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Carter Family The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, features a modern curved facade, tall windows, and a tower, with a grassy lawn and benches in front. The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, a large red brick building with arched windows and white trim, known as the former home of the Grand Ole Opry. Minnie Pearl and Hank Snow Country singer Roy Acuff plays with a yo-yo on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, while a man in work clothes bends down to watch. The Carter Family performs on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1951, with Maybelle Carter on guitar, Helen Carter on accordion, and June Carter Cash and Anita Carter singing at a microphone. Hank Williams performs with the Drifting Cowboys on stage at the Grand Ole Opry in 1951, with a microphone labeled WSM Grand Ole Opry and a backdrop reading Joe's Place. Marty Robbins stands at a microphone playing guitar and singing on stage with band members at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1950s. Earl Scruggs, left, plays banjo and Lester Flatt, right, plays guitar as they perform with The Foggy Mountain Boys at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee around 1960. Loretta Lynn sings and plays guitar on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, her name visible on the guitar strap, in a black and white photo from the early 1960s.
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Carter Family
One of most important pioneering acts of early country music was the Carter Family,...
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened on Nashville's Music Row in 1967....
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Ryman Auditorium
The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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Minnie Pearl and Hank Snow
Comedian Minnie Pearl with country music singer and songwriter Hank Snow on stage...
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Roy Acuff
Country music singer Roy Acuff playing with his yo-yo on stage at the Grand Old...
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Carter Family
The Carter Family (Maybelle Carter on guitar, Helen Carter on accordion, Ernie Newton...
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Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys
Country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams performing with the Drifting Cowboys...
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Marty Robbins
Country singer Marty Robbins performing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,...
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Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys
Earl Scruggs (left) and Lester Flatt (right) performing with the Foggy Mountain Boys...
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Loretta Lynn
Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn performing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,...
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Merle Haggard
Singer and songwriter Merle Haggard (left) performing with singer Bonnie Owens (his...
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Johnny Cash and Maybelle Carter
Country music stars, including Johnny Cash (right) and Maybelle Carter (left), performing...
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Richard Nixon and Roy Acuff
U.S. Pres. Richard Nixon holding hands with Roy Acuff and playing with a yo-yo during...
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The Grand Ole Opry in the 1970s.
The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in the 1970s.
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Grand Ole Opry House
The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.
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Grand Ole Opry
Country singer Little Jimmy Dickens performing during a taping of the Grand Ole...
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Charley Pride
Country singer Charley Pride performing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,...
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Brad Paisley
Country music singer Brad Paisley performing at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville,...
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Bill Monroe
Mandolin player and singer Bill Monroe created bluegrass in the 1940s. The music...
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The Hillbilly Shakespeare
Hank Williams was arguably country music's first superstar, with huge crossover success...
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Patsy Cline, c. 1956
Singer Patsy Cline had an exceptional contralto voice that lent itself to classic...
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Queens of country music
Lynn Anderson (left), Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, and Tammy Wynette...
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Emmylou Harris
After starting out in folk music, Emmylou Harris contributed vocals to country-rock...
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Country superstars
Garth Brooks (left) and Ty England (right) performing with George Jones (center)...
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Taylor Swift and the Opry Circle
American country and pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift performing at the Grand Ole...
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