Nashville Oasis

20/08/2023

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08/08/2023

06/07/2023

🚂Check out our Fall excursion lineup at TCRY.org🚂

From Wine Tastings to Train Robbery Excursions we have something for everyone! 🛍️🍻🚂🎅🎵🍷🇺🇸

06/07/2023

Sixty-seven-year-old John Lawrence Burns, a veteran of the War of 1812, volunteered for service with the U.S. Army at the outset of the American Civil War. He was rejected because of his advanced age. Instead, he served as a constable in his hometown of Gettysburg, PA. When the war arrived on his doorstep in July 1863, he picked up his flintlock musket and powder horn and walked out to the battlefield. Encountering a wounded soldier, he asked if he could use his more modern rifle. With the Enfield in hand and his pockets full of cartridges, Burns moved toward the line of battle.

Maj. Thomas Chamberlain of the 150th Pennsylvania was confused when an old man wearing dark trousers, a blue swallowtail coat, a yellow vest, and a black silk top hat asked permission to join the fight. He sent him to the woods where trees and brush might shield him somewhat from enemy fire. Burns fought alongside the men of the famous Iron Brigade, serving as a sharpshooter. He received wounds in the arm and leg, as well as several minor ones in the chest. As U.S. soldiers pulled back, they were forced to leave him behind on the field. Knowing that he could be executed for serving as a bushwhacker, he crawled away from his rifle and buried his ammunition. He convinced the Confederates he was out seeking help for his sick wife, and their surgeons even dressed his wounds.

Later, word of his participation in the battle spread. Matthew Brady sent a photographer to take his picture. And when President Abraham Lincoln came to Gettysburg to dedicate the National Cemetery and deliver his address, he requested to meet Burns. The two of them walked to church together. Upon his death in 1872, John Burns was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg. His is one of only two graves there with permission to fly the American flag twenty-four hours per day.

04/07/2023

04/07/2023

The next time you are searching for the best day trips in Tennessee, we hope this list of fun adventures comes to mind.

04/07/2023

Happy Independence Day Eve😎🇺🇸! Check out our shows coming up this week and comment on which one you are most excited for👀

👉🏻7/3 Reverend Horton Heat w/ Jane Rose & The Deadens
👉🏻7/5 Stella Prince and Mckay
👉🏻7/5 Chris Knight with Mando Zaez
👉🏻7/6 J2B2 (John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band
👉🏻7/7 Music First Producions Inc - Mixtape 80’s Tribute Band
👉🏻7/8 Michael Higgins with Garret Newman
👉🏻7/8 Eric Roberson ⚠️Low Ticket Alert⚠️ (In photo)
👉🏻7/9 Clare Cunningham - Album Release Show “Helping Hand”
👉🏻7/9 Eric Roberson ⚠️Low Ticket Alert⚠️

Tickets are sold here: https://bit.ly/3Omq88d

04/07/2023

The award-winning quartet will be present for the event emanating from the Grand Ole Opry on Sept. 28 and airing on NBC and Peacock

04/07/2023

04/07/2023

Come and live the life of luxury just like our founder's grandfather did! From pre-1900 cocktail books to expertly crafted cocktails, Red Phone Booth brings you the classic Prohibition experience with a modern twist. Get ready for a luxurious night of fun, fine ci**rs, and delightful whiskey!

04/07/2023

27/06/2023

27/06/2023

Sixteen stools line our old-school counter. Sixteen stools ready to meet hungry diners. Sixteen stools waiting to host your milkshake cravings.

27/06/2023

Few instrumentalists, singers, and songwriters have left a more distinct mark on bluegrass music than Jesse McReynolds, who died June 23 at age ninety-three.

Born July 9, 1929, in Carfax, Virginia, McReynolds was one half of the duo Jim & Jesse, playing mandolin and singing alongside his older brother, Jim McReynolds (1927-2002). For more than fifty years, the brothers were a beacon of showmanship, peerless playing, and innovation in bluegrass music, finding chart success with sides such as “Diesel on My Tail” and “Cotton Mill Man.”

Their songs were fueled by inimitable sibling harmony—with McReynolds’s brother’s high tenor soaring above his sturdy melody line. It was McReynolds's playing style, too, that set the act apart from their peers.

Inspired by bluegrass trailblazer Earl Scruggs, McReynolds developed a distinctive and influential cross-picking technique on the mandolin—a slight inversion of the three-finger style Scruggs popularized on the banjo. Whereas banjo players would employ three picks, McReynolds just used one.

“Yeah, I do everything the hard way,” he joked in an interview on the TV program “Ronnie Reno’s Old Time Music.”

