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Exploring Muscle Shoals : Nashville's Music History Insights with Paul Kingsbury from the Country Music Hall of Fame · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville. Hi, I'm Sarah Harrelson, your host
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  Speaker 1: of Taking a Walk Nashville, and today I'm here with
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  Speaker 1: the senior director of Editorial and Interpretation at the Country
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  Speaker 1: Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Paul Kingsbury.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being on Taking a Walk Nashville. O.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for having us, Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we're here and the new Muscle Shoals Low Rhythm
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  Speaker 1: Rising Exhibit.
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  Speaker 2: It just opens and.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be here at the Country Music Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame and Museum.
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  Speaker 3: For three years.
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  Speaker 4: Crash right, Yeah, yeah, so people have lots of opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to come see this.
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  Speaker 3: We're really excited because we worked.
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  Speaker 4: On this exhibit for about three years to do all
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  Speaker 4: the research and contact everybody we need to fill this up.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So all of the artifacts that we're seeing as we
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  Speaker 1: walk through here today are from the Shoals.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well they are now.
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  Speaker 4: In some cases we had to reach farther afield than
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  Speaker 4: North Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: We got some items for the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 3: of Fame.
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  Speaker 4: They loaned us some we got some from other places,
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  Speaker 4: but we definitely had a lot of interaction with the
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  Speaker 4: North Alabama community. All around Muscle Shoals to make this
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  Speaker 4: happen very cool.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am excited to walk through it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's definitely explore it and tell listeners about the artifacts
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing today.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll just tell folks that, you know, when you
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  Speaker 4: walk in the exhibit, you can maybe maybe listeners can
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  Speaker 4: barely hear in the background we have Wilson Pickett's famous
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  Speaker 4: Land of a Thousand Dances playing, because we have a
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  Speaker 4: little looped video that gives people the taste of all
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  Speaker 4: the many folks who worked to record it in Muscle
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  Speaker 4: Shoals and made major hits.
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  Speaker 3: And then we've got this wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: Wall display of of lots of photos of some of
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  Speaker 4: the famous people who came to to Muscle Sholes to record,
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  Speaker 4: like they're rolling Stones and Bob Seeger and Arthur Alexander
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  Speaker 4: and Wilson Ficken, Percy sledgend Aretha Franklin, and we'll hear
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  Speaker 4: about those as we walked through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many different artists that have come down
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  Speaker 1: to the Shoals to record. And you know, Muscle Shoals
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  Speaker 1: is only about a two and a half hour drive
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  Speaker 1: from Nashville, So when the Hall of Fame decided to
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  Speaker 1: do this exhibit. Was it because there's such a strong
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  Speaker 1: connection between Nashville and Muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, there is.
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  Speaker 4: And also, you know, we've long been aware of the
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  Speaker 4: powerful music that.
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  Speaker 3: Was made there.
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  Speaker 4: An interesting connection that we talk about in this exhibit
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  Speaker 4: is that one of the key the first key studio
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  Speaker 4: in Muscle Shoals, the Fame Studio, the rhythm section. The
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  Speaker 4: guys who were who were playing backing on the sessions there.
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  Speaker 4: They were so that in nineteen sixty four, after they've
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  Speaker 4: been recorded there for about five years, they moved.
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  Speaker 3: Up to Nashville and became a team session players up here.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. And we got to see some of those session
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  Speaker 1: players here the other night.
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  Speaker 2: During the exhibit celebration concert.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a great night there were they were
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the songs with the Shoals with by Levette, Maggie Rose,
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  Speaker 1: Wendy Mountain, Shenandoah, many other artists, and it was so
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  Speaker 1: cool just saying spinner all of them there. Did you
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  Speaker 1: have a favorite moment of the night during opening concert.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I really loved when Betty Levette, you know who's
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  Speaker 4: I guess she's in her late seventies now, got up
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  Speaker 4: and she was when she was singing, she was dancing
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  Speaker 4: all over the stage and she really brought the energy.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 4: You know a guy who's been in Nashville a long time,
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Hall, I mean he he knocked it out of
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  Speaker 4: the park too when he's sang things like Land of
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  Speaker 4: a Thousand Dances.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there was a lot of energy.
