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AMERICAN ROUTES ON INSTAGRAM
NASHVILLE
Take a two-hour trip to Music City, U.S.A. as we hit the high-class and the low-class joints. Nashville has been a hub of playing and recording country music for over 50 years while also generating a steady stream of regional R&B hits. Come backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and meet the people who make it work, from ushers and announcers to long-time cast members Porter Wagoner, Marty Stuart and others. Pop into the venerable Gruhn’s Guitars, grab a bite at the Pancake Pantry and pay respects at country music’s finest final resting place, Spring Hill Cemetery.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Grand Ole Opry Song Jimmy Martin
Jimmy Martin, 1954-1974, Bear Family - Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Uncle Dave Macon
Oxford American: 2006 Southern Music, CMT - CLIP: Opry employee Joe Walker and visitors
- CLIP: Ray Charles
- It Makes No Difference Ray Charles
The Complete Country & Western Recordings 1959 - 1986, Rhino - CLIP: George Jones
- The Great Speckled Bird Roy Acuff
The King of Country Music, Bear Family - CLIP: Charlie Louvin
- When I Stop Dreaming The Louvin Brothers
Classic Country Music: A Smithsonian Collection, Smithsonian Folkways - SEGMENT: Eddie Stubbs
Listen - Honky Tonk Blues Hank Williams
Live at the Grand Ole Opry, Mercury - Instrumental: Green, Green Grass of Home Appalachian Pickers
Old Timey Country, K-Tel - SEGMENT: Porter Wagoner
Listen - Green, Green Grass of Home Porter Wagoner
Greatest Hits, BMG - SEGMENT: Marty Stuart
Listen - Excerpt of "Girl from the North Country" Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, Sony - Instrumental: Sunny Booker T. & the MGs
Hip Hug-Her, Atlantic - Excerpt of "Fox Chase" DeFord Bailey
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music, Warner Bros. - SEGMENT: Bobby Hebb
Listen - Night Train to Memphis Bobby Hebb
Bobby Hebb: The "Sunny" Anthology 1960-1976, World in Gold - Excerpt of "Cotton Fields" Charley Pride
In Person, KOCH - I Fall to Pieces Patsy Cline
The Patsy Cline Collection, MCA - Excerpt of "Three Days" K.D. Lang
Absolute Torch and Twang, Sire - CLIP: K.D. Lang
- CLIP: Tessa Swinehart portraying Minnie Pearl at the Opry
- Excerpt of "Comedy with Minnie Pearl" Hank Williams
Live at the Grand Ole Opry, Mercury - End Bed: Midnight Silence Lloyd Green
Lloyd Green and his Steel Guitar, Americana
HOUR two
- Open Bed: I'll See You in My Dreams Merle Travis
Strictly Guitar, Sundazed - Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha - CLIP: Pancake Pantry
- Milwaukee, Here I Come George Jones and Brenda Carter
40 Years of Duets, Time/Life - Me and Paul Willie Nelson
Nite Life: Greatest Hits & Rare Tracks 1959-1971, Rhino - SEGMENT: Elizabeth Cook
Listen - Don't Come Home a Drinkin' Loretta Lynn
The Nashville Sound... Owen Bradley, MCA/Decca - Instrumental: Stand By Your Man Hits of Western Swing
Hits of Western Swing, CMH - Excerpt of "Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry" John Hartford
Aereo-Plain, Rounder - CLIP: Broadway, Downtown Nashville
- Excerpt of "Guitar Town" Steve Earle
Ain't Never Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-O - SEGMENT: George Gruhn at Gruhn Guitars
Listen - Uncle Pen Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys
From the Vaults: Decca Country Classics 1934-1973, MCA - Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley
The King of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50's Masters, RCA - Instrumental: Peach Pickin' TIme in Georgia Auldridge, Brozman & Grisman
Tone Poems III, Acoustic Disc - The Golden Rocket Hank Snow
RCA Country Legends, Buddha - CLIP: Charlie Louvin on the Grand Ole Opry
- SEGMENT: Opry official photographer Les Leverett
Listen - CLIP: Spring Hill Cemetery
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol
