1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville. Hi, I'm Sarah Harrelson, your host 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: of Taking a Walk Nashville, and today I'm here with 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,639 Speaker 1: the senior director of Editorial and Interpretation at the Country 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Paul Kingsbury. 5 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being on Taking a Walk Nashville. O. 6 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for having us, Sarah. 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:19,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. 8 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: So we're here and the new Muscle Shoals Low Rhythm 9 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: Rising Exhibit. 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 2: It just opens and. 11 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:28,640 Speaker 1: It's going to be here at the Country Music Hall 12 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: of Fame and Museum. 13 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,280 Speaker 3: For three years. 14 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,200 Speaker 4: Crash right, Yeah, yeah, so people have lots of opportunity 15 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:35,000 Speaker 4: to come see this. 16 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:38,479 Speaker 3: We're really excited because we worked. 17 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 4: On this exhibit for about three years to do all 18 00:00:41,479 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 4: the research and contact everybody we need to fill this up. 19 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: Wow. 20 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: So all of the artifacts that we're seeing as we 21 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: walk through here today are from the Shoals. 22 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, well they are now. 23 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,959 Speaker 4: In some cases we had to reach farther afield than 24 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,320 Speaker 4: North Alabama. 25 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,360 Speaker 3: We got some items for the Rock and Roll Hall 26 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 3: of Fame. 27 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 4: They loaned us some we got some from other places, 28 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:09,679 Speaker 4: but we definitely had a lot of interaction with the 29 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 4: North Alabama community. All around Muscle Shoals to make this 30 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 4: happen very cool. 31 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:17,240 Speaker 2: Well, I am excited to walk through it. 32 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: Let's definitely explore it and tell listeners about the artifacts 33 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 1: we're seeing today. 34 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just tell folks that, you know, when you 35 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:30,479 Speaker 4: walk in the exhibit, you can maybe maybe listeners can 36 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 4: barely hear in the background we have Wilson Pickett's famous 37 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 4: Land of a Thousand Dances playing, because we have a 38 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,400 Speaker 4: little looped video that gives people the taste of all 39 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,600 Speaker 4: the many folks who worked to record it in Muscle 40 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 4: Shoals and made major hits. 41 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 3: And then we've got this wonderful. 42 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 4: Wall display of of lots of photos of some of 43 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:57,360 Speaker 4: the famous people who came to to Muscle Sholes to record, 44 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 4: like they're rolling Stones and Bob Seeger and Arthur Alexander 45 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: and Wilson Ficken, Percy sledgend Aretha Franklin, and we'll hear 46 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 4: about those as we walked through. 47 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many different artists that have come down 48 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: to the Shoals to record. And you know, Muscle Shoals 49 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: is only about a two and a half hour drive 50 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: from Nashville, So when the Hall of Fame decided to 51 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: do this exhibit. Was it because there's such a strong 52 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: connection between Nashville and Muscle Shoals. 53 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there is. 54 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 4: And also, you know, we've long been aware of the 55 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 4: powerful music that. 56 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 3: Was made there. 57 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 4: An interesting connection that we talk about in this exhibit 58 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 4: is that one of the key the first key studio 59 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 4: in Muscle Shoals, the Fame Studio, the rhythm section. The 60 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 4: guys who were who were playing backing on the sessions there. 61 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 4: They were so that in nineteen sixty four, after they've 62 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 4: been recorded there for about five years, they moved. 63 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 3: Up to Nashville and became a team session players up here. 64 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: Wow. And we got to see some of those session 65 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: players here the other night. 66 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: During the exhibit celebration concert. 67 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: It was such a great night there were they were 68 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: celebrating the songs with the Shoals with by Levette, Maggie Rose, 69 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: Wendy Mountain, Shenandoah, many other artists, and it was so 70 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 1: cool just saying spinner all of them there. Did you 71 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: have a favorite moment of the night during opening concert. 72 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 4: Well, I really loved when Betty Levette, you know who's 73 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:39,720 Speaker 4: I guess she's in her late seventies now, got up 74 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 4: and she was when she was singing, she was dancing 75 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 4: all over the stage and she really brought the energy. 76 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 3: I'll tell you that. 77 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 4: You know a guy who's been in Nashville a long time, 78 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,320 Speaker 4: Jimmy Hall, I mean he he knocked it out of 79 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 4: the park too when he's sang things like Land of 80 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 4: a Thousand Dances. 