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.

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.

Vince Gill sang Look at Us to my parents on their 50th anniversary last time I was there. Nice theater compared to the Ryman.

Same reason folks post Linda Rhonstadt videos on Friday night music threads.

All you know is all you know.

I’ll be in Grand Ole Opry parking lot in the morning tomorrow but, I’m going to BassPro

lol


I need a driver 😃

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.

Last time I was at The opry it was Brad Paisley & Carrie Underwood .

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?

No HEE HAW because Buck & Roy ded.

😄😄😄😄😄

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.

Country taint Country no more! The kids don’t know s hit from shineola!!

I like Texas Red Dirt music, somewhat like the old stuff. Cody Jinks sounds like the old stars.

Some things just need to die.

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.”

When you have chicken heads singing WAP and gaysians singing butter theres no place for country anymore.

I spit coffee all over my screen on that one!

Yeah, Minnie was never much of a looker, even as a young lady.



But sometimes the homely ones are tthe most appreciative of male attention...

There's truth there. I was never a big classic country fan growing up. My family watched Midwestern Hayride as well as the Porter Wagoner show, but that was because it gave Dad a chance to point at the screen and say, "I used to drink with him." "I dated her!" "I had them for tenants!"

Hee Haw came on, and it was similar-- I can remember Kenny Price living in one of our 1-bedroom apartments. If anything, that was were I started I started to like the music more.

The other day, my phone was acting up and I couldn't get Pandora to work. My fallback was to turn on WOBO out of Batavia and listen to it on the ride back in from the farm. It was the Classic Country show, and it was all stuff that you'd had to be hardcore Country to remember. Every song played on the 90 minutes I listened to was

. . . about some guy who'd been a dumbass
. . . about some woman who'd made bad life decisions
. . . about some really nasty disaster
. . . there was one about a dead dog.

I finally turned it over to WLW to listen to the Reds lose. I realized that David Allen Coe really did have it right when he wrote "You Never Call Me by My Name."

I was reminded of a discussion I'd had with Angus when he was much younger. We were listening to WOBO on the way back to town. WOBO is a grab bag public station. You never know what's going to be on: Big Band, Country, Polish, German, Bluegrass (that show is aces) -- it's all over the road. We were listening to the Polish show, just to have something on, and I like listening to really different things.

There was a tune that was probably from the 1950's-- some really insipid love ballad (and in Polish), and Angus said to me. "Dad, how could anyone listen to that?"

"Son," I said. "Just remember that somewhere, out there is a Polish couple getting all teary-eyed, because this was their favorite song when they were in love. You just can't figure your tastes are like everyone else's."

Yes many are quite old, and many have left the stage of life.....but, at least the “Opry” still has real, true country music performers! I’d much rather listen to someone that is loosing what was once a great gift.....than the crap they call country music today! memtb

We had a radio station here, that called itself Old Classic Country and Western Music...

They'd play stuff back to the 1920s...

I use to listen to it in the garage at night, before Coast to Coast came on...

They would play old time stuff, the original of some of modern music. Example, Like George Thorogood's "Move it on Over", one of his Signature Songs... and then play the original version by The Brothers Maddox and Sister Rose, from 1936....

They would go back and play the originals of a Lot of what is considered Rock & Roll later in time, but was originally a Country or Western Song back in the 30s and 40s
and there was a lot of songs, that had their roots back to that time period, as Country & Western songs.

They also played a lot of early Bob Wills....

Family owned, but one of the owners passed away, the station closed down, and the kids sold it to another local radio station...

they still play country, but not the old type they were famous for...

I sure miss old KRRM....

Stop the Presses!!!

I was talking to KYHillChick just now. She just got back from a trip to the KY/TN border to meet up with distant relatives. One woman was from SD another from Kansas City, MO. There next stop after visiting the old homestead was. . .(drum roll)

The Grand Ole Opry to see Jeanie Seely!

KYHillChick came home, but she's in touch with the two women. Both thought Jeanie Seely was wonderful. They were so happy they'd come all that way for the show.


Go figure!!!

I'm not saying anyone here is right or wrong. It's a diverse world out there, guys

I leave you with this. I originally heard this on WOBO a while back: Polish Country




Whodathunk!

A lot of the “Country stars” are now woke azzholes!

Ron

I find it a little sad but somewhat predictable that someone would take such pride in their ignorance.

That YOU have never heard of this lady, or that YOU were not listening to the Grand Old Opry 50 years ago is of no importance.

What is important is the fact that this lady has been a member of the Grand Old Opry for 50 years and that they were honoring her legacy. They have my greatest respect for that.

And if she can't sing well anymore, it isn't the point.

Just listen and be polite, and let her have her moment in the sun while she is still alive.

Things change over time. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Cars are much better today than they were in 1950. The fact that the Grand Ole Opry still exists is a tribute to its tenacity. I read George Strait turned down an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry. Dont know anymore than that.

Terry Bradshaw is one of the all time great quarterbacks. I remember him throwing touchdown passes to Lynn Swann, and winning the Super Bowl, time and again.
Forty years later, he is an old guy, kind of fat and bald, he is a sports announcer.
If Terry were to put on the pads, and go out onto the field today and try to play quarterback, he would make a fool out of himself. He is too old to play any more, and he knows it.


I turn on Willie's Road House several times a week and, unfortunately, once or twice per month there is the antique singer Jeannie, live, croaking out her songs. She is a regular guest at the Grand Ol Opry. She ought to take a lesson from Terry Bradshaw and quit while she is ahead.

I bet she could porn Star it up really good

I miss the old stuff. Nothing to replace it with now.

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