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The other night I tuned in to Wille's Road House on the Sirius. I like to listen to some of the country classics.
They were live from the Grand Ol Opry, and for a guest they had Jeannie Seely. Said she had been a member of the Grand Ol Opry for over 50 years.
Well, I never heard of her, 50 years ago I wasn't listening to Grand Ol Opry.
She spoke for several minutes, she was hard to understand. Voice very scratchy, really, she had lost most of her speaking voice. Well you have to give her credit for stepping foot on stage after all, she is 80 years old.
I thought she was going to introduce the next act.
No, the "next act" was Jeannie Seely. She started to "sing" a song and it was pathetic. She lost her voice a long long time ago. She sounded horrible.
Why do they put a washed up old star on the air? I am sure that, 55 years ago she was a good looking gal in Nashville and could sing well.
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The Opry lost an age discrimination suit a while back. I don't know that is the specific reason in the case you're referring to.
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Vince Gill sang Look at Us to my parents on their 50th anniversary last time I was there. Nice theater compared to the Ryman.
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Same reason folks post Linda Rhonstadt videos on Friday night music threads.
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I’ll be in Grand Ole Opry parking lot in the morning tomorrow but, I’m going to BassPro
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The Grand Ol Opry's days are long in the past, it's just a tourist attraction for geezers any more. The last time I was there, about 15 years ago, maybe 10% of the seats were filled and most of those were folks in their 70's and 80's.
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Last time I was at The opry it was Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood .
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage STFU.....Terrible mental picture there................now I'm going to have bad dreams.
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage STFU.....Terrible mental picture there................now I'm going to have bad dreams. I've got no knowledge about Minnie's proclivities, but the Grand Ol' Opry folks, in general, were wild types. My Dad was hanging with the Midwestern Hayride (WLW in Cincinnati) crowd back in the day. Folks came up from Nashville all the time for guest appearances. Dad said there were wild times. I had the inspiration several years ago to resurrect the idea of Midwestern Hayride idea when I had an association with a fellow that owned a hillbilly bar and was drawing crowds from 3 states. He had some really good acts coming in, and it wouldn't have been all that hard to record the shows. Crickets. Nobody wanted it. That hillbilly bar is now a garage. From what I understand, the Hee Haw reboot got shelved for lack of interest as well. Anyone hear anything about that?
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No HEE HAW because Buck & Roy ded.
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage 😄😄😄😄😄
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The last couple live shows I went to, most of the crowd watched the band through their phone screen as they recorded the show. So, there's your reason you can't market a regular show. They'll.just watch youtube.
The real talent in country these days doesn't make it on pop radio anyway. Nobody ever heard of Sierra Ferrell or Like Bell. They would have been huge if born sixty years ago.
Old Crow Medicine Show is on the Opry I think. Absolutely worth catching them on tour.
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Country taint Country no more! The kids don’t know s hit from shineola!!
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I like Texas Red Dirt music, somewhat like the old stuff. Cody Jinks sounds like the old stars.
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage STFU.....Terrible mental picture there................now I'm going to have bad dreams. I've got no knowledge about Minnie's proclivities, but the Grand Ol' Opry folks, in general, were wild types. My Dad was hanging with the Midwestern Hayride (WLW in Cincinnati) crowd back in the day. Folks came up from Nashville all the time for guest appearances. Dad said there were wild times. I had the inspiration several years ago to resurrect the idea of Midwestern Hayride idea when I had an association with a fellow that owned a hillbilly bar and was drawing crowds from 3 states. He had some really good acts coming in, and it wouldn't have been all that hard to record the shows. Crickets. Nobody wanted it. That hillbilly bar is now a garage. From what I understand, the Hee Haw reboot got shelved for lack of interest as well. Anyone hear anything about that? Some things just need to die.
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The “Old” Grand Ol Opry” was great,
“But when you cross that ol' Red River hoss
That just don't mean a thing
Once youre down in Texas
Bob Wills is still the king.”
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When you have chicken heads singing WAP and gaysians singing butter theres no place for country anymore.
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It ain't been worth going to, since Roy Acuff and Little Jimmy Dickens were spit roasting Minnie Pearl backstage I spit coffee all over my screen on that one! Yeah, Minnie was never much of a looker, even as a young lady. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/gallery/80/medium/162512.jpg) But sometimes the homely ones are tthe most appreciative of male attention...
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