4-Story Bar & Venue Coming to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop Location
The Ernest Tubb Record Shop on Lower Broadway in Nashville is a national landmark and was a living piece of country music history. In 2022 after being shuttered amid an ownership battle and uncertainty for the future of the business, a set of investors stepped up to buy the property and business. At the time, the hope was that the Ernest Tubb Record Shop would be saved.
The building at 417 Broadway will be preserved indefinitely thanks to historic covenants protecting the structure itself. But both the current ownership group of the building, and the company the owners have partnered with to lease and manage the property, are not currently committing to saving the record shop business itself. Instead the current plan is to build a multi-level honky tonk bar and music venue at the property, with perhaps a tip of the hat to the location’s Ernest Tubb legacy.
In a recent report in The Nashville Post, it was reported that the new owners of 417 Broadway are leasing the building to Tusk Brothers Entertainment. The principals of Tusk Brothers are Jamie and Bryan Kenney, who also operate the Reunion Bar and Hotel in East Nashville, as well as the bar Never Never in Nashville’s Wedgewood neighborhood.
On March 14th, the Nashville Metro Planning Commission will hear a request from Tusk Brothers for a final site plan of the property that proposes a 4-story bar and live music venue. The current building is three stories, with a proposed rooftop bar constituting the 4th story. Jamie Kenney told The Nashville Post, “Our hope is to have a honky-tonk that will pay tribute to the legacy of Ernest Tubb and the record shop. We love who Ernest Tubb was and what he meant to Nashville’s music history.”
However, paying tribute to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and re-opening the Ernest Tubb Record Shop are two separate things. This has caused some fans of the Record Shop and preservationists of the shop’s legacy to worry the location might become just another multi-level Lower Broadway honky tonk catering to tourists in the region without a record shop aspect at all.
The building’s new owners and the Tusk Brothers lessees have yet to even finalize the name of the new business, or decide if the iconic sign on the front of the building will remain. They have also given no timeline on when the establishment may open again.
The new ownership group for the Ernest Tubb Record Shop location paid $18.3 million for the building and the 0.08-acre parcel it sits on. The group includes Nashville-based real estate investor, developer, and former NFL player Brad Bars, Russian-born renown Nashville studio musician Ilya Toshinskiy, and Ernest Dale Tubb III, who is a businessman located in the Nashville area and Ernest Tubb’s grandson.
Saving Country Music reached out to Brad Bars of the new ownership group to ask if there was any intention to open an actual record shop at the property in the future, or if the new business would have any significant retail aspect. “We are leasing it to Tusk so I would ask them,” Bars responded. “I encouraged them to keep the sign and keep some aspects of the record shop.”
Saving Country Music then reached out to Jamie Kenney of Tusk Brothers and asked the same question. Kenney responded, “We are super early in the planning phases so don’t have any details to comment on at this point, but will be excited to share those with you down the road as they develop. Thank you and appreciate the interest.”
Though plans for the location still seem preliminary, what seems certain is the location will expand to include a bar and live music venue. Whether the Tusk Brothers also choose to move forward with reconstituting the actual Ernest Tubb Record Shop on one of the four floors of the building is still up in the air.
Lower Broadway is quickly becoming saturated with multi-level bars. Just in February, Morgan Wallen announced his intention to open the six-story “This Bar” in downtown Nashville by the summer of 2024, and John Bon Jovi announced his intent to open a 37,000 sq. ft. bar as well.
The Ernest Tubb Record Shop building is right next door to the new Garth Brooks Friends in Low Place bar that is set to have its grand opening on March 7th. The two buildings used to be separated by a narrow alley, but Garth partnered with the city of Nashville to incorporate the alleyway into the new location, with the Metro Nashville Police operating a substation out of the building’s expansion.
Meanwhile, vinyl record sales are surging, increasing to 49.61 million in 2023, up 14.2% from 43.46 million in 2022. In was also the 18th year in a row that vinyl sales have increased.
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The Ernest Tubb Record Shop became embroiled in a legal dispute in 2020 between the previous owner David McCormick, and the new owners JesseLee Jones and Emily Ann Cousins, who also own the honky tonk Robert’s Western World on Lower Broadway. Jones and Cousins purchased the property from David McCormick in what first appeared to be the perfect deal to preserve the property and business. But an estate dispute resulted in the respective parties announcing the Ernest Tubb Record Shop would be closing and put up for sale.
