There is not a single venue more uniquely tied to Country Music than the Ryman Auditorium, and its intimate relationship with the Grand Ole Opry that was recorded there for decades on radio.
Those broadcasts helped inform music fans of the American music coming out of the segregated south, though written and performed by people of all walks and all backgrounds.
Country was and is a beautiful combo of folk, blues, and gospel. So it’s no surprise that a church would be its spiritual center.
The Ryman’s beginnings might sound like a Tall Tale or a myth, but it’s all true. Way back in the late 1800s, a wealthy Nashville businessman named Capt. Thomas G. Ryman was making a fortune from his fleet of 35 riverboats, saloons, and gambling halls.
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