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Ryman Auditorium. Ryman Auditorium (originally Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed Grand Ole Opry House for a period) is a historic 2,362-seat live-performance venue and museum located at 116 Rep. John Lewis Way North, in the downtown core of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It is best known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to ...
With encouragement from Lowe, Wells spent the years 1964–73 in New York as a working guitarist. He moved to Nashville in 1974 and for seventeen years accompanied Tennessee Ernie Ford. He also worked with Brenda Lee and Porter Wagoner. For twenty-three years, he was music director of Opryland USA, where he wrote over five thousand arrangements.
Nashville is known for Southern confections, including Goo Goo Clusters, which have been made in Nashville since 1912. [174] In May 2018, AllianceBernstein pledged to build a private client office in the city by mid-2019 and to move its headquarters from New York City to Nashville by 2024. [175] [176]
Memphis blues is a regional style created by area musicians such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, and Memphis Jug Band [12] in the 1910s-1930s, with stylistic origins in Country blues and Delta blues. [13] Memphis was a center of blues music for much of the 20th century.
Adair was an adjunct professor of jazz studies at Vanderbilt University 's Blair School of Music. [6] She was a faculty and board member of the Nashville Jazz Workshop, where she often performed. [5][8] In 2002, Adair was named a Steinway Artist. [7][8] She was inducted into Western Kentucky University's Hall of Fame and Cave City's Hall of Fame.
The National Underground was a music venue in New York City, that was launched in December 2007. It was a roots rock Americana music bar founded in Manhattan 's Lower East Side, at 159 East Houston Street between Allen and Eldridge Streets. [1] In 2011, a further venue opened at 105 Broadway, Nashville, TN 37201, which remains open as of July ...
Mark Elliott is a songwriter, author and guitarist whose career started in Washington, D.C., and later took him to Nashville. As a songwriter Elliott has penned hits which reached the Billboard Top Forty charts, notably "Every Man for Himself" for Neal McCoy (US Country No. 37, 2000). [1] As an author, Mark is represented by Brandt & Hochman ...
CBS, Bethlehem, Victor, Black & Blue, Chiaroscuro. Website. www.milthinton.com. Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000) was an American double bassist and photographer. [1] Regarded as the Dean of American jazz bass players, [2] his nicknames included "Sporty" from his years in Chicago, "Fump" from his time on the road with Cab ...