March 14, 2022, 10:45 PM
TMatsWhy the Earnest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville Mattered:
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News that country music fans had long dreaded arrived this week: The Ernest Tubb Record Shop, a fixture of Nashville since 1947 and a mainstay in its current Lower Broad location since 1951, will be closing some time this spring, according to owners who purchased the iconic business and building two years ago. The store was famous not only as a very old-school physical media mecca, but for hosting performances on its rear stage for the “Midnite Jamboree” program by the likes of Loretta Lynn or even a nascent Elvis Presley.
Writer Matt Powell, who began working at the store in 1999 and was its manager from 2001-2005, penned an eloquent appreciation of the shop that Variety is sharing here:
An Appreciation of the Country Music MeccaMarch 15, 2022, 08:16 PM
wingfootThanks for posting it was nice read. My wife and I were talking about visiting Nashville this year, might as well get on up there and check this store out before it closes.
March 15, 2022, 10:27 PM
bendableBetween Dolly, Marty Stewart and Garth,
You'd think they could have acquired it and figured out a way to preserve it in some way.
Iam guessing it will be another bar, because there are so few on that strip