Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945–1970

Abstract

“Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm … Blues, 1945–1970.” Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, 222 Fifth Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37203. Temporary exhibition, March 27, 2004–Dec. 31, 2005. Daily 9–5, closed Tanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Adults $15.95, youth $7.95, under 5 free, seniors, students, military $13.95. 5,000 sq. ft. Carolyn Tate, senior director of museum services; Daniel Cooper and Michael Gray, curators; esi Design, 1220 Exhibits, and Country Music Hall of Fame, designers. For over three-quarters of a century, people have recognized Nashville, Tennessee, as the home of commercial country music. This well-known affiliation commenced when radio station wsm began broadcasting the Grand Ole Opry barn-dance program in the mid-1920s. In the ensuing decades, countless white rural and working-class artists, musicians, songwriters, and fans—along with numerous recording companies, booking agencies, management services, and music publishers—transformed the “Athens of the South” (a nineteenth-century moniker adopted by...