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First of all, 17 years doesn’t even make a single era, never mind plural eras but I can overlook that. Secondly, $13.50 to see the film certainly beats the ridiculous $1,350 cost of actual tickets for this tour, but wait that’s not the best tickets. On StubHub for tickets in row four, which came as pairs, it cost $92,000 and change EACH last May. This is way over the top, greed run riot, but in this case, this is not... Read more
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Country music is inconceivable without the guitar, and earlier this past summer on this blog, I chronicled the history of the guitar as displayed at the Frist Museum downtown in Nashville, and you can access that by typing Frist museum into the search engine for this blog. Here in this last post I want to show some of the guitars left to the Ryman as museum pieces. These include Gibsons, Gretches, Fenders, Martins, and so much more. Or artists wanted... Read more
We would be remiss, not to return to the fact that the Ryman, was and continues to be the real heart and cathedral of country music, so naturally country artists, including crossover artists leave their stuff, their guitars, and clothes and bling to the Ryman as a museum. And the Ryman erects statues to some of their heroes, like Charley Pride, a black man who helped break the color barrier in country music. Here’s Ricky Scaggs and Travis Tritt trying... Read more
The Ryman is in fact surrounded by honky tonk bars, and is near to the Country Music Hall of Fame as well (there is also a song writers hall of fame in Nashville). Maybe the most famous of these bars is Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, and you can probably figure out that Tootsie was a piece of work. Nevertheless, she gave all sorts of country musicians a break that they needed, because record company scouts would camp out there and then... Read more
When the mid 60s rolled around, what had previously been a trickle, became a steady stream of soul and rock artists began to play at the Ryman until it closed in 1974. But then after it reopened thanks to folks like Emmy Lou Harris, who campaigned to save the Ryman, suddenly a flood of rock acts wanted to play there. It reopened in 1994. Here are some of the posters from that whole phenomenon. There is even now a rock... Read more
What sort of venue was the Ryman? Well it was a 19th century church and its acoustics were about what you’d expect with a flat B board ceiling. Without a doubt, with a hot packed crowd soaking up the sound, electric guitars would need amplification which in turn meant microphones for the singer to be heard over the amps. For a while in the 40s and 50s country and bluegrass were almost the only acts playing here… until Elvis, and... Read more
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