Luke Bryan’s – Meanderings & Mind Munchies

Rain and more rain. I swear Nashville is trying to drown us.

We met up with Greg’s sister Debbie and her husband Paul in the early afternoon to tour the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

The website says it takes 1 1/2 to 2 hours to complete a tour of the museum. I disagree.

I think it would take a minimum of 3 hours to do a reasonable tour. There is so much information, and it is very well presented.

Also, I should have paid the extra money for the audio tour. It’s impossible to gain an appreciation of music history, artists, and styles of music without actually hearing the music, and I’m not that familiar with country music, honky tonk, hillbilly, bluegrass, and rhythm and blues to know the difference between them.

RCA Studio B tour

Included with our admission was a tour of RCA Studio B, where Elvis Presley, Charlie Pride, and numerous other country music singers recorded their songs.

The building was not particularly impressive, but one would expect that from something built in the 1950s for $37,000.

Paul is standing on the X that marked the spot where the lead vocalist would stand because that spot was the most acoustically perfect spot in the room.

Bar hopping on Broadway

After our tour of Studio B, we walked over to Broadway to get something to eat and listen to some live music.

We started at Luke Bryan’s, where Greg and I had been a few days earlier.

Our next stop was the Whiskey River bar.

I was so tempted to get on the dance floor and try out my new line dancing skills, but I chickened out.

Our final stop for the evening was Ole Red, Blake Shelton’s bar. This was the first floor.

We ended up on the top floor, where a different band was playing.

Most of the bars on Broadway had a different band playing on each of their floors.

I get the impression that Nashville is a popular place for bachelorette parties. We saw a number of young brides-to-be during our bar hopping.

Broadway is loud and energetic at any time, but I think Saturdays must be particularly wild. Every bar was jammed, and every building had a rooftop bar that was packed.

On to Memphis!

The campground where we are staying right now is quite posh, so Greg and I decided to spend yesterday morning hanging around our campsite and soaking up the ambience.

Greg also unpacked the bikes and we took a couple of laps around the campground.

After lunch, we headed into Nashville to take a line dancing class. Based on the number of people from Ireland, Scotland, and Australia, tourism is alive and well in Nashville.