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Despite being a country music town, Nashville still has a rich history of dance. Who among us can forget Denim & Diamonds? Or Music City Mix Factory? Contemporary Nashvillians have surely stepped foot into a QDP party? Or any night of the week at Play? But they all must pay homage to Johny Jackson’s Soul Satisfaction; one of Nashville’s most memorable and enduring dance parties.
Started in 1994, the dance party moved around town from Exit/In to Springwater before finding a long term home at 328 Performance Hall in 1995. Party goers would enter through the back door into a “funky” side room sure to be packed with sweaty bodies late into the night, grooving to obscure 1970s disco and funk hits put on by Jackson himself (anecdotally, some of those records were borrowed from Mike Grimes!)
Jackson was a New Yorker with an art school background and a musical history that included playing bass with Will Sexton and forming his own power pop band The Holidays. Soul Satisfaction was a DIY party inspired by New York night life at Tunnel and The Palladium. It ran weekly for eleven years. That’s roughly 572 dance parties.
On New Year’s Eve 2005, Jackson threw the final Soul Satisfaction party at The Barcar at Cummins Station; their home since 328’s demolition. While bittersweet for Nashville, it’s fantastic to say that such a massive dance party existed for so long. Jackson is a fine artist now, making paintings and showing at galleries. I have to assume those show openings are a helluva good time.
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