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
Intro 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 Jo 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
SEGMENT: Eddie Stubbs
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
Green Green Grass of Home Porter Wagoner
Greatest Hits, BMG
SEGMENT: Marty Stuart
Excerpt of "Girl from the North Country" Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, Sony (DVD)
Instrumental: Sunny Booker T. & The MG's
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
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
Open Bed: Nashville Cats The Lovin' Spoonful
Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, Buddha
CLIP: Pancake Pantry (Nashville, TN)
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
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
Guitar Town Steve Earle
Ain't Ever Satisfied: The Steve Earle Collection, Hip-O
SEGMENT: George Gruhn at Gruhn Guitars
Uncle Pen Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
From the Vaults: Decca Country Classics 1934 - 1973, MCA
Blue Moon of Kentucky Elvis Presley
The King of Rock 'N Roll: The Complete '50s 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: Les Leverett, official Opry photographer
CLIP: Spring Hill Cemetery (Nashville, TN)
Will The Circle Be Unbroken Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Capitol