• Rocky Top comes to Rocky Top, TN

    Many readers will remember a story last summer about a successful proposition to change to name of Lake City, a small town in east Tennessee, to Rocky Top, TN. There was a degree of opposition in Lake City, and the

  • Good ole Rocky Top

    Since 1967, bluegrass fans have longed to visit Rocky Top, TN. And now they can. On June 26, the town of Lake City in East Tennessee officially changed their name to Rocky Top. They celebrated their first July 4 with the new

  • Don’t mess with Rocky Top

    Bluegrass bands that perform in clubs or at private outdoor events know about the wrath of the Rocky Top fan. Attempts to gracefully decline a request to perform the song can be met with anything from forcefulness to aggressive persuasion.