Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on her experience in Nashville

BloggerAtLarge.com writer Megan Singleton's been exploring Nashville and taking in the city's history.

She got to go to the Grand Ole Opry and listen to the Oakridge Boys singing Elvira - as well as take some studio tours.

Read more about Megan's experience here.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News TALKSTB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is time to talk travel and I'm joined now
by Meghan Singleton, blogger at large dot com. Good morning, Megan, Oh,
good morning. You cannot listen to that song without smiling. Honestly,
this was a bit of a highlight on your latest
trist to Nashville. Such a highlight. So the highlight, honestly

(00:33):
for the whole national trip was being at the Grand
Old Opry when the Oakridge Boys came on the stage
three of their original band members aged eighty seven, eighty three,
and eighty two, and they belted out Alvira and those
who know this song will know that there's a really
deep baritone and he's still got it. I mean, oh,

(00:54):
it was the best. My father would have loved it,
and yeah, so a little bit old school country. Also
that very night was Old Crow Medicine Show. I had
never heard of them, but they co wrote wagon Wheel
with Bob Dylan in nineteen seventy three. I did not. Yeah,
so no, it was such a highlight. You really can't

(01:15):
visit Nashville without going to the Grand Ole Opry with
apologies to my mother who will be listening, because I
brought her to Nashville in twenty thirteen and we did
not see the Grand Ole Opry and that was remiss
of me. But there are some other fantastic things to
do in Nashville. It's really been a city that has
surprised me in a great way over the last few

(01:35):
visits I've come to. And another really cool thing to
do is on a Saturday. Only on a Saturday, you
can go to Backstage Nashville, which is a show that
runs on an over lunchtime and it's with the writers
who've written so many of the hits. So they get
up on stage, they tell you about how they've written
the song, what it's about, who sang it, and how

(01:57):
it was recorded, kind of like how much money to
kind of imply how much money they made from it,
and then they play these hits that you're like, oh
my gosh, you wrote that and it's great. And so
you have a bit of lunch, you get a burger
and fries, and you listen to them entertain you for
a couple of hours. And that is so with going
to as well as only on one day a week,
so I've put that on the blog post on Nashville

(02:18):
so people can look that one up as well.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Also, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Obviously in Nashville, music is going to be the center
of quite a lot of the things that you do.
But you did it.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Sounds like you really did kind of get around a
little bit with a studio, tours and various other things.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, look, it's really walkable. I would suggest you stayed downtown.
Downtown Nashville and Broadway is where people where all the
bars are. Now it's very touristy, but we are tourists, right,
But if you want a local experience, you're going to
go out into more of the suburbs. But it's really walkable.
So you've got the Johnny Cash Museum, you've got the
Country Music Hall of Fame. You've got the studio b tour,

(02:53):
which takes you in a bus out to where it's
still they still use it as a recording studio where Elvis.
You sat at the Steinway that Elvis played his tracks
at in some one of the songs he got them
to switch all the lights off that he wanted is
it was after midnight when you're still doing His band
is still recording. He wanted them to play in the
dark for this. I forget if it was love Me
Tendril was one of those songs, and they only had

(03:15):
Wonder Where's or You made them all play in the dark.
And it's such a cool tour because the guy talks
you through that, he turns the lights off, he plays Elvis.
You're sitting there in front of that Steinway. It's epic. Yeah,
that's definitely something to add to the tour. How many
days have you had on this particular Tripville? We got
well in Nashville four days and I'm at the end

(03:36):
of it now. Yeah, four days is enough. I think
four days is enough. I did three days last time.
I felt that wasn't quite enough. I think if you're
going to do the opry. We toured the Ryman Auditorium,
which is another It was where your opry originally started.
It's right in town and that's well worth visiting. There's
a little bit of shopping. There's cowgirl boots to buy,
and there's so many bars. You've got kid Rock, You've

(03:58):
got Morgan Wallen, You've got if all the bars lined
up there to go to. Just just listen to the music,
follow your ears and have a beer wherever you like
this sound really, I love it, Megan.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Travel safe. We look forward to catching up with you
when you get back. For more from the Sunday session
with Francesca Rudgin, listen live to News Talks it B
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