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 …
Read More »Prine Family Announces “You Got Gold: Celebrating the Life & Songs of John Prine”
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 …
Read More »HOF To Open Special Exhibition Honoring 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 …
Read More »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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