About this podcast
In 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few believed that. Thirty years later, the remaining women break their silence for the first time. Told through candid interviews, Higher Grounds is an intimate oral history of lifelong friendship, ambition, and impossible choices, tracing four women’s lives from girlhood to the explosive moment everything came undone.
Episodes
- I'm Coming Home | Episode 11 · 32 min · Episode 11After a devastating loss brings Charles home to Nashville, he’s faced with a major decision about his future. In Las Vegas, a brush with the past and a sudden turn of events…
- The Upward Way | Episode 10 · 35 min · Episode 10Elle’s Playboy cover sends shockwaves through the country, launching Wilder to unimaginable heights—but behind the scenes, the cost of that success begins to surface. As fame…
- Not Your Sweetheart | Episode 9 · 38 min · Episode 9Gentry joins the house band on The Monte & Elle Comedy Hour. As tensions between the show’s stars mount, Elle starts pushing back against the image that made her famous. Dive…
- Between Here and Chicago | Episode 8 · 30 min · Episode 8*This episode contains depictions of domestic violence and other forms of violence that may be disturbing to some listeners. In Las Vegas, Sylvia’s life with Carmine reaches a…
- The House Always Wins | Episode 7 · 41 min · Episode 7*This episode contains depictions of domestic violence and may be disturbing to some listeners. In Nashville, Joni begins to rediscover a sense of purpose amid the demands of…
- Luck Be A Lady | Episode 6 · 37 min · Episode 6In Las Vegas, Sylvia meets a young musician named Gentry Wilder, but her attention is quickly claimed by another man. After a violent encounter leaves her shaken, her life begins…
- You Can't Go Home Again | Episode 5 · 38 min · Episode 5In the aftermath of a devastating year, the girls begin finding their footing in lives that look nothing like the ones they once imagined. A wedding brings Roz and Elle back to…
- Nineteen Dollars and Eighty-Three Cents | Episode 4 · 41 min · Episode 4It’s 1970. The girls are scattered across the country, trying to hold onto each other through letters as their lives start to split at the seams. In Louisiana, Sylvia is pushed…
- The End of an Era | Episode 3 · 40 min · Episode 3It’s 1969. The Divine Darlings are riding high on their first studio recording when real life closes in. A humiliating scene in a school parking lot. The Vietnam War divides the…
- The Divine Darlings | Episode 2 · 35 min · Episode 2It’s 1967. Sylvia, Roz, Joni, and Elle form a singing group called The Divine Darlings. What starts on church stages quickly grows into something bigger. But as ambition begins…
- The Summer of '62 | Episode 1 · 37 min · Episode 1In the series premiere, journalist Kat Singleton arrives at Higher Grounds to speak with the women behind Nashville’s most infamous coffeehouse. Thirty years ago, the coffeehouse…
- Trailer · 1 minIn 1993, rock frontwoman Elle Harrison was found dead at Higher Grounds, the Nashville coffeehouse she owned with her three best friends. Authorities ruled it a suicide. Few…
