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I'm visiting Nashville with my daughter in June. It's her birthda present and I'd like t show her where our kind of music came from (She sings Country too and plays the Guitar). Just tell me, friends - where are the places I have to go with her - I mean the smaller ones, not wild horse saloon or grand ole opry - that what we will visit anyway. I'm thankful for any hint.

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Big Jim Murphy has been playing at the Long Hollow Jamboree on Sat.nights from 7:30 to 11:00.The place is in Goodlettsville,Tn. about 25 miles north of Nashville.Its a dance hall and family resturant,no booze and a great place to bring your kids and the charge is $4.00 a head.The band plays for the door.I have been sitting in with these guys for a couple of months now having a great time.

http://www.nashvillesongwriters.com/tinpan6.htm

There's a list of seven clubs in Nashville that are part of Tin Pan South (a songwriter's convention in early April).

I believe this are all fairly small venues.

Another one would be the Broken Spoke.

I'm sure others from Nashville can fill you in on the details of these clubs, and many more.

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Although the "lower Broadway" area of Nashville tends to be a little seedy at times, you never know who you will run across picking in the small bars, such as Tootsie's.

Also the Station Inn. The Time Jumpers play every Monday, I think, and lay down some excellent western swing. Don't forget the new Country Music Hall of Fame should be open to the public by then. Be sure and at least walk through the Ryman, too.Visit Hatch Show Print while you're on Lower Broadway, too, and the original Ernest Tubb Record Shop.
We stayed in Nashville last summer and enjoyed eating at the Hermitage Cafe,Hog Heaven and the Loveless Cafe.Have a blast!

I was in Nashville last week and the Country Music Hall of Fame was temporarily closed. I would have liked to check that one out. You might want to check westernbeat.com from the Exit/In. You would probably find more country music in Texas.

Hey Jack...

Lower Broad ain't seedy no mo.....

Metro done run off all the "Goodtime Ladies" and bumms,Got rid of the porn flick houses,even made second ave a one way street,(at times,a pedestrain venue only).

Of course, now there ain't nothing much but Gaylord here,(and we all know what they have done for Country Music in the past few years) We still have "Tooties" and a few other bar places. But they don't pay the bands, a lot of em just use the singalong tapes and DJ's. The few places you do see a live band, you can bet they are playing for the door or a tip jar. This ain't to say there ain't any good stuff and/or players down here but the days of a 4-5 piece band ain't happining. If you want to hear and see a live band here now, you need to check out the whole "Nashville" scene includeing "Long Hollow Jamboree", Nashville Nite-Life","3rd Ave cafe" and a few other places not mentioned in the tour promo's.

Yea, we're still alive but it's a slow road back to the danceing to a live band and real country music instead of this "New Country Crap"

Bill, the last time I was there (November 99) the winos were still around, and that was during the day.

Check out the Don Kelley Band at Roberts on lower Broadway in the evenings. Johnny Hiland, the guitarist, sets the place on fire with his amazing virtuosity. Best, Boomer

Hey, seems that our trip's way too short. Thanks a lot.
Can't wait to see Jeff's and Bobbe's places.



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Mandy Barnett has been working 12th&Porter on weekends quite frequently.She uses Stu Basore on steel.Check it out.If you Email Stu,he may know if she'll be there when you're in town.
12th&Porter is the name of the club as well as the location.
WF

I've been hearing a buzz about a guitarist who sometimes works with the Don Kelly Band, I think he's legally blind and his name is Johnny Hyland.
I keep seeing this guy mentioned on other lists and I hear he is a killer guitarist, anyone know of him?

Jason,
You got that right. His hero is Jimmy Bryant,& I believe he can "cut" him. If he played any faster,only dogs could hear him.

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I'm not sure, but I think GABES is still in Hendersonville. I heard from my brother, Austin Preston, That he went there about 2 or 3 years ago, and Ricky Van Shelton's steel player was in there,& the same night, they ask him to sit in the next time he came into town, & the following weekend, he brought his Sho-Bud, D-12, and Teresa Franklin,(Paul's sister) walked up ,looked at my brothers' steel, and said,'I bet more than likely, I wound those pick-ups' on that steel. He didn't even know who she was, until she introduced herself to him. So, you NEVER know who you might run into in that area. Enjoy your trip there, & I hope you run into someone special while you are there.

Thanks Ron,
I'm abit embarrassed. Anyway, I have very fond memories of working at Sho-Bud.
I know alot are unhappy with the state of country music in Nashville. But, no matter where you visit, you should pick up a city paper to find out what's happening while visiting.
Have fun and enjoy.Nashville has so much to offer and I wouldn't live anywhere else! Theresa

Oh Theresa, I almost thought for a small moment that you were going to confess that you are also unhappy with the shape Nashvill pop rock music has gotten into?

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Hey everybody, Y'all remember me? I'm the forum member that works SEVEN nights a week at the Nashville Palace. I'd like to meet y'all too. Even if I'm not a big name. I know us old boys that make our living playing the clubs and doing our little demo sessions aren't considered professional but we have something to say with the steel guitar too. And btw Gabes is not nor has it ever been in Hendersonville. It is on Arctic Ave. off Brick Church pike at the Trinity Lane exit off I-65 north. In east Nashville. Yes I recomend anyone seeing Big Murph at Long Hollow and Dumplin at the Station Inn. No more steel at the Night Life anymore. And you'll see some steel players on Broadway but I don't know who and when because different bands come and go down there. I don't mean to sound petty but I try to support the forum I would just like to see some of y'all to. I know time is precious when you are on vacation so if you don't make it down to the Palace thats ok. I just wish I wasn't left out like the red-headed stepchild. J.M. Sweeney

Mike,

Take it easy on yourself.... I have seen you play every time I have been to NV. We have spoke a few times....I think it was before you were active on the forum though. Last time I saw you, you had Donna Hammitt sit in and play.

You have a GREAT show there and those who "leave you out...are MISSING OUT!"

My $.02

See u next time....

Tim Harr

PS: the food ain't bad there either !

I didn't realize that was still going. The last time I was there it seemed like the area around the Opry was drying up, since Opryland closed.

Has the new "shopryland" helped business?

No. Best, Boomer

Is there any "tourist" areas left in Nashville for the fans??? When I was there Printers Alley was the "in" place, but a lot of the patrons were locals. Later, they set up a tourist area near music row on Demonbreun, then it was music valley area when Opryland really got going. There used to be a couple of places around Twittyland but I understand all of them are gone.

The weekend traffic on lower Broadway was usually pretty good, with the Opry still at the Ryman. We did a lot of tourist business at Little Roy's music store on the weekends.

But, "from a distance" there doesn't seem like any incentive for the tourists to flock to Nashvul anymore. Obviously there are still places to go and see, but not like it was when "country was country".

I'd hate to be a musician trying to survive there today. It always was tough but it has to really be painful today.

Mike,

i'll sure meet you there at the Palace, just give me the adress. That's the places I am looking for. I always prefer the 'small stars' you can talk to against the 'big stars', where the front row of the audience is sooo far away from the stage, even if its only a few feet.

Thanks for all the replies - i think this week will be much too short.

mike, smiley, bruce - i'll sure callya whe i'm in town

Roland

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