First opened in 1947 on Commerce St. as a retail enterprise for country legend Ernest Tubb, the Ernest Tubb Record Shop moved to its more iconic location on Broadway in 1951. Frustrated at the lack of country records stocked at many retail establishments across the country, Ernest Tubb decided to open up the store right around the corner from the Ryman Auditorium where the Grand Ole Opry was held.
The location also became the venue for the Midnite Jamboree—the official/unofficial afterparty of the Opry every Saturday night. Along with the record shop becoming a landmark, the Midnite Jamboree also became a cultural staple. This is where Loretta Lynn got her big break, and dedicated a song to Patsy Cline as she laid in a hospital bed after a tragic auto accident—just one of many legendary moments in country history facilitated by the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and the Midnite Jamboree.
Soon both the Ernest Tubb Record Shops, and the Midnite Jamboree became national institutions. Multiple Ernest Tubb Record Shop locations opened across the country, including in Pigeon Forge, TN and Fort Worth, TX. The Midnite Jamboree was broadcast on WSM in Nashville, and simulcast in scores of markets.
February 29, 2024 @ 1:13 pm
This makes me pretty sad. Living in another state, I never got a chance to visit this shop but it was high on my list. I’ll always regret not prioritizing that one.
February 29, 2024 @ 1:46 pm
I was honestly surprised and underwhelmed of the actual vinyl/cds the shop actually carried a few years back. I felt with its rich history it seemed totally disconnected with the surge in vinyl sales of the past decade that you speak of Trigger. The younger generation are now buying more cds and even cassette tapes. I was hoping if it reopened it would expand both the historical artifacts and vinyl collection and become the go to spot for country music memorabilia and not just another spot for bachelorette parties. This is sad news all around .
March 1, 2024 @ 10:10 am
The Ernest Tubb Record Shop was completely mismanaged for years heading into the sale that preceded where we are today. Yes, during the ’00s and early 2010’s, physical sales and vinyl too a nose dive. But they did react to the resurgence, and basically there was little or no reason to go in there except nostalgia.
If you had a full stocked record store on the 1st floor, held in-store appearances and album signings, pop-up events, etc., that place would be hopping.
February 29, 2024 @ 2:12 pm
Hopefully not another stupid venue hopefully like Roberts
February 29, 2024 @ 2:32 pm
That sign is probably going to end up in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
February 29, 2024 @ 2:42 pm
Super sad! The last thing we need is another 4 story honky tonk. With all these new sterile multi story honkytonks Broadway will lose all of it’s character and charm.
Why buy a building for $18,000,000 and almost 2 years not have even a name or plan. Maybe they have a plan but don’t want to say anything until after the planning commission.
What a weird response from the guy that owns the building and business.
“We are leasing it to Tusk so I would ask them,” Bars responded.
February 29, 2024 @ 3:55 pm
One of my biggest questions is why all of this is taking so long. I understand there is a lot to do. But these Lower Broadway properties are so hot and lucrative, they’re changing hands and three to six months later the entire concept is open and making money. It’s been almost two years that could have been moving towards positive cash flow. Even if they were just doing pop up openings for album releases or around the holidays, or putting on shows as the space gets remodeled, it seems like a significant loss of revenue to have a property on Lower Broadway just sit there. Who knows when an actual opening will happen.
When I was last by there in late September, it appears everything had been moved out and all decor had been taken back to the bare walls. So they have been doing something in the space. But it just feels like there’s been no real plan, and even now according to them, everything is still “preliminary.”
February 29, 2024 @ 3:39 pm
Sounds like a great idea what they’re doing.
Keep the “iconic” sign and build a business inspired by the ET Record Shop. Heck, if L.A. can have a fine, high-end restaurant called the French Laundry, then Nashville can have a bar’eatery-music venue called the Ernest Tubb Record Shop
March 1, 2024 @ 11:21 am
What idea is a great idea? I wouldn’t call opening the 40th honky-tonk on Broadway a ‘great idea’
No real plans have been shared. Also, I missed the news that the French Laundry moved 400 miles from Napa Valley to LA. That’s big news.