81 00:03:57,680 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there was a lot of energy. 82 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 2: In that show, so much energy. Everyone was great. It 83 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: was such a great kickoff to this exhibit. And there's 84 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: so many great artifacts in here. 85 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: As we're walking around, I saw you had a costume 86 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: from Wilson Pickett. 87 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: What other artifacts can we expect to see? 88 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Well, when people walk in, they're going 89 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 4: to see a costume from the seventies from Kandy Stayton, 90 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 4: who was one of our artists who performed at the concert. 91 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 4: She told us she's eighty five years old. She was 92 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 4: fantastic and she recorded a lot of great songs that 93 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 4: were covers of country music songs that she did in 94 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 4: her own R and. 95 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,640 Speaker 3: B wa and yeah. 96 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 4: In terms of artifacts, I mean, we're walking past a 97 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 4: case that shows the roots of muscle shoals music and 98 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 4: famous people like Sam Phillips, who starred Sun Records in Memphis, 99 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 4: and Arthur Alexander, one of the first big artists to 100 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 4: come out Ofussel Shoals. They're represented here with artifacts. We've 101 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 4: even got Arthur's passport and the ledger he used to 102 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 4: keep up with the royalty payments that he made. 103 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 2: Very cool. And I think over there we have Aretha's 104 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:16,080 Speaker 2: piano that she. 105 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 4: Played in Yes, that's a centerpiece of the exhibit. So 106 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 4: Aretha Franklin turned around her whole career when she came 107 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 4: to Muscle Shoals in nineteen sixty seven. And she had 108 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 4: been recording for years but never had a hit until 109 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,400 Speaker 4: she came to Muscle Shoals and she recorded the famous 110 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 4: song I Never loved a Man the Way I Love 111 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 4: You Ye with Muscle Shoals musicians in that launched her 112 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 4: whole career to become the. 113 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,719 Speaker 2: Queen of soul. Wow, he's so special. 114 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, So we've got that on loan from the Fame Studio. 115 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 4: We've got a beautiful dress from the early seventies from Maretha. 116 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,600 Speaker 3: We just passed Wilson. 117 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 5: Pickett's fabulous costume here that he wore on the cover 118 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 5: of his Best of Wilson Picket Bollion two album, the 119 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 5: album that includes. 120 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 4: His famous cover of the Beatles Hey You, where he 121 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 4: sings his heart out and he's matched lick for lick 122 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 4: by Dwayne Almon of the Almond Brothers, who was then 123 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 4: a session musician. And not only do we have Wilson 124 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 4: Pickett represented here, but if we walk down here, you'll 125 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 4: see we have two guitars that Dwayne Almond plays, Yeah Erry, 126 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 4: which you know, those are both on loan and we're 127 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 4: really excited to have them both. And people know the 128 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 4: Almond Brothers music, but they may not know that for 129 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 4: a period before the Almond Brothers got started, Dwayne was 130 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 4: really site to be able to be a session musician 131 00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 4: playing behind great R and B artists, muscle Shoals. 132 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: There's so many great artifacts here in the museum. What 133 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: do you hope people will take from this when they 134 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: explore this exhibit? 135 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 4: I think you know a subtext to this exhibit is 136 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 4: that music brings people together. 137 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 3: And the people who made the big hits and muscle Shoals, 138 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 3: both the artists. 139 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 4: And the producers, the entrepreneurs, wanted to cross racial boundaries 140 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 4: right and so early on with so. 141 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 3: Many hits from Muscle Shoals. 142 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: It was. 143 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 4: Black R and B singers getting together with crack session 144 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 4: musicians that were white in Muscle Shoals. And they kind 145 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 4: of did this all under the radar because this was 146 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 4: in the era when civil rights was still trying to 147 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,920 Speaker 4: take hold and before the Civil Rights Act was passed 148 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 4: in sixty four, and so you had black artists, white 149 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,120 Speaker 4: musicians making incredible music. 150 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 3: And eventually, as this exhibit tells the. 151 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 4: Story, it went beyond just black artists and white musicians. 152 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 4: It muscle shows became a magnet for artists from not 153 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 4: only all over America. And we're talking about artists like 154 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 4: Paul Simon and Bob Seeger and Cher and the Ozman Brothers. 