Ernest Tubb Record Shop is no more

Damir Besic · Post by **Damir Besic** » 11 Mar 2022 10:58 am

https://musicrow.com/2022/03/ernest-tub ... -to-close/

I’m glad I got here in time to enjoy real Nashville , and real country music while it was still around …

Doug Taylor · Post by **Doug Taylor** » 11 Mar 2022 12:24 pm

That is sad news! I don’t think I have ever made a trip to Nashville without stopping in.

Clyde Mattocks · Post by **Clyde Mattocks** » 11 Mar 2022 12:43 pm

Sad, but I have to thank them for a job well done for so long. Thomas Hardy and I played there in '54, a couple of raw teenagers. Ernest and the band treated us so well.

Post by **Brad Bechtel** » 11 Mar 2022 5:53 pm

That's a shame, but not too surprising. It's gotta be pretty expensive having that property in the middle of downtown Nashville. I can't imagine record sales being too profitable today.

Jim Fogle · Post by **Jim Fogle** » 12 Mar 2022 7:44 am

The shop sold a lot more items than records. I spent a few hours there every time I visited Nashville and always left with my hands full.

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 12 Mar 2022 8:12 am

Always a must see for me every time too. This place is a shrine to the history of country music too. Too bad.

How about the theatre out in Music Valley? I'm assuming that's going out too? That was also a fun visit.

Ken Pippus · Post by **Ken Pippus** » 12 Mar 2022 11:42 am

Loved that place. Another sad milestone.

Tom Sosbe · Post by **Tom Sosbe** » 12 Mar 2022 11:43 am

one more reason not to go to Nashville

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 13 Mar 2022 3:31 pm

I remember being in there on one of my trips to Nashville. Wasn't there a D10 pedal steel on display in there at one time, maybe one of Pete Drake's guitars?

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 13 Mar 2022 5:49 pm

Yes, I think it was a The Professional model :

Larry Jamieson · Post by **Larry Jamieson** » 14 Mar 2022 7:28 am

Sure enough, that is what I remembered. An Icon from the days when country music featured fiddles and pedal steel guitars. Thanks for the picture, Jerry.

Samuel Phillippe · Post by **Samuel Phillippe** » 14 Mar 2022 2:05 pm

One of my favorite stops in Naashville although it was dead the last time there, no one playing at all.
Sad to see historic places like this disappear.

Sam

Karl Paulsen · Post by **Karl Paulsen** » 14 Mar 2022 3:29 pm

Interesting article here that explores the matter in a bit more depth.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/we-n ... cord-shop/

Looks like the place has been sold several times but that the sale in 2020 might have been a bridge too far.

Hoping against all indications that the new owners have a heart for it.

Daniel Dickie · Post by **Daniel Dickie** » 17 Mar 2022 8:35 pm

Sad to see that it is closing down.
If they did international shipping I would buy something from them.
Tony Davis gave me an old catalogue from there that he got 20 years ago.. I will hang onto it as a souvenir of better days in country music.
I hope when I someday get to Nashville there is still something there....

Chris Templeton · Post by **Chris Templeton** » 22 Mar 2022 5:44 am

Sad. Another tradition gone the way of the next best thing.

Tom Keller · Post by **Tom Keller** » 22 Mar 2022 9:40 am

Will the radio show continue on WSM at midnight or is that gone?

Jim Fogle · Post by **Jim Fogle** » 22 Mar 2022 12:16 pm

Tom Keller wrote:Will the radio show continue on WSM at midnight or is that gone?

Tom, I believe the Saturday Night Midnight Jamboree radio show closed down a few years ago. The show was moved from the downtown location to an auxiliary Record Shop location located in a mall in the suburbs. I believe the Jamboree radio show stopped when the auxiliary location closed.

Here is a listing of the current WSM radio shows: https://wsmradio.com/shows/

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 28 Mar 2022 1:42 pm

Here is an in depth article about what went down.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/how- ... -in-peril/

George Redmon · Post by **George Redmon** » 4 Apr 2022 6:01 pm

I recall Marty Robbins would always go over time on the opry, when i wanted to hear Buddy play. But Robbins was great to hear as well.

Jon Zimmerman · Post by **Jon Zimmerman** » 4 Apr 2022 8:15 pm

After looking at the ‘in depth articles’ and hearing pugnacious protagonists’ postulations fly freely, I can only laugh out loud at that characters name: Joe Buck Yourself. The rest is just as sad as a rainy-day funeral.

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 11 Apr 2022 3:40 am

Sad as hell, but also a sign of the times. Nobody really cares about things like this anymore, there is NO Connection. The younger generations have turned the corner to " nobody gives a crap about anything anymore" All they care about is which IPhone do they have.

I'm actually surprised it lasted as long as it did. I've been there many times and I'm glad for that.

Think about this....Mannys Music on 48th Street NYC, which was the premier Music Store in NYC , hang out on a Saturday and any BIG TIME Artist or player who was in NYC would come into the store . Well now its parking lot or maybe even an empty lot.

Our generational culture has changed 180 degrees and it didn't even take that long.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 11 May 2022 3:14 am

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/sour ... -reopen/[b][/b]

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