tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post7818237590521859721..comments2024-03-18T21:29:19.210-04:00Comments on Fayfare's Opry Blog: Recap of Last Weekend at the Opryfayfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00173166778978335059noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-18053511621507490812014-12-16T23:12:10.202-05:002014-12-16T23:12:10.202-05:00Fully enjoyed your Nashville recap, Byron. Thank ...Fully enjoyed your Nashville recap, Byron. Thank you for posting all the great photo's on Facebook as well. I thoroughly enjoyed all three shows. I really dig Kacey Musgraves & I can add Amber Digby to my list of favorites. There certainly is much more to country music than what we are forced fed on FM country radio, we just don't know about it, but that's the great thing about the Opry, we are introduced to artists we'd otherwise not learn about if we had to rely on our local country music stations. <br /><br />As always, I loved hearing Craig Morgan - that guy has such a powerful voice & has recorded some great music. I also enjoyed Minton Sparks. I will have to research who she is. I have never heard of her but I liked what she had to offer. Of course, I really enjoyed Joe Diffie's segment as well as Dierks Bentley, I'm a big fan of both. And then there's Marty Stuart - he always lights it up. When he said that the audience needed a Gospel song after drinking, I just laughed, but lay one on us he did. "Boogie Woogie Down the Jericho Road." And he is named after Marty Robbins & in true fashion, has more or less picked up where Marty Robbins left off - Marty Stuart will take an Opry show well past the time that I'm sure he's supposed to. Good for him. <br /><br />Sad that the two women from North Dakota that you were speaking with did not stay for the entire Opry show, Bryon. They must have thought that the Opry show was a concert. I would have happily taken one of their seats. <br /><br />The one person I got used to hearing these last 10 or so weeks, wasn't on this weekend - Mike Snider. <br /><br />(Jeanene)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-74905053462169594322014-12-16T18:19:12.508-05:002014-12-16T18:19:12.508-05:00Wonderful review of the weekend.
Thanks so much, B...Wonderful review of the weekend.<br />Thanks so much, Byron.<br />Totally agree with your statement that "there is always something magical about seeing the Opry at the Ryman."<br />I have to tell you that many of the segments you describe with obvious appreciation for the performances, came across as rather flat on the radio (or Internet).<br />Again, THANKS!Nat Hill IVnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-7060595949409731512014-12-16T00:57:35.825-05:002014-12-16T00:57:35.825-05:00GREAT roundup, Byron. Thanks.
One of the things t...GREAT roundup, Byron. Thanks.<br /><br />One of the things that always annoyed me about the GAC Opry is that it was so scripted. But then I remembered some history. The Prince Albert Show was, too--in fact, you can find some of the scripts online. Minnie Pearl said in her autobiography that the ad agency sent in writers to do material for her and Rod Brasfield and it didn't work because they didn't know the audience. One line she mentioned was that something "would take the Hart out of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx." Well, that was an eastern clothier, and the Prince Albert segment was only broadcast in the South. But still, that segment was very close to what the rest of the Opry was like. I much preferred the days when TNN basically rolled in the cameras for a segment and you saw what really went on. I'm reminded of one night when Mr. Acuff was about to make an introduction and Vic Gabany walked by and told him they'd changed the order, and Mr. Acuff just stopped and glared at the side of the stage--or the night then-Vice President George Bush was on and Mr. Acuff brought him on before he was supposed to, and explained at the end that it was his segment and that was that!<br /><br />A note on hosting. I noticed that, in his later years, Jimmy C. Newman almost never hosted. I wondered if it was because he occasionally had adventures in English. He once told my mother that he still thought in Cajun French and had to translate it. Then again, when I think of some of Mr. Acuff's and Grandpa Jones's wanderings and musings ....<br /><br />Jean Shepard is #3 behind Herman and Lewis Crook for longest tenure. Next to her in seniority among the current membership is Bill Anderson, since he has been on for 53 1/2 years without a break--and he's ONLY 77. Stonewall Jackson is at about the same length, but was off from 1964 to 1969, and of course The Potato is another matter entirely. I hope Jean is ok. I know she'd had some medical problems before.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998867386294693956noreply@blogger.com