Row

Jerry Broadway — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:00:04 +0000

Kevin Hughes came to Nashville to count the hits — a small-town numbers man who rose to run the charts at Cash Box magazine, right in the heart of Music Row. But the charts were rigged, the payola ran deep, and Kevin had started asking the wrong questions. On the night of March 9, 1989, a masked man with a strange, stiff run stepped out of the dark on 16th Avenue and shot him dead in the street, wounding the young singer walking beside him. Then the trail went cold — for fourteen years. And when the answer finally came, it didn't come from Music Row at all. It came from a wiretap, a drug dealer down in Georgia, and thirteen spent bullets buried in a backyard.

Nashvillains uncovers the darkest true crimes in Music City's history — Real crimes. Real villains. One unforgettable city.

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Credits
A Hey Dad Productions presentation. Written and produced by Jerry Broadway. Some voices generated with Fish Audio AI. Musical Score created using Suno. . © 2026 Hey Dad Productions

This episode includes AI-generated content.

1: The Cabin On Baker Road

Jerry Broadway — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:55:37 +0000

David "Stringbean" Akeman was a Grand Ole Opry legend and an original Hee Haw star — a banjo man who came up through the Great Depression and never trusted a bank again, keeping his money close and hidden inside his little cabin north of Nashville. Everyone in those hills had heard the rumors of what he kept there. On the night of November 10, 1973, two young men were waiting in the dark when Stringbean and his wife, Estelle, drove home from a performance at The Grand Ole Opry. What happened next shattered Music City's sense of safety and made a whole town start locking its doors. But the cruelest twist of all wouldn't surface for another twenty-three years.

Nashvillains uncovers the darkest true crimes in Music City's history — Real crimes. Real villains. One unforgettable city.

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Credits
A Hey Dad Productions presentation. Written and produced by Jerry Broadway. Some voices generated with Fish Audio AI. Musical Score created using Suno. . © 2026 Hey Dad Productions

This episode includes AI-generated content.