February 29, 2024 @ 3:45 pm
How many more bars does Lower Broadway need? It’s embarrassing how big of a shit show that whole area has become over the years. At the rate it’s going we’re just around 20 years out before the Ryman becomes another “bar that respects it’s historical past”
February 29, 2024 @ 4:56 pm
Oh yeah. Last thing needed on Lower Broadway is another bar. It’s horrendous on Friday and Saturday nights. The crowds are beyond sanity and 70% is Bachelorette parties and teens. It’s so thick with humans you can’t go in any of them and sit. Heck you can’t even approach the bar to get a beer. Usually you are 19 deep, shoulder to shoulder, everyone screaming to talk to each other. So I quit going on weekends a long time ago. Got suckered into it last visit by a couple with us who were first timers. I warned em, they insisted it couldn’t be that bad…it was…literally nowhere to go. And now the developers just keep adding more bars. I get it. It makes $$$$$. But man if you ain’t a twenty- something looking to party and scream talk all night, it’s a wretched experience. ( afternoons on the other hand are far more rewarding)
So sad, Ernest Tubbs grandson is all aboard the sellout. All about that $$$$. This blows completely.
March 1, 2024 @ 12:40 am
Brings to mind the old Yogi Berra line: “Nobody goes there, anymore. It’s too crowded.”
March 1, 2024 @ 11:43 am
Yogi didn’t say half the things he said. 🙂
February 29, 2024 @ 4:42 pm
What I think would be cool is if they did a real or faux record shop that looks original when you walk in but then you can walk through an opening into the overall larger bar/music venue. I’m thinking just like chef Roy Choi did in Vegas with his Best Friend Restaurant at the MGM. That place looks just like a convenience store/bodega but you walk though into a restaurant. https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g45963-d15622298-Reviews-Best_Friend_by_Roy_Choi-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html
February 29, 2024 @ 11:09 pm
That building is only 20 feet wide. They will need every inch of space to sell enough beer for this to make financial sense.
March 1, 2024 @ 10:15 am
I don’t think we need a faux anything. Make the 1st floor a record shop with a stage in the back for the Midnite Jamboree and in-store appearances like they’ve always had, and make the next three floors your bar/restaurant/venue space. This should have been done two decades ago. I’d argue the property NEEDS the record shop to distinguish itself from every single other bar on Lower Broadway. Do you think you’re going to coax the masses away from other properties with the promise of “honoring the legacy of Ernest Tubb”? Other properties down on Lower Broadway have a strong retail component too. Why wouldn’t Lower Broadway have a record store where folks can stop in and get signed copies of LPs they can’t get anywhere else?
March 1, 2024 @ 11:18 am
I do agree with ya. I guess what I mean is I would rather see a faux record store with homage to the original than for all of the homage to go away altogether with nothing at all left that resembles or respects the traditions of it. Yes no one wants another tourist trap bar slinging overpriced drinks or live music of only the regurgitated top 40 songs played either. I realize Carl says the size is small but it’s going to be 4 floors now counting the rooftop. So there is plenty of space for a bar and live music venue. Keep the 1st floor a vinyl record store if their is a real market for it and it would work if you make it something original like getting signed copies or an LP release event. Sadly people who only want to make money wouldn’t view it that way and my suggestion would at least save something.
March 1, 2024 @ 4:52 pm
I have to agree with the comments saying at best it would be a faux record shop.
1# Who is going to want to carry around records all day thru mutiple bars why drinking only to risk spilling something on them?
2# You can get records at Walmart now – They have a vinyl section.
3# It’s in the worst location ever for people to go specifically for records – Unless you can score parking at the Library parking lot you are paying $30+ just to freakin’ park.
March 1, 2024 @ 5:48 pm
#1 When fully stocked and properly managed, the Ernest Tubb Record Shop did brisk business, including shipping records all around the country and world through a substantial phone order business. People from around the country would purchase from the Record Shop specifically no matter where they were located in the country to support it, and because it employed knowledgeable people who could make recommendations and knew certain customers by name. Also, people would regularly come in, purchase a handful of vinyl records, and have the Record Shop ship it to their home. When I was doing my reporting on the Record Shop when the ownership situation was under dispute, former employees told me how well everything worked, and how much money they made when they had stock.
#2 – Walmart is not going to hold in-store performances, record signing events, is not going to stock signed copies, carry rare and limited number releases for Record Store Day and Black Friday, or carry used inventory. That is what makes record stores unique.
