Tag: Country Music Hall of Fame

Bill Anderson Exhibit Will Open At HOF On Dec. 3

Bill Anderson

In 1957, a nineteen-year-old college student, Bill Anderson, sat atop a three-story hotel overlooking a few stoplights in the small town of Commerce, Georgia, and wrote “City Lights” on his guitar — singing to the starry night and envisioning a bustling metropolis: “A bright array of city lights as far …

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Prine Family Announces “You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine”

Third Annual “You Got Gold: Celebrating the Songs of John Prine” Set

UPDATE: These 2021 events have been rescheduled to October 2022. Tickets on sale. The Prine Family has announced “You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine” with a series of special concerts and events held across various venues in Nashville October 8-12, 2022. The weeklong celebration will …

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HOF To Open Special Exhibition Honoring Bill Anderson

Bill Anderson

Country Music Hall of Famer, Grand Ole Opry member and songwriting legend, Bill Anderson, will be celebrated in a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in 2020, aimed at entertaining and enlightening country music audiences and interpreting the ever-evolving story of the music and the …

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J.D. Wilkes To Celebrate New Album With HOF Performance

Before signing his band, Legendary Shack Shakers, again with punk label Alternative Tentacles, J.D.Wilkes is revisiting his rural Kentucky roots with a banjo-and-harmonica-heavy solo record, Will I See You One Day in God’s Glory Land?. The sparsely-adorned old-time album was recorded both at the famous NuttHouse Studio in Muscle Shoals, …

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