Kenny Price made occasional appearances ( starting in 1974 ) as their son Elrod ; and Wendy Suits of the show's background singing group, The Nashville Edition, would sometimes play Ida Lee's equally nagging mother.

" Say, Brothers " from Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Round Note Edition, Nashville, TN ( 1889, reprinted 1903 ).

Diffie then built a recording studio, began touring with Special Edition in adjacent states, and sent demo recordings to publishers in Nashville.

The top two finishing finalists on the 2007 season of country-music singing competition Nashville Star, siblings Zac Hacker ( second place ) and Angela Hacker ( winner ), are from Muscle Shoals.

Delius's familiarity with " black " music possibly predates his American adventures ; during the 1870s a popular singing group, the Fisk Jubilee Singers from Nashville, Tennessee, toured Britain and Europe, giving several well-received concerts in Bradford.

Mae took her to sing in Nashville, Tennessee, where she performed at the Ralph Emery Show, singing Juice Newton's " Queen of Hearts " and Tammy Wynette's " Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad ".

After managing an animal show at Nashville ’ s Opryland, Wallace moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in singing and songwriting.

In 2003, Jewell competed in the first season of the television singing competition Nashville Star.

On August 2009 he appears in Levon Helm Ramble At The Ryman singing The Weight in the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

On October 30, 2002, the reality TV singing competition American Idol held auditions in Nashville, Tennessee for the show's second season.

In 1965, she and Ritter moved to Nashville, because of his singing and recording career.

Located a few miles northeast of Nashville, it is the burial site of Johnny Cash as well as several members of the singing Carter Family and other stars from the country music world.

Carl Perkins, singing " Blue Suede Shoes ", made his TV debut on the series, which showcased hundreds of popular artists performing everything from rockabilly, country and Western, bluegrass and honky tonk to the Nashville sound, gospel and folk.

He has also made an appearance in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Conference, He has also made an appearance in Nashville, Tennessee in June, 2008 on Broadway for the CMA Music Festival and he also made an appearance on January 25, 2009 he performed at a Leinster Rugby game in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland, singing his theme song " I'm the Naked Cowboy " before 18, 000 spectators.

Shelton is also known for his role as a judge on the televised singing competitions Nashville Star, Clash of the Choirs, and The Voice, having held his role on the latter for 3 seasons.

At age 17, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in pursuit of a singing career.

While singing at this venue, he came to the attention of country singers Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare, who encouraged the young singer to fly up to the country music capital Nashville, Tennessee in 1971.

After playing and singing with his musically-gifted family for a few years, he decided to move where the bigger action was — Nashville, Tennessee.

The recording comes from a singing in Nashville, Tennessee.

Meanwhile, after someone sent a song of her singing to producer Byron Gallimore, Andrews signed with DreamWorks Records Nashville and soon began working on her first album.

During the early 1960s, Ray Walker, Neal Matthews, Hoyt Hawkins, and Gordon Stoker helped mold the genre of Country Music known as " The Nashville Sound ", singing backup harmonies to such artists as Patsy Cline and Jim Reeves.

In 1975, Harris appeared in one of her signature film roles in Robert Altman's masterpiece Nashville, playing " Albuquerque ", a ditzy, scantily clad country singing hopeful who may be far more opportunistic and calculating than she would first appear.

Moore, born in Nashville, Tennessee, made his commercial recording debut inadvertently at age seven, an overdub session his father — legendary Music City session musician Bob Moore ( not Elvis guitarist Scotty Moore, as many articles mistakenly claim ) — set up, singing a duet with Jim Reeves entitled " But You Love Me, Daddy " in 1959.

During the 1960s, Ray experimented increasingly with the so-called Nashville sound, singing slow ballads and utilizing lush arrangements of strings and backing singers.

He would later land a job in Nashville singing demos for other songwriters and publishing companies.

Chris Young ( born 1985 ) is an American country music singer and 2006 winner on the television singing competition Nashville Star

The group relocated to Nashville in mid-1950.

However, as recording plans were made, Parsons exerted a controlling influence over the group, persuading the other members to leave Los Angeles and record the album in Nashville, Tennessee.

In 1993, Mullins assembled a group of Nashville musicians ( including Jimmy Abegg, Beaker, Billy Crockett, Phil Madeira, Rick Elias, and Aaron Smith ) to form A Ragamuffin Band, whose name was inspired by the Christian book The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning.

The Moody Bluegrass project is a group of Nashville artists who have recorded an album of 12 Moody Blues songs in the Bluegrass style, under the title Moody Bluegrass – A Nashville Tribute to the Moody Blues.

The reunion group featured an expanded lineup that included Mel Owens ( in Brigati's place ) on vocals and percussion, Steve Mackey on bass, Ed Mattey on guitar, Dena Iverson on backup vocals and a horn section from Nashville to beef up the sound.

The group was formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 1964 when Bill Justis ( best known for his hit " Raunchy ") became their manager and formed Buckhorn Music with the help of Wilkin's mother, Marijohn Wilkin, a country music writer.

The producers relied on a small group of studio musicians known as the Nashville A-Team, whose quick adaptability and creative input made them vital to the hit-making process.

Lee joined the cult band, Root Boy Slim & His Sex Change Band, then settled in Washington DC for some time, where he worked with local group Johnny Bombay & the Hurricanes before moving to Nashville, Tennessee, until his return to Australia in the late 1990s, he died in July 1999.

* On the international stage Aztek Escobar based in Houston, Colombian Party Cartel based in Nashville, Tres Coronas based in New York, Adassa based in Miami and 3 of the seven-man group of Culcha Candela in Berlin, Germany are representing Colombian urban music worldwide.

In February 2012, the group was called on short notice to replace an ailing Marvin Hamlisch at a concert with the Nashville Symphony.

In 1955, a group of ministers led by Bishops C. B. Gillespie ( Fairmont, WV ), Ray Cornell ( Cleveland, Ohio ), and Carl Angle ( Nashville, Tennessee ) rechartered the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ ( PAJC ) using the original charter.

The Southern Agrarians ( also known as the Twelve Southerners, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, the Nashville Agrarians, the Tennessee Agrarians, or the Fugitive Agrarians ) were a group of twelve American writers, poets, essayists, and novelists, all with roots in the South, who joined together to write a pro-Southern agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays published in 1930 entitled I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.

He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville, Tennessee circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.

Holy Hip Hop group GRITS is from Nashville.

The largest stations in the group deal included KTRH Houston, KFYI Phoenix, WPGB Pittsburgh, WKRC Cincinnati, WOOD Grand Rapids, WFLA Tampa, WOAI San Antonio, WLAC Nashville, and WREC Memphis.

Next, the group traveled to a studio located outside of Nashville, Tennessee.

During April 1992, they were the unwitting subject of one of George H. W. Bush's malapropisms when he referred to the group as the " Nitty Ditty Nitty Gritty Great Bird " at a country music awards ceremony in Nashville:

On July 31, 1964, Reeves and his business partner and manager Dean Manuel ( also the pianist of Reeves ' backing group, the Blue Boys ) left Batesville, Arkansas, en route to Nashville in a single-engine Beechcraft Debonair aircraft, with Reeves at the controls.

The group debuted a handful of new tracks on March 11, 2009 in Nashville from their debut album Horehound, which came out July 13, 2009 in Europe and July 14, 2009 in North America, on White's Third Man Records label.

Venus Hum is an electronic pop music group from Nashville, Tennessee, consisting of vocalist Annette Strean and multi-instrumentalists Kip Kubin and Tony Miracle.

Based on this success, the group was invited to Nashville, Tennessee where they achieved the singular distinction of becoming the first black female singers to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.