155 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,800 Speaker 4: We're also talking about artists that came over from England 156 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 4: like the Rolling Stones and Traffic with Stevie Winwood and 157 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 4: Joe Cocker all recording and. 158 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 3: Muscle Shoals because the music was. 159 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 4: So powerful and they wanted to get into the studios 160 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 4: with these players. 161 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of under the radar, Muscle Shoals is 162 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: a pretty small town, so it was definitely. 163 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 2: A great way to for multiple artists. 164 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: Of different genres to come together record, but I also 165 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: heard Rolling Stones. You know, they were coming over from 166 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: the UK and they had a little bit of trouble 167 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 1: recording in LA because of their green cards. 168 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,559 Speaker 2: So Muscle Shoals was the perfect place for them. 169 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:13,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 170 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 4: They talked to some folks who said, hey, you know, 171 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,080 Speaker 4: we can kind of get on under the radar if 172 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 4: we go to Muscle Shoals. Nobody's paying attention there, right, 173 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 4: And so they came in recorded three songs, two of 174 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 4: their biggest they recorded. 175 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 3: You know, they recorded a Brown Sugar. 176 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,000 Speaker 4: You recorded wild Horses there while they're Muscle Shoals and 177 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 4: both big hits. 178 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: And Tierra Kennedy did a great job of wild Horses. 179 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 3: He sure did it that concert. 180 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well what else is there for us? 181 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 4: Well, so we're actually looking at a case right here. 182 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 4: I'm sure a lot of people still know the classic 183 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 4: R and B song I'll take you there by the 184 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 4: Staple Singers. 185 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 3: Well, we have the dresses for the three sisters. 186 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 4: And the Staple singers, along with the suit in telecaster 187 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,640 Speaker 4: guitar of Pops Staples, their father who was in the band. 188 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 4: So we've got the costume stage costumes, Cleotha, Yvonne and 189 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 4: Mavis Staples. 190 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,000 Speaker 2: Right here in front of everybody. 191 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 4: We've got well gold I'm sorry, a platinum record that 192 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 4: Bob Dylan got for recording in Muscle Shoals for his 193 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:27,240 Speaker 4: album Slow Train Coming. 194 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 2: Very cool. And you said this exhibit is five thousand 195 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 2: square feet. 196 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And in addition to all. 197 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 4: Of the artifacts that are on display, people will get 198 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 4: to see clips of interviews. We get fifty hours of 199 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 4: interviews with people in Muscle Shoals and they can see 200 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 4: clips that we've cut on TVs here. We've got also 201 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 4: clips from a very well done documentary on Muscle Shoals 202 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,040 Speaker 4: back in twenty thirteen. 203 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 3: We've got touchscreen interactives. 204 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,840 Speaker 4: And if you want, we can walk up to those 205 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 4: and you can play with them for a mo. We've 206 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 4: got a sixty song jukebox people can listen to. We've 207 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 4: got information on the session musicians, on the songwriters, on 208 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,600 Speaker 4: the recording studios. Because it's more than one studio that 209 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 4: was active in Muscle Shoals. 210 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, you have the Fame Studios, Muscle Shoal Sound Studios, 211 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: quite a few studios happening. 212 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we have thirteen studios featured in or interactive. 213 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 3: Let's see if we go to studios, you'll see we've. 214 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 4: Got a whole thing here where of course we've got Fame. 215 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:37,080 Speaker 3: And we've got Muscle Show Sound Studio, and. 216 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 4: People can read a little bit of history, they can 217 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,960 Speaker 4: swipe through photos and these places, and if they. 218 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 3: Want to hear music, they can go to our jukebox. 219 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 3: You could play anything you like here. 220 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 4: I mean, here's a famous song. This is I'm Your 221 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,800 Speaker 4: Puppet by James and Bobby Purify, written by Dan Penn 222 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 4: and Spointer Oldham. 223 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 2: I like that you selected that one. 224 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: That's a song my mom would always play for me 225 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: and sing to me when. 226 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 2: I was little. 227 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 3: Really, that's wonderful, one of my favorites. 228 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 229 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 1: Well, this is a great way for people if they're 230 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,760 Speaker 1: coming in Nashville to see this exhibit, and then they 231 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: can even just drive down to Muscle Shoals. 