Popular Culture
- Cormac McCarthy's 1979 novel Suttree concerns a man who forsakes his life of privilege to become a fisherman along the Tennessee River in Knoxville in the early 1950s.
- The song "Tennessee River" was recorded by the country music band Alabama in 1980.
- Darryl Worley's Tennessee River Run was written and recorded as a memoir to the memories he made over the course of his lifetime on the Tennessee River and at Pickwick Lake, just outside his hometown of Savannah, TN.
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