On November 28th, 1925, 94 years ago this week, the Wsm Barn Dance was born. Fashioned after the already popular National Barn Dance, which premiered in April 1924 on Chicago radio station Wls, the show would later be christened the Grand Ole Opry, after host George D. Hay noted that a slate of performers playing hillbilly music, fiddle tunes, and the like would follow a just-completed classical music program. On a Saturday night in 1927, just before harmonica whiz DeFord Bailey played “Pan American Blues,” Hay told the radio audience, “For the next three hours,...
- 11/28/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
With the release of a new single and video for “This Old House,” singer Clint Black pays homage to the Grand Ole Opry, which he joined in 1991. The new clip offers a rare glimpse backstage at the Opry House and features archival footage of Opry legends including Minnie Pearl and the Opry’s founder and first announcer, the “Solemn Old Judge,” George D. Hay.
“This Old House” also spotlights Black’s fellow Opry members Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, Travis Tritt, and Steve Wariner, as well as country compatriots Cody Jinks,...
“This Old House” also spotlights Black’s fellow Opry members Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, Travis Tritt, and Steve Wariner, as well as country compatriots Cody Jinks,...
- 11/1/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
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