If there is one venue or music institution that has existed since I moved here in 1996 as fun as Starwood was in it’s heyday, it would be the Grand Ole Opry, hands down. I have been there 375 times now, and I have witnessed so many male and female artists and bands there that I cannot finish making a full list of them all. I used to go once a month but now there are so many other choices to go to that I love, that it is hard to support them all.
I mean holy hell we have THIS going tonight plus Lucero is playing at the Basement East and Shane Smith and the Saints are playing the Ryman Auditorium tonight. There is a long list of good Country Music shows going on all over town and the celebration that is about to transpire on the Opry is nothing short of amazing.
I mean how many of you remember the classic line “I am Little Jimmy Dickens or Willie Nelson after taxes”or the million other one liner jokes he used to come out and tell us every week. Nobody cared how corny they were…THAT WAS COMEDY.