#3 The reason the building housing the Ernest Tubb Record Shop was sold for $18 million is because the location sees more foot traffic by tourists with money to burn than any other place in the United States of America side from perhaps Times Square. Location location location. Sure, locals will not frequent it. But they’re not about to go to a 4-story bar to watch a cover band either.
March 2, 2024 @ 2:30 am
You purposefully skimmed over my point about having to pay to park downtown. Gone are the days of easily scoring free parking within walking distance. People would have to pay $30+ just to park and get a record there.
I play in bands that play Ernest Tubb music, but I’m also being a realist here.
March 2, 2024 @ 8:18 am
Parking in downtown Nashville absolutely sucks, and I experience this first hand each year when I attend AmericanaFest. About the only place that is worse is New York City, because just like New York City, downtown Nashville has throngs upon throngs of affluent tourists teeming in the downtown region spending money, many of whom stay in hotels in the region and walk there, or uber downtown and don’t even think about parking. I agree parking is an issue, but it clearly is not an issue when it comes to people making their way downtown.
March 2, 2024 @ 2:35 am
Other stores around town have better user inventory (Great Escape or Discogs ) It’s regrettable to see old landmarks fadeaway, but at some point you have to realize that some businesses will unavoidably end because of better competition. They sparsely play real country downtown. It’s mostly 80’s rock and Tyler Childers. You can by Zach Bryan’s and Bon Jovi Vinyl in Walmart. And also dude wipes for the men who menstruate – which are the ones who emotionally connect with ZB’s music.
March 2, 2024 @ 8:22 am
“Other stores around town have better user inventory (Great Escape or Discogs )”
Not even sure what this means. How can you judge the inventory of a business that hasn’t been open for two years, and was mismanaged for the dozen years before that? You open up the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and you stock it with whatever inventory necessary to make it a viable retail business. You put a bar/restaurant/venue in the top three floors of the business to also draw in tourists. Perhaps you also have a small performance space in the back on the first floor as well, like the Ernest Tubb Record Shop has always had. Maybe add a small bar there too.
If you want to read up on the mismanagement of the Ernest Tubb Record Shop and how we got here, there are some deep dives here:
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/how-the-ernest-tubb-record-shops-future-was-put-in-peril/
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/the-man-who-rescued-the-ernest-tubb-record-shop-the-1st-time/
March 2, 2024 @ 2:39 am
The property owners will not ultimately go with the option that keeps that establishment the least packed. It’ll certainly end up a trendy bar for tourists like the rest.
If I could mentally masturbate myself back to the 80’s I’d get us both some Costco winter sized cocoa butter gallon jugs of lotion but that’s not how reality pans out.
March 2, 2024 @ 9:12 am
I truly don’t understand ‘Straights’ logic and remarks regarding parking and Walmart selling music. It’s like they don’t realize downtown has 10,000 hotel rooms and many of them are there coley because they enjoy country music so parking is not really an issue for a destination like that. Why is parking not an issue for records and not a bar?
As for Walmart selling vinyl, yes they sell vinyl but only new albums. Ernest Tubb sold used vintage hard to get albums.
I think everyone’s issue is the grandson sat down on TV and said he was going to save the record shop. Then does a 180 and leases to a group that has zero intention of saving the record shop at all. It appears he invested in the deal only to attempt to give them a silver bullet to fully close and remove the record shop to lessen the backlash. I get it’s hard to save hard to save a business but either plans really changed in the 18 months since they bought it or this was the plan from the outset and lied initially to avoid public backlash that will be coming.
February 29, 2024 @ 9:32 pm
This is a great example of what has happened to Country music as a whole. Money and business vs. Art and tradition.
It is also a story of a city being gentrified. I remember Lower Broadway having peep shows and strip clubs.
February 29, 2024 @ 11:04 pm
Bars responded. “I encouraged them to keep the sign and keep some aspects of the record shop.” Hmmm he’s the landlord and owner of the building maybe he could have put it the lease?
It looks like money trumps history. The saddest part is 95% of the drunk tourists will have no idea who Ernest Tubbs is when this place opens in 2025.
March 1, 2024 @ 12:51 am
Yeah, it’s sad that time moves inexorably forward. It’s sad that those drunk tourists will have no idea who Ozymandias was, either.
March 1, 2024 @ 3:44 am
“The saddest part is 95% of the drunk tourists will have no idea who Ernest Tubbs is”
We’re already misspelling his name by adding an s to it, so probably so. But the Bud Light and Ultra will be cold, and the FL/GA Line tunes will be loud and hot!
March 2, 2024 @ 9:14 am
Proofreeder must be an insider he’s already seen the drink menu and playlist!
March 1, 2024 @ 7:31 am
While I think another Disneyfied Honky Tonk is the last thing needed in this space, I also know it is unreasonable to believe they should just sit on prime real estate running a business that is definitely underutilizing the space. They should try to find an interested party that would be willing to purchase the Naming Rights and Inventory, who would be willing to re-open up in a more reasonable store front. The people who want to visit the record seem like they would be willing to take a small drive or walk. Unlike the Bachelorette Parties who just want Downtown Disney, but in Nashville.
March 1, 2024 @ 10:19 am
Under-utilizing the space is having it sit empty for two years as you decide what you want to do with it. Now you REALLY have to make money because you’re two years behind. Meanwhile, you had a business sitting in the first floor you could have re-opened as you remodeled the top three floors and put in your bar/restaurant.
March 5, 2024 @ 7:33 am
I’m definitely arguing on behalf of the developers and their lacking of planning and execution. I was speaking on the long-term feasibility of the record store.
March 1, 2024 @ 10:34 am
Whoever used to run the record shop couldn’t run a lemonade stand. I avoid Broadway like the plague but when I was in there in 2018 or 2019, they maybe had twenty feet of shelf space dedicated for vinyl and everything else was CDs. When vinyl took off again, they should’ve focused mostly on vinyl, even having a used vinyl section of harder to find, older stuff (like Phonoluxe or something). Could’ve been a money maker and you could’ve turned the upper parts of the building into a bar.
March 1, 2024 @ 11:50 am
At the risk of raining on parades, i think the record shop’s days were numbered and no amount of capitalizing on trends could have saved a business that was already riding nostalgia and legacy instead of real relevance.
At some point, you have to ask the piano playing dog not whether he is a dog, but how well he can play the piano.
Nostalgia, legacy, cultural icon or no, people simply don’t go to dedicated brick and mortar stores the way they used to.
And vinyl sales have increased, sure, but disposable income hasn’t.
People just aren’t buying lots of records, they buy the few records from those really special acts that put out that one vinyl.
It’s not any one person buying lots of vinyl, it’s that same person buying a once in a while vinyl.
And while we are seeing backlash to digital, physical media just isn’t something that can drive a business anymore.
Think about this:
1972, the only place to know what’s new in music is the record store.
2022. before you can even get to the record store you’ve been bombarded with eleven advertisements for new albums you may or may not like, meanwhile gas has more than tripled, food and rent are up, and your spending power is dropped.
then you get to the record store and have to choose one or two because of your decreased spending power and are basically going to buy something you already know you’ll like while putting dozens of reccomendations from friends and things you heard on youtube on an ever increasing list of things you need to listen to eventually.
The world is changing and a dedicated record store is a hard business in a place like nashville, which doesn’t draw fans of classic country music the way branson does.
in branson, a record store might do well, but not in nashville, a place where most older classic country fans would avoid because of all the boozers blaring stuff older country fans don’t even like.
Making the record shop part of a more modern business is the only way to keep it thriving in its current location because consumer spending habits have changed and the culture of the area has changed.
Now, consumers have choice paralysis and an overwhelming amount of options and limited disposable income, while also being discouraged from going to brick and mortar stores by reduced free time and poor infrastructure that makes driving insufferable.
March 1, 2024 @ 4:44 pm
Overall I agree with your sentiment however gas prices are lower now when adjusting for inflation. And the costs of new vinvl are about the same. (https://www.billboard.com/pro/vinyl-prices-inflation-1978/)
High-Speed internet and digital downloads played into peoples’ desire for instant gratification. “Why pay more when you can pay nothing?”
Nashville has several record stores that are always packed – Grimey’s, Great Escape locations. (The one on West End has the best old country records) The record store in Columbia TN, where I live, used to be the 2nd Ernest Tubb record store location but the store owner said he couldnt get support to help resurrect that title/history.
March 2, 2024 @ 10:58 am
I came here to shout out The Great Escape on Charlotte. I go there at least once a month, and never leave empty-handed. I often tell folks I could walk in there with a grand, and leave broke and happy about it with a solid stack of new vinyl. LOVE that place!