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  Speaker 2: In that show, so much energy. Everyone was great. It
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  Speaker 2: was such a great kickoff to this exhibit. And there's
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  Speaker 2: so many great artifacts in here.
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  Speaker 1: As we're walking around, I saw you had a costume
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  Speaker 1: from Wilson Pickett.
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  Speaker 2: What other artifacts can we expect to see?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Well, when people walk in, they're going
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  Speaker 4: to see a costume from the seventies from Kandy Stayton,
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  Speaker 4: who was one of our artists who performed at the concert.
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  Speaker 4: She told us she's eighty five years old. She was
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  Speaker 4: fantastic and she recorded a lot of great songs that
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  Speaker 4: were covers of country music songs that she did in
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  Speaker 4: her own R and.
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  Speaker 3: B wa and yeah.
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  Speaker 4: In terms of artifacts, I mean, we're walking past a
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  Speaker 4: case that shows the roots of muscle shoals music and
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  Speaker 4: famous people like Sam Phillips, who starred Sun Records in Memphis,
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  Speaker 4: and Arthur Alexander, one of the first big artists to
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  Speaker 4: come out Ofussel Shoals. They're represented here with artifacts. We've
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  Speaker 4: even got Arthur's passport and the ledger he used to
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  Speaker 4: keep up with the royalty payments that he made.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool. And I think over there we have Aretha's
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  Speaker 2: piano that she.
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  Speaker 4: Played in Yes, that's a centerpiece of the exhibit. So
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  Speaker 4: Aretha Franklin turned around her whole career when she came
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  Speaker 4: to Muscle Shoals in nineteen sixty seven. And she had
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  Speaker 4: been recording for years but never had a hit until
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  Speaker 4: she came to Muscle Shoals and she recorded the famous
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  Speaker 4: song I Never loved a Man the Way I Love
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  Speaker 4: You Ye with Muscle Shoals musicians in that launched her
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  Speaker 4: whole career to become the.
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  Speaker 2: Queen of soul. Wow, he's so special.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So we've got that on loan from the Fame Studio.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a beautiful dress from the early seventies from Maretha.
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  Speaker 3: We just passed Wilson.
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  Speaker 5: Pickett's fabulous costume here that he wore on the cover
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  Speaker 5: of his Best of Wilson Picket Bollion two album, the
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  Speaker 5: album that includes.
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  Speaker 4: His famous cover of the Beatles Hey You, where he
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  Speaker 4: sings his heart out and he's matched lick for lick
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  Speaker 4: by Dwayne Almon of the Almond Brothers, who was then
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  Speaker 4: a session musician. And not only do we have Wilson
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  Speaker 4: Pickett represented here, but if we walk down here, you'll
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  Speaker 4: see we have two guitars that Dwayne Almond plays, Yeah Erry,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, those are both on loan and we're
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  Speaker 4: really excited to have them both. And people know the
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  Speaker 4: Almond Brothers music, but they may not know that for
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  Speaker 4: a period before the Almond Brothers got started, Dwayne was
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  Speaker 4: really site to be able to be a session musician
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  Speaker 4: playing behind great R and B artists, muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many great artifacts here in the museum. What
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  Speaker 1: do you hope people will take from this when they
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  Speaker 1: explore this exhibit?
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  Speaker 4: I think you know a subtext to this exhibit is
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  Speaker 4: that music brings people together.
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  Speaker 3: And the people who made the big hits and muscle Shoals,
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  Speaker 3: both the artists.
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  Speaker 4: And the producers, the entrepreneurs, wanted to cross racial boundaries
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  Speaker 4: right and so early on with so.
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  Speaker 3: Many hits from Muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 1: It was.
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  Speaker 4: Black R and B singers getting together with crack session
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  Speaker 4: musicians that were white in Muscle Shoals. And they kind
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  Speaker 4: of did this all under the radar because this was
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  Speaker 4: in the era when civil rights was still trying to
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  Speaker 4: take hold and before the Civil Rights Act was passed
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  Speaker 4: in sixty four, and so you had black artists, white
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  Speaker 4: musicians making incredible music.
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  Speaker 3: And eventually, as this exhibit tells the.
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  Speaker 4: Story, it went beyond just black artists and white musicians.