232 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 3: Sure it can. 233 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 4: Check out you you can go and get tours of 234 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 4: Fame Studio and Muscle Shoal Sound Studio. They regularly have 235 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 4: music events there that people can go here. 236 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 3: I would hope that people would. 237 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 4: Come here, experience some of this and take some of 238 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,000 Speaker 4: these stories and music with them. We've got a great, 239 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:50,880 Speaker 4: uh full color companion book that. 240 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 3: We created to go with the exhibit. 241 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 4: If people can pick up in our museum store or 242 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 4: buy online. 243 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:01,000 Speaker 3: In fact, it's don't come here, they can get it 244 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 3: on Amazon if they. 245 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,520 Speaker 1: Will, of course, and this is going to be a 246 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,960 Speaker 1: very popular exhibit. 247 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,960 Speaker 2: But people are coming here to visit. What other exhibits 248 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 2: do you recommend that. 249 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 4: They explore while when we are in a museum. So 250 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 4: we have a fabulous exhibit on Dolly Parton. We collaborated 251 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 4: with her last year or earlier this year on that we've. 252 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 3: Got Dolly Parton. 253 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 4: We've got a huge exhibit on Landy Wilson, we have 254 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 4: a great exhibit on Roseanne Cash, a pretty new exhibit 255 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,320 Speaker 4: that we open this fall on one hundred years of 256 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 4: Grand Ole Opry history. And we also have our permanent 257 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 4: exhibit in the museum that's kind of a walk through 258 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:47,000 Speaker 4: country music history from the earliest commercial origins and pre 259 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 4: commercial origins at the beginning of the twentieth century on 260 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 4: up to the present day. And then every year we 261 00:13:55,200 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 4: refresh an exhibit in the early spring called American Currents, 262 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 4: which covers the big events and prominent artists of the 263 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 4: previous year. 264 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 3: So if people want to see who we've. 265 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 4: Got represented for the year twenty twenty four. You've got 266 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 4: that all up in American currens right now. Too. 267 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 2: Very cool. 268 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: There's always so many different exhibits coming in and out 269 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: of here. 270 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,960 Speaker 2: In addition to that, there's always events happening here. 271 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: You at the Taylor Swift Education Center, you have shows 272 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: on the weekends, usually songwritere rounds on Sundays, so people 273 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: have kids, Can they do any sort of workshops? 274 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, we have lots of We have lots of education 275 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 4: workshops on the weekends, and we encourage folks to go 276 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 4: to our website Country Music Hall of Fame dot org. 277 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 4: Go Look, we have a calendar of events really easy 278 00:14:49,440 --> 00:14:53,840 Speaker 4: to access and people can see any particular date they 279 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 4: want to visit. But for families and kids the weekends, 280 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:58,200 Speaker 4: see the Saturday and Senator you get. 281 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: Time to come through. 282 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 283 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,760 Speaker 1: And the a concert we saw on Friday was at 284 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: the CMA Theater, which is always a wonderful venue to 285 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: see shows as well. 286 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's an eight hundred CED theater and with 287 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 4: many different kinds of shows appear there. And I believe 288 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 4: coming up December twentieth, we have singer songwriter Steve Earle 289 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 4: coming in to. 290 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,560 Speaker 3: Do a show for us. Okay, if you get a membership, 291 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 3: then you can attend to all of these programs and 292 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,560 Speaker 3: attend the museum for free. You get a discount at 293 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:34,160 Speaker 3: our store. It's it's a pretty great deal. I have 294 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 3: several friends who are members and they just be like, Wow, 295 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 3: this is an amazing deal. 296 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 4: You come in see concerts, one of the con concerts 297 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:46,400 Speaker 4: you couldn't see anywhere else for free, and then you 298 00:15:47,160 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 4: get you could drop in with your friends and family 299 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 4: any time. 300 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 2: Wonderful. That's something to look forward to. I love to 301 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: see the rest of the exhibit. 302 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: Paul, You've been in Nashville for quite a while, and 303 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 1: you know, throughout the Country Music Hall of Fame's time, 304 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:05,840 Speaker 1: it moved from Music Row to downtown. It's been through 305 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: so much change. What do you think of the change 306 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: you have seen in. 307 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,080 Speaker 2: Nashville over the years. 308 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 4: I'll tell you one change that I love that people 309 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 4: don't talk about very much is I've been in Nashville 310 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 4: many years, and it didn't used to be the music 311 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 4: town that it is now. It used to be, I 312 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 4: can tell you in the eighties and into the mid nineties, 313 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:37,120 Speaker 4: there just weren't that many concerts and nightclub shows available. 