Nashville, Country Music City, USA. On our way to Nashville, we stopped in to see the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Battlefield. Arriving in Nashville, we went to the Grand Ole Opry to see a show which was also broadcast live on radio as it has been since 1925. The show featured a number of performers and concluded with the induction of The Old Crow Medicine Show as members of the Opry. If you haven't heard their song Wagon Wheel (which they wrote with Bob Dylan), you should check it out. It is a great song. The next day we went to the Ryman Auditorium and stayed foe 3 hours listening to a number of bands do their sound checks for the evening show. We saw Stephen Stills play For What Its Worth a couple of times with a few other lucky people. After watching the show take form, we couldn't resist buying tickets for the sold out show from a scalper. On my way to the bank machine I ran in to one of the artists, Billy Bragg, and I got a chance to thank him for his great music and that I was particularly fond of his songs A New England and St. Swithins Day, which I think he was pretty happy to hear. He was really nice guy.

Snodgrass House 

Emily in her second row seat at The Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

Old Crow Medicine Show

RCA Studio B Piano

Les Paul's prototype solid body guitar, The Log

Band playing at Ribbies on Broadway

Stephen Stills' sound check at The Ryman