Randy Travis turns out to be Trace Adkins......because I don't know "jack"! DUH!
Anyway, Trace Adkins is for tomorrow night; not Randy Travis.
We just returned from tonight's Opry. The 7 pm show was 2 1/2 hrs long with about 45 minutes of commercials!
The music was really good. The performers were mostly old timers. One was 89 years old...Little Jimmy Dickens...they call him LITTLE Jimmy Dickens. He IS that! He put on a good performance...hard to believe his age. He told some funny, silly jokes too.
At first we were very annoyed when the deep voiced MC/announcer, Eddie Stubbs spoke a commercial every 10 minutes. We couldn't believe we paid this kind of money for a show & it had commercials!!! Well, no one ever told us a & we never read nor realized that what we were seeing was a live radio show. Of course it would have commercials.
Here's a link about announcer Eddie Stubbs as well as getting a peek @ Little Jimmy Dickens; yup, he's t he 89 yr old. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_LczoT414
BTW, since the May 2010 Nashville flood the venue for the Opry was unable to be in their own building until repaired. Their own building was only reopened Sept 28 2010 to a star studded show with some names I actually have heard of.
http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=13233167 This link also has some videos & photos about the Opry, the flood, etc
Nashville is still in the midst of major repairs left over from the flood. It's really sad & difficult to imagine what so many went through. Near the Grand Ole Opry is a HUGE outlet mall that includes an IMAX Theatre & Borders Book Store among it's many shops & it's still totally closed down for flood repairs. It and it's parking lots are completely fenced in by chain-link fencing that seems to go on and on and on.
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