314 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 4: But over time, the music industry has refocused and you 315 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 4: could hear any kind of music you like here in Nashville. 316 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 4: Now we have dozens of great venues, and that's one 317 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 4: thing I love. The other thing that's surprised me over 318 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 4: the years is how vibrant downtown Nashville has become, because 319 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 4: in the eighties and nineties it was a little sketchy downtown. 320 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 4: And we like to feel like when our museum moved 321 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 4: from Music Row here downtown in two thousand and one, 322 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 4: we were part of the whole revival of downtown Nashville, 323 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 4: and we take some pride of ownership in how Nashville 324 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 4: has come back so big in downtown. 325 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not just country music here in Nashville anymore, 326 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: which is why I. 327 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,400 Speaker 2: Think it's special. The Shoals exhibit is here because so. 328 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: Many different genres came out of the Shoals, and I 329 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: think that's what's happening with Nashville. 330 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 2: So many genres of music are coming out of here now. 331 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 332 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 4: You know, I would say even people who are not 333 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 4: sure that their hardcore country fans would enjoy the country 334 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 4: music Hall of fame and certainly this Muscle Shoals exhibit, 335 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 4: because it's not just about country artists like Willie Neilson 336 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 4: or Shenandoah or Bobby Gentry who recorded here. It's about 337 00:17:56,080 --> 00:18:01,639 Speaker 4: Carl Simon, it's about grolling Stones, hit about It's about Wilson, Thicket, 338 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 4: Percy Sledge, the staple singers. All different kinds of music 339 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 4: came out of Muscle Shoals. 340 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 3: And I think. 341 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 4: Folks will also find as they go through the museum 342 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 4: that many artists that they might have some awareness of Blaney, Wilson, 343 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 4: Roseanne Cash, Dolly Parton. They're going to find out about 344 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 4: them in depths and see how they connect with the 345 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:25,880 Speaker 4: wider world. 346 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: Abusic. 347 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool. Absolutely, And Paul, we're on taking a 348 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 2: walk Nashville. 349 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: So I always love to ask this to our guest, 350 00:18:34,960 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: but do you have a favorite place you. 351 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 2: Like to take a walk in Nashville? Is it here 352 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 2: in the museum? 353 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 3: Well, I can't say that. 354 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 2: I mean I love the museum. 355 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,760 Speaker 4: I walk through the museum regularly because I like seeing 356 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,400 Speaker 4: some of these things over and over again. 357 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 3: I'll show you a thing that we are proud to 358 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 3: be able to display. We have the original song. 359 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 4: Manuscript that Chris Stofferson wrote have helped me make it 360 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 4: through the night. And if you could see he wrote 361 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 4: it on the stationary of his publisher, Monument and Who's 362 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 4: also his record label. And this was a very transformative 363 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 4: song because he started to talk about real adult relationships 364 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 4: sexuality to some extent in a way that country music 365 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 4: hadn't gone to before. 366 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 3: But he did it in a very poetic way. And 367 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,399 Speaker 3: of course it's become a standard. So I love walking 368 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 3: past this and looking at this. 369 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,000 Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm trying to get people to come 370 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 4: to Nashville, I will also say we are blessed with 371 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 4: amazing forest parks all over in Nashville. And because I'm 372 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 4: an outdoor guy, I mean loved to go to Radnor Lake, 373 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 4: loved to go to a Warner Parks. 374 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 3: But hey, can you let you some indoors please come 375 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:54,320 Speaker 3: to the Country Us A Call of Fame. 376 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's always something new to check out here. I think, Well, Paul, 377 00:19:59,200 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 2: thank you so. 378 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 1: Much for being on taking a walk in Nashville today, 379 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: and everyone can check out the Country Music Hall of 380 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,120 Speaker 1: Fame and Museum and the Muscle Sholes exhibit. 381 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:10,920 Speaker 2: For the next few years. 382 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:13,920 Speaker 3: All right, Thank you, Sarah. 383 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with singer 384 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 4: songwriter Sarah Harrel Simmer, and check out our other podcasts, Music, 385 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:24,919 Speaker 4: Save Me, Comedy, Save Me, and Taking a Walk. 386 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you 387 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,160 Speaker 1: get your podcasts.