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  Speaker 4: It muscle shows became a magnet for artists from not
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  Speaker 4: only all over America. And we're talking about artists like
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  Speaker 4: Paul Simon and Bob Seeger and Cher and the Ozman Brothers.
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  Speaker 4: We're also talking about artists that came over from England
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  Speaker 4: like the Rolling Stones and Traffic with Stevie Winwood and
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  Speaker 4: Joe Cocker all recording and.
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  Speaker 3: Muscle Shoals because the music was.
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  Speaker 4: So powerful and they wanted to get into the studios
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  Speaker 4: with these players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of under the radar, Muscle Shoals is
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  Speaker 1: a pretty small town, so it was definitely.
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  Speaker 2: A great way to for multiple artists.
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  Speaker 1: Of different genres to come together record, but I also
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  Speaker 1: heard Rolling Stones. You know, they were coming over from
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  Speaker 1: the UK and they had a little bit of trouble
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  Speaker 1: recording in LA because of their green cards.
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  Speaker 2: So Muscle Shoals was the perfect place for them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They talked to some folks who said, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we can kind of get on under the radar if
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  Speaker 4: we go to Muscle Shoals. Nobody's paying attention there, right,
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  Speaker 4: And so they came in recorded three songs, two of
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  Speaker 4: their biggest they recorded.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they recorded a Brown Sugar.
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  Speaker 4: You recorded wild Horses there while they're Muscle Shoals and
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  Speaker 4: both big hits.
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  Speaker 1: And Tierra Kennedy did a great job of wild Horses.
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  Speaker 3: He sure did it that concert.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well what else is there for us?
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  Speaker 4: Well, so we're actually looking at a case right here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure a lot of people still know the classic
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  Speaker 4: R and B song I'll take you there by the
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  Speaker 4: Staple Singers.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we have the dresses for the three sisters.
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  Speaker 4: And the Staple singers, along with the suit in telecaster
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  Speaker 4: guitar of Pops Staples, their father who was in the band.
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  Speaker 4: So we've got the costume stage costumes, Cleotha, Yvonne and
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  Speaker 4: Mavis Staples.
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  Speaker 2: Right here in front of everybody.
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  Speaker 4: We've got well gold I'm sorry, a platinum record that
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  Speaker 4: Bob Dylan got for recording in Muscle Shoals for his
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  Speaker 4: album Slow Train Coming.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool. And you said this exhibit is five thousand
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  Speaker 2: square feet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. And in addition to all.
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  Speaker 4: Of the artifacts that are on display, people will get
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  Speaker 4: to see clips of interviews. We get fifty hours of
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  Speaker 4: interviews with people in Muscle Shoals and they can see
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  Speaker 4: clips that we've cut on TVs here. We've got also
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  Speaker 4: clips from a very well done documentary on Muscle Shoals
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  Speaker 4: back in twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 3: We've got touchscreen interactives.
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  Speaker 4: And if you want, we can walk up to those
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  Speaker 4: and you can play with them for a mo. We've
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  Speaker 4: got a sixty song jukebox people can listen to. We've
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  Speaker 4: got information on the session musicians, on the songwriters, on
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  Speaker 4: the recording studios. Because it's more than one studio that
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  Speaker 4: was active in Muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have the Fame Studios, Muscle Shoal Sound Studios,
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  Speaker 1: quite a few studios happening.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we have thirteen studios featured in or interactive.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see if we go to studios, you'll see we've.
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  Speaker 4: Got a whole thing here where of course we've got Fame.
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  Speaker 3: And we've got Muscle Show Sound Studio, and.
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  Speaker 4: People can read a little bit of history, they can
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  Speaker 4: swipe through photos and these places, and if they.
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  Speaker 3: Want to hear music, they can go to our jukebox.
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  Speaker 3: You could play anything you like here.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, here's a famous song. This is I'm Your
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  Speaker 4: Puppet by James and Bobby Purify, written by Dan Penn
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  Speaker 4: and Spointer Oldham.
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  Speaker 2: I like that you selected that one.
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  Speaker 1: That's a song my mom would always play for me
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  Speaker 1: and sing to me when.
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  Speaker 2: I was little.
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  Speaker 3: Really, that's wonderful, one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this is a great way for people if they're
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  Speaker 1: coming in Nashville to see this exhibit, and then they
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  Speaker 1: can even just drive down to Muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 3: Sure it can.
