Birthplace of Country Music Museum – Bristol TN/VA
Read about our visit to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum The Birthplace of Country Music Museum opened in Bristol TN/VA last August. The $10.5 million museum was built in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution and is a project years in the making for the small town of Bristol which straddles the border between Tennessee and Virginia. The grand opening weekend featured a number of special events, including a ribbon cutting...
Bristol VA and TN
Read about our music travels to Bristol Virginia/Tennessee Tuesday October 7 2014 First up, I’ve always wondered about the references to Bristol sometimes including Virginia (VA) and other times Tennessee (TN), and sometimes both. Well, that’s because the State line runs right through the main street of Bristol which is fittingly called State Street. I would’ve thought that’d be confusing, different State...
Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Read about the just opened Birthplace of Country Music Museum The Birthplace of Country Music Museum has just opened in Bristol Tennessee. While Nashville might have a little more clout when it comes to the country music crown, Bristol earned its place in history in the early twentieth century, when famed acts like The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers recorded an influential catalogue of songs now known as “the 1927 Bristol...