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Episode 11: Bobby Mackey’s Music World: The Slaughterhouse Honky-Tonk
Just across the Ohio River in Wilder, Kentucky sits a stretch of muddy embankment with a reputation darker than the deep water beside it. Before the neon lights flickered on, before country legends picked guitar strings on stage, and long before the mechanical bull drew crowds of thrill-seekers, this riverfront site was drenched in more than a century of blood, bootlegging, and brutality.
Tonight, we step inside Bobby Mackey’s Music World—a notorious roadside roadhouse built over an industrial slaughterhouse runoff well, fortified by mob syndicates during Prohibition, and cursed by violent…
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