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  Bengals fan adorns Nashville statues with Bengals gear ahead of playoff game vs. Titans

  Bengals fans in Nashville dressed several statues around town in Bengals gear Thursday morning ahead of their playoff matchup against the Titans.

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  Marietta Daily Journal, Ga.

  Wildman's owner Dent Myers dies

  Jan. 17—Dent Myers, the man behind Wildman's Civil War Surplus, a controversial store in downtown Kennesaw that sold Confederate memorabilia, died Sunday morning. He was 90. His death was confirmed to the MDJ by longtime friend Marjorie Lyon. Ever since Wildman's opening more than 40 years ago, the store has sold Confederate antiques and books, items that caricature African Americans, ...

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  Variety

  Jeannie Seely, a Reigning Queen of Old-School Country, Has One Word for the Grand Ole Opry: ‘Yes’

  This is part of a series of articles commemorating the Grand Ole Opry’s 5000th weekly broadcast, which takes place Saturday, Oct. 30 on WSM and Circle TV, live from Nashville’s Opry House. Jeannie Seely is living proof that, in country music circles, it’s possible to get hipper as you get older. At 81, she has […]

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  The Tribune-Star, Terre Haute, Ind.

  Mark Bennett: With a soul full of music, Terre Haute's Marc Rogers looks back in new memoir

  Oct. 1—One by one Saturday night, musical friends from Marc Rogers' past and present joined him and his family band onstage. Those musicians and more of Rogers' relatives and friends came to the banquet hall inside Rick's Smokehouse & Grill on Wabash Avenue to celebrate the release of Rogers' new autobiography, "Life With My Guitar: A Musician's Memoir." The show's format fit the book. Its 161 ...

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  Charlotte Observer

  Loretta Lynn becomes first woman to get statue outside famed Grand Ole Opry venue

  Country music icon Loretta Lynn became just the third person — and first woman — to earn a statue outside the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The statue was unveiled Tuesday, just over 60 years after Lynn’s first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. Statues of Bill Monroe and Little Jimmy Dickens were unveiled outside the Ryman in 2017.

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  USA TODAY

  Need a crash course in country music history? Here's 100 years of trivia

  From 1919 to 2019, here are 100 fast facts of country music trivia.

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  Pitchfork

  Listen to Bill Withers’ First New Song in 32 Years

  His tribute to Little Jimmy Dickens is his first new solo song since he retired in 1985

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  Rolling Stone

  Opry Movie to Star Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Brad Paisley

  The Grand Ole Opry, which officially turns 90 years old in November, has a number of special events planned in the months before and after the longest running live radio show in American history reaches that milestone. One of the biggest will no doubt be the documentary concert film which...

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  Influential pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons dies at 78

  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Influential pedal steel guitarist Buddy Emmons, who recorded with country music greats and toured as a bass player for Roger Miller, has died at age 78, the Nashville Musicians Association said on Thursday. "In terms of pushing the boundaries of the steel guitar, he was like Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar," said Dave Pomeroy, president of the association. Emmons arrived in Nashville in 1955 to play with Little Jimmy Dickens' Country Boys, t

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  Rolling Stone

  Watch Brad Paisley's Moving Performance at Little Jimmy Dickens' Memorial

  Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill weren't the only stars who literally sang the praises of the late Jimmy Dickens Thursday afternoon, during a memorial service held at the Grand Ole Opry house. Brad Paisley, Dickens' fishing buddy and longtime friend, pulled double-duty as host and performer, setting the tone for an...

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