Tag: nashville
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When you go back thirty seven years, the stories may suffer from memory distortion. You wonder, did that really happen? I reminded Terri, when we had played in Chillicothe, Ohio, how she asked me if I would accompany her on an elephant ride that the fair offered.
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Just before 11, we get a text from David. “Where would you like to meet? Maybe we can go to Waffle House near The Opry and break bread, have a hang and chat a bit.” This sounded perfect because it was on our way home, and we hadn’t been to the Opry Waffle House. Would…
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Happy Holidays from Billy, Sue, Mavis & Minnie…
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I played the guitar for what seemed like an hour and gave it a good test run. This Tele was doing the talking, and I was listening. When we emerged from the iso room, I knew I had found a guitar that I wanted. But this was not a Fender Telecaster, it was called an…
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Greetings from Liberty. Live music is returning to public places. It certainly never left here at our home. The guitars and banjos have been picked, plucked and strummed on most days since the middle of March last year. They have helped deliver new songs, tunes and twangs. But much of the homebound music making is…
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In the spring of 1986, I got a call from Ansley. He was Jeanne’s bandleader, and he asked me if I would be interested in playing rhythm guitar and back-up singing with her band. It had been a dream of mine to play the Opry since 1975 when I first listened to it in my…
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Back in February I had the one of the world’s greatest harmonica players over to my studio, Artland, here in Nashville to do some recording. Mickey Raphael, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, has been performing and recording with Willie Nelson for over four decades.
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The year was nineteen seventy-one. A former mailman from Illinois released an album on Atlantic records, self-titled, John Prine. The songs were narrative — filled with empathy for his characters. Sam Stone, the drug addicted veteran; Hello In There, a song about aging; and Paradise, the town that was taken away by the coal company.…
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Last week brought the Americana Music Festival and Conference to Nashville and Jeni and I got to go to a couple of spectacular events at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum. On Thursday in the Ford Theater, Robert Gordon interviewed the legendary Booker T Jones – musician, composer, producer from Memphis, Tennessee. Mr.…
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Harold Bradley, who played guitar and/or tick-tack bass on all but four of Patsy’s recordings, spoke about Patsy’s intensity every time she stepped up to the microphone. He also said that two of the things he’d learned from being a session musician was that 1. the singer is always right and 2. the singer is…
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