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  Speaker 4: Check out you you can go and get tours of
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  Speaker 4: Fame Studio and Muscle Shoal Sound Studio. They regularly have
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  Speaker 4: music events there that people can go here.
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  Speaker 3: I would hope that people would.
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  Speaker 4: Come here, experience some of this and take some of
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  Speaker 4: these stories and music with them. We've got a great,
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  Speaker 4: uh full color companion book that.
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  Speaker 3: We created to go with the exhibit.
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  Speaker 4: If people can pick up in our museum store or
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  Speaker 4: buy online.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, it's don't come here, they can get it
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  Speaker 3: on Amazon if they.
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  Speaker 1: Will, of course, and this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: very popular exhibit.
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  Speaker 2: But people are coming here to visit. What other exhibits
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  Speaker 2: do you recommend that.
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  Speaker 4: They explore while when we are in a museum. So
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  Speaker 4: we have a fabulous exhibit on Dolly Parton. We collaborated
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  Speaker 4: with her last year or earlier this year on that we've.
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  Speaker 3: Got Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a huge exhibit on Landy Wilson, we have
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  Speaker 4: a great exhibit on Roseanne Cash, a pretty new exhibit
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  Speaker 4: that we open this fall on one hundred years of
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  Speaker 4: Grand Ole Opry history. And we also have our permanent
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  Speaker 4: exhibit in the museum that's kind of a walk through
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  Speaker 4: country music history from the earliest commercial origins and pre
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  Speaker 4: commercial origins at the beginning of the twentieth century on
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  Speaker 4: up to the present day. And then every year we
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  Speaker 4: refresh an exhibit in the early spring called American Currents,
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  Speaker 4: which covers the big events and prominent artists of the
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  Speaker 4: previous year.
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  Speaker 3: So if people want to see who we've.
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  Speaker 4: Got represented for the year twenty twenty four. You've got
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  Speaker 4: that all up in American currens right now. Too.
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  Speaker 2: Very cool.
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  Speaker 1: There's always so many different exhibits coming in and out
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  Speaker 1: of here.
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  Speaker 2: In addition to that, there's always events happening here.
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  Speaker 1: You at the Taylor Swift Education Center, you have shows
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  Speaker 1: on the weekends, usually songwritere rounds on Sundays, so people
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  Speaker 1: have kids, Can they do any sort of workshops?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have lots of We have lots of education
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  Speaker 4: workshops on the weekends, and we encourage folks to go
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  Speaker 4: to our website Country Music Hall of Fame dot org.
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  Speaker 4: Go Look, we have a calendar of events really easy
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  Speaker 4: to access and people can see any particular date they
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  Speaker 4: want to visit. But for families and kids the weekends,
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  Speaker 4: see the Saturday and Senator you get.
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  Speaker 3: Time to come through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the a concert we saw on Friday was at
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  Speaker 1: the CMA Theater, which is always a wonderful venue to
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  Speaker 1: see shows as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, that's an eight hundred CED theater and with
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  Speaker 4: many different kinds of shows appear there. And I believe
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  Speaker 4: coming up December twentieth, we have singer songwriter Steve Earle
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  Speaker 4: coming in to.
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  Speaker 3: Do a show for us. Okay, if you get a membership,
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  Speaker 3: then you can attend to all of these programs and
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  Speaker 3: attend the museum for free. You get a discount at
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  Speaker 3: our store. It's it's a pretty great deal. I have
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  Speaker 3: several friends who are members and they just be like, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: this is an amazing deal.
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  Speaker 4: You come in see concerts, one of the con concerts
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  Speaker 4: you couldn't see anywhere else for free, and then you
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  Speaker 4: get you could drop in with your friends and family
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  Speaker 4: any time.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful. That's something to look forward to. I love to
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  Speaker 2: see the rest of the exhibit.
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  Speaker 1: Paul, You've been in Nashville for quite a while, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, throughout the Country Music Hall of Fame's time,
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  Speaker 1: it moved from Music Row to downtown. It's been through
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  Speaker 1: so much change. What do you think of the change
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  Speaker 1: you have seen in.
