We are in Nashville, Tennessee at the Nashville Country RV Park. On our first full day here we went to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. We saw the special yearlong display honoring superstar Reba Entire. They had her costumes, memorabilia, and a nice documentary about her life in the spotlight. The film highlights her years in the rodeo, singing as a kid, her rise to music super stardom, her film, television, and Broadway acting career.
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| Reba's Accomplishments |
The rest of the hall of fame was awesome too. Lots of info about all of the members of the hall of fame as well as possible future inductees. There is an area that has all of the plaques of the members of the hall, a restaurant, hundreds of displays, guitars, and of course, numerous walls of silver, gold and platinum albums. There is a He Haw display and so much more. It takes several hours to go through, but it is worth it.
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| Debbie at one of the walls of Gold & Platinum records | | | | | | |
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| One of the walls of hall of fame plaques |
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| Dolly Parton's plaque, one of the many |
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| Part of the huge Carrie Underwood display |
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| One or Porter Wagoner's fabulous suits |
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| One of Hank William's suits |
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| Country Superstar wanna be Debbie on the red carpet |
On day three we drove to the Loveless Motel & Cafe, a former motel, now a restaurant and tourist trap. The motel rooms and cabins are now stores. While we were there, a group with some 1920's cars came on a trip from Natchez to Nashville. We got to see the cars, but didn't eat or buy anything in the shops.
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| Autumn is here and the colors are starting to turn |
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| More colors |
Later that day we checked another item off of our bucket list. The Grand Ole Opry. Eight acts that all were exceptional. 4,400 screaming fans got to see and hear Maggie Rose, Dustin Lynch, and country legends the Del McCoury Band, Montgomery Gentry, Larry Gatlin, T.G. Shepard, Ricky Skaggs and Bee Gees legend Barry Gibb singing with Kelly Lang. We could take photos, but videotaping was forbidden. I cannot tell you in words, how great this two and a half hours was. We will come back to Nashville just for the Grand Ole Opry. The Grand Ole Opry is a live radio show on W.S.M., Sirius radio, and many other stations. It is the longest running radio show on Earth. Ricky Scaggs and Barry Gibbs sang several BeeGees hits and brought the house down!
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| Maggie Rose |
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| The Del McCoury Group |
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| Dustin Lynch |
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| Larry Gatlin with his daughter |
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| T.G Shepard |
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| Montgomery Gentry |
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| Barry Gibb & Kelly Lang sang "Islands in the Sky" to a standing ovation |
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| Rick Skaggs |
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| Barry Gibb & Ricky Skaggs brought down the house! What a night! |
On our last full day in Nashville we went to tour Barbara Mandrell's Log Cabin "Fontanel", all 27,000 square feet on 136 acres. This is a lavish palace, full of memorabilia, swimming pool, shooting range, family rooms and guest rooms. Saying "Lavish" might do this home an injustice. Luxurious!
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| The front porch area of the "Log Cabin", plus wings on each side. |
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| The Dining Room |
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| The reception area full of memoribilia. See Debbie on the far couch. |
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| Overlooking the pool area |
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| The pool is covered and will be used as a dance floor at a wedding this week |
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| An upstairs hallway, full of memoribilia on the way to the bedrooms |
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| Barbara's Miss Tennessee Teen USA sash |
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| A guitar signed by The Eagles |
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| Half of Barbar's bathroom with a marble bath tub |
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| The other half of Barbara's bathroom and makeup table |
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| Play cards in the gameroom |
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| Play the juke box or the Dolly Pardon Pinball Machine |
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| Debbie the Soda Jerk in the gameroom |
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| Play pool in the gameroom |
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| Downtown Nashville in the morning fog |
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| The Tennessee Titans Stadium |