March 1, 2024 @ 5:15 pm
I agree that the economic realities of a physical music store need to be taken into account here. That is why I’m not advocating that they re-open the record store and expect that to fly. I also think it would be just as foolish to open yet another 4-story honky tonk, and thinking that will fly.
“People just aren’t buying lots of records, they buy the few records from those really special acts that put out that one vinyl.It’s not any one person buying lots of vinyl, it’s that same person buying a once in a while vinyl.”
I strongly disagree with that. I will agree that as the gulf between the have’s and the have not’s widens, some folks see vinyl as a luxury.
There are also a large lot of affluent music fans who see the purchase of vinyl as a patronage, and have whole walls devoted to vinyl collections. A 14% rise in the amount of anything being purchased year over year is a massive spike. Vinyl is an extremely lucrative market at the moment that I feel some are still waking up to. It’s not 2005 anymore.
March 1, 2024 @ 2:27 pm
Honor thy music and tradition, except when it matters.
March 1, 2024 @ 5:35 pm
I am brokenhearted and disgusted over this whole situation. And how incredibly disappointing for it to come back into Tubb hands, only for his Grandson to lease it to another dime a dozen bar group with no consideration or care for ET & the shop. I thought & still think Garth Brooks is scum and his obnoxious actions here just underlined his lack of respect for traditional Country, it’s legends, and history. But this move is asinine. How many bars are on Broadway now? How bout just on just those 2 blocks? This will be another unnecessary bar endeavor that will bomb. As was stated, vinyl records are hotter than ever. This is a joke.
March 2, 2024 @ 5:01 am
I recall spending many enjoyable hours in Ernest Tubb’s record store in Nashville and in music valley. Also in many record/CS shops. Sad to see them all go but the fact is with digital downloads, they were not doing enough business to stay open. I have never been into downloads and I do miss the record shops going through the shelves and finding a treasure. Progress is not always good. Too many bars on Broadway now?
March 2, 2024 @ 7:12 am
another historical institution being cannibalized into just one more piece of gaudy tourist trap garbage: it’s practically an American institution at this point.
March 2, 2024 @ 10:57 pm
I had a suspicion that there’s something contrived about the “vinyl” resurgence–and that these LP’s are being bought as collector’s items like concert posters and “coffee table” books–not as media for listening to music.
I had that confirmed or reinforced by something I came across: According to this survey, half of “vinyl” buyers do not actually have a turntable.
https://americansongwriter.com/new-report-50-of-vinyl-record-purchasers-in-u-s-dont-have-a-record-player/
March 3, 2024 @ 7:15 am
I listen to mine.
March 3, 2024 @ 7:59 am
Thats just pathetic. The point of buying physical product is to use it. I have never left an album sealed. Just ridiculous. ( I do think there’s truth in that article among certain demographics, Taylor Swift for example. Her fans buy out the vinyl in force)
I frequent a few used and new record stores and my overall sense is people are largely spinning the records they buy. Perhaps my evidence is anecdotal, I will admit that, but I feel like I have my ear to the ground so to speak. There’s always dialogue in these shops between clerks and customers, and I haven’t yet run into a vinyl buyer who doesn’t use the media as intended. I hear people complain of a skipping used record, or I hear clerks advise customers to clean their records frequently, people ask advice on what cartridges to use, there’s the sonically obsessed customers who swear by the audio file releases like Mobile Fidelity and on and on. So, I don’t think I fully believe vinyl buyers are 50% non users. I suspect that survey was limited to a pocket of purchasers geographically or encompassd a certain age group. Further, there’s a high amount of trading that goes on, with crates of used records coming in each week to these shops from customers looking foe cash or bored with their collection and so on.
March 3, 2024 @ 7:59 pm
I came across that article today too! I have seen evidence of this with friends. I know at least 4 people that I am friends with who admitted to owning vinyl of Taylor Swift, Zach Bryan, etc but don’t have a record player yet.
I’m guilty of buying 10 used records at a time and not listening to some of them til months later – but I have a record players and sound system with floor speakers. I like to also collect out of print steel guitar albums that are only on vinyl.
March 5, 2024 @ 6:37 pm
Nashville changes.way back in the day the opry was legit relevant and people like my grandfather as a teen would go to see it. Then in the 70s you had the opry land phase where the same now middle aged people would take the family .they enjoyed the nostalgia acts while the kidos could ride some rides.then the meh outlet mall meh broadway ere.and now the hipster country era you could call it.