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  Speaker 2: Nashville over the years.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you one change that I love that people
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  Speaker 4: don't talk about very much is I've been in Nashville
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  Speaker 4: many years, and it didn't used to be the music
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  Speaker 4: town that it is now. It used to be, I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you in the eighties and into the mid nineties,
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  Speaker 4: there just weren't that many concerts and nightclub shows available.
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  Speaker 4: But over time, the music industry has refocused and you
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  Speaker 4: could hear any kind of music you like here in Nashville.
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  Speaker 4: Now we have dozens of great venues, and that's one
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  Speaker 4: thing I love. The other thing that's surprised me over
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  Speaker 4: the years is how vibrant downtown Nashville has become, because
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  Speaker 4: in the eighties and nineties it was a little sketchy downtown.
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  Speaker 4: And we like to feel like when our museum moved
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  Speaker 4: from Music Row here downtown in two thousand and one,
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  Speaker 4: we were part of the whole revival of downtown Nashville,
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  Speaker 4: and we take some pride of ownership in how Nashville
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  Speaker 4: has come back so big in downtown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's not just country music here in Nashville anymore,
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  Speaker 1: which is why I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's special. The Shoals exhibit is here because so.
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  Speaker 1: Many different genres came out of the Shoals, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what's happening with Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: So many genres of music are coming out of here now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I would say even people who are not
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  Speaker 4: sure that their hardcore country fans would enjoy the country
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  Speaker 4: music Hall of fame and certainly this Muscle Shoals exhibit,
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  Speaker 4: because it's not just about country artists like Willie Neilson
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  Speaker 4: or Shenandoah or Bobby Gentry who recorded here. It's about
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  Speaker 4: Carl Simon, it's about grolling Stones, hit about It's about Wilson, Thicket,
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  Speaker 4: Percy Sledge, the staple singers. All different kinds of music
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  Speaker 4: came out of Muscle Shoals.
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  Speaker 3: And I think.
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  Speaker 4: Folks will also find as they go through the museum
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  Speaker 4: that many artists that they might have some awareness of Blaney, Wilson,
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  Speaker 4: Roseanne Cash, Dolly Parton. They're going to find out about
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  Speaker 4: them in depths and see how they connect with the
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  Speaker 4: wider world.
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  Speaker 1: Abusic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very cool. Absolutely, And Paul, we're on taking a
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  Speaker 2: walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: So I always love to ask this to our guest,
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  Speaker 1: but do you have a favorite place you.
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  Speaker 2: Like to take a walk in Nashville? Is it here
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  Speaker 2: in the museum?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't say that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I love the museum.
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  Speaker 4: I walk through the museum regularly because I like seeing
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  Speaker 4: some of these things over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you a thing that we are proud to
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  Speaker 3: be able to display. We have the original song.
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  Speaker 4: Manuscript that Chris Stofferson wrote have helped me make it
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  Speaker 4: through the night. And if you could see he wrote
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  Speaker 4: it on the stationary of his publisher, Monument and Who's
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  Speaker 4: also his record label. And this was a very transformative
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  Speaker 4: song because he started to talk about real adult relationships
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  Speaker 4: sexuality to some extent in a way that country music
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  Speaker 4: hadn't gone to before.
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  Speaker 3: But he did it in a very poetic way. And
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  Speaker 3: of course it's become a standard. So I love walking
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  Speaker 3: past this and looking at this.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm trying to get people to come
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  Speaker 4: to Nashville, I will also say we are blessed with
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  Speaker 4: amazing forest parks all over in Nashville. And because I'm
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  Speaker 4: an outdoor guy, I mean loved to go to Radnor Lake,
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  Speaker 4: loved to go to a Warner Parks.
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  Speaker 3: But hey, can you let you some indoors please come
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  Speaker 3: to the Country Us A Call of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, there's always something new to check out here. I think, Well, Paul,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so.
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  Speaker 1: Much for being on taking a walk in Nashville today,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone can check out the Country Music Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame and Museum and the Muscle Sholes exhibit.
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  Speaker 2: For the next few years.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thank you, Sarah.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with singer
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  Speaker 4: songwriter Sarah Harrel Simmer, and check out our other podcasts, Music,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Save Me, Comedy, Save Me, and Taking a Walk.
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• 20:29
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