Nashville native Jackie Shane was a pioneering transgender artist who worked in the city’s R&B nightclubs and recording studios. This conversation about Shane’s life and career, and about the documentary “Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story,” features filmmakers Michael Mabbott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee, Shane’s nieces Andrenee Majors-Douglas and Vonnie Moore, and musician Jimmy Church. The program, hosted by the Museum’s Michael Gray, was recorded on September 21, 2025; offered in support of the Museum’s exhibition “Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited”; and presented in partnership with the Americana Music Association, the Nashville Film Festival, and the National Museum of African American Music.

During this program, which followed a screening of “Any Other Way,” Majors-Douglas and Moore discuss what it was like learning they have an aunt who was a known soul and R&B singer in Canada after Shane’s death. Additionally, Church shares stories of his time working with Shane, and Mabbot and Rosenberg-Lee explain what inspired them to create their documentary and share Shane’s story with the world.

In 1960, Shane relocated to Canada, where her song “Any Other Way” became a hit in 1963 and she gained a rabid following. In 1965, Shane returned to Nashville to perform on the TV show “Night Train,” Footage of that performance became the only video of Shane known to exist. Despite her prominence in the Toronto music scene, Shane disappeared from public life in the early 1970s. In 2017, Numero Group released “Any Other Way,” a compilation album of her music, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Historical Album. The documentary “Any Other Way,” primarily based on phone interviews conducted prior to Shane’s death in 2019, shines a light on Shane’s life and too-brief career as a performer.

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