Raised in a musically rich region of southern Appalachia, the siblings began performing locally as the McReynolds Brothers in the 1940s, soon moving to several radio stations in the Southeast and Midwest. They made their first recordings (as the Virginia Trio) for Kentucky Records in 1951, and signed with Capitol the following year.

Then known as Jim & Jesse and the Virginia Boys, the act made frequent rounds on radio barn dances, and soon launched their own television programs in local markets throughout the Southeast, getting a boost after sponsor Martha White Foods signed on in 1960.

1964 was a pivotal year for Jim & Jesse: the duo became members of the Grand Ole Opry, where they’d remain fixtures for the rest of their career. Now recording for Epic, they also scored their first country chart hit with “Cotton Mill Man.” Still, the next few years saw the brothers remain more popular as performers than recording artists.

Under pressure from Epic to lean harder into the popular sounds of mainstream country, Jim & Jesse earned the biggest hit of their career with the Billy Sherrill-produced trucker song “Diesel on My Tail,” which reached #18 on the country charts in 1967.

But even at the peak of their commercial success, the duo was drawn to experimentation and moving against the grain. There may be no greater example of that spirit than their 1965 album "Berry Pickin’ in the Country."

A collection of bluegrass renditions of songs by rock & roll architect Chuck Berry, the album found McReynolds interpreting the opening guitar licks of “Johnny B. Goode” on his mandolin, illuminating the ties that bind country, rock, blues, and bluegrass. When the duo launched a syndicated TV show in the mid-sixties, electric and steel guitar had become part of their sound.

McReynolds’s dizzying technique didn’t just draw in audiences at the Opry and Newport Folk Festival. It ignited the imaginations of musicians in a wide variety of genres, including the Doors, who invited him to play mandolin on their 1969 album “The Soft Parade.”

Years after Jerry Garcia’s passing, McReynolds learned that Jim & Jesse were a favorite of the Grateful Dead frontman. (McReynolds later honored him with a 2010 tribute album, “Songs of the Grateful Dead.” He was eighty-one years old at the time.)

After forming their own label, Old Dominion Records, in the 1970s, McReynolds and his brother returned to their acoustic roots. They continued to record and perform for the next thirty years, settling into their status as one of the most influential and widely respected first-generation acts in bluegrass. They were inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Fame in 1993.

Following his brother’s death in 2002, McReynolds continued to record and tour as Jesse McReynolds & the Virginia Boys. In 2019, he celebrated his fifty-fifth anniversary as an Opry member, singing and picking on its famous stage alongside twenty-first century admirers such as Ketch Secor and Charlie Worsham. The Opry crowd that night gave him a standing ovation, as they’d done many times before.

“I can’t play as fast and as accurate as I used to, but that happens as you get older,” he said in an interview with the Opry that same year.

“I guess I put myself down a lot of times, too much. I say, ‘Well, I can’t play like I used to, and maybe I should give it up. But that’s something that . . . I’ll never give it up.”

27/06/2023

Here are some shows to look forward to coming up this week!👀

🎸6/26 Child’s Anthem-The Music of Toto
🎸6/29 Raydio FT. Arnell Carmichael - Soulful Nights Live!
🎸6/30 Nashville Improv Company Presents Your Musical
🎸7/1 Briana Calhoun & Friends
🎸7/1 An Evening With David Cook
🎸7/2 Red Wine & Blue - Food & Wine Pairing Experience
🎸7/2 Souls of Mischief - 30 Years of 93 ‘Til (Pictured)

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27/06/2023

Patsy kept some great company ⭐ Tom "Cat" Reeder, Patsy and Darrell McCall backstage WSM Studios.

27/06/2023

25/06/2023

A boat ride on the river hits different in the summertime 😎

25/06/2023

25/06/2023

No plans this weekend?🤔 We’ve got you covered😎 Check out our upcoming shows this weekend:

6/23 City of Laughs Ft. Ambrose Jones, J.Mcnutt, Teresa Morrison
6/24 Billy Joel Tribute The Stranger Featuring Mike Santoro
6/25 Nashville Beatles Brunch FT: John Salaway & Friends
6/25 4Runner
6/25 Zoso The Ultimate Led Zepplin Experience

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22/06/2023

Look, Listen, Live ⚠️

22/06/2023

Come on in to Red Phone Booth and take a trip back in time! Try one of our classic cocktails, such as the Horse's Neck, Clover Club or Smoked Old Fashioned. You won't be disappointed! Comment below with your favorite 👇

21/06/2023