First day in Nashville which includes the whole reason for this trip, seeing Sarah at the Ryman Auditorium
Sarah concert number 66
1Nashville view from my hotel room window
2Union Station former railway terminal, now a hotel
3Bridgestone Arena
4Ryman Auditorium ... from the back
5Ryman Auditorium Hatch Show Print ... for tonights Sarah show
6Ryman Auditorium ... from the front
7Music City sign
8RCA Studio B More than 35,000 songs were recorded here, including more than 1,000 US hits, 40 million-selling singles, and over 200 Elvis Presley recordings
9RCA Studio B Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner
10RCA Studio B List of Elvis hits recorded here
11RCA Studio B a previously used mixing board
12RCA Studio B Former recording booth
13RCA Studio B Upright piano
14RCA Studio B with some of the recording equipment used in the Elvis era
15RCA Studio B Amps and microphones in Studio B
16RCA Studio B Studio B looking towards control room
17RCA Studio B reputedly the broken door of this cupbard was kicked in by Elvis
18RCA Studio B Microphone stands on the wall of Studio B
19Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
20Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition: Tammy's walk-in wardrobe from her Nashville home (although apparently smaller than the real thing!)
21Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition: Tammy's walk-in wardrobe from her Nashville home
22Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition: Tammy's walk-in wardrobe from her Nashville home
23Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
24Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
25Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
26Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
27Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Tammy Wynette exhibition
28Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Various Hatch Show Prints adorn the walls
29Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Webb Pierce's Pontiac Bonneville convertibles that he had lined with with silver dollars, with pistol door handles and hood ornament, horses, a rifle on the trunk, and steer horns on the front bumper.
30Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Webb Pierce's Silver Dollar Convertible with a rifle at the back ...
31Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Elvis Presley’s car. There are crushed up diamonds in that paint ...
32Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum ... and gold in the interior. Not OTT at all!
33Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Elvis Presley's Gold Piano. Liked showing off his wealth with a bit of Gold it seems!
34Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Lots and lots of gold country records
35Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Guitar autographed by performers and presenters from the Academy of Country Music Awards 2006, including Kelly Clarkson and Billy Ray Cyrus
36Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Early Dolly Parton dress
37Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Emmylou Harris guitar from her days with Gram Parsons
38Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Country goes mainstream ...
39Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum The Judds
40Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Mechanical bull from "Urban Cowboy"
41Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Miranda Lamberts shirt
42Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Handwritten lyrics for Miranda Lambert's "White Liar"
43Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Martina McBride's dress
44Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Garth Brooks' guitar
45Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Farm Aid stars
46Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Outside the piano shaped museum
47Hard Rock Cafe Guitar outside
48Hard Rock Cafe from the back on 1st Avenue
49 from the back on 1st Avenue
50Shelby Street Bridge one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world
51Tennessee Titans stadium
52River Boat on Cumberland River
53Fort Nashborough
54Fort Nashborough
55Fort Nashborough
56James Robertson and John Donelson Statue statue of the founders of Nashville
57Crossroads it's one way or the other
58AT&T building otherwise known as the Batman Building
59Church Street Park
60Emerge Artist-designed bicycle racks
61BB Kings Blues club
62Center for the Visual Arts located in the former Nashville Post office building
63Holiday Inn Express hotel for my first night in Nashville, as it was near to the Ryman :)
64Tennessee State Capitol
65House of Representatives House of Representatives
66House of Representatives fountain with James K. Polk State Office Building behind it
67House of Representatives
68Tennessee Supreme Court
69Squirrel what you looking at?!
70Tennessee State Library and Archives
71Charlotte Avenue
72Vital Records Division
73Tennessee State Capitol Statue of Sam Davis
74Tennessee State Capitol and Edward Ward Carmack statue
75Tennessee State Capitol
76Tennessee State Capitol Andrew Jackson Statue
77Tennessee State Capitol Liberty Bell
78Tennessee State Capitol Statue of Andrew Johnson
79Tennessee State Capitol Tomb of President and Mrs. James K. Polk
80Tennessee State Capitol
81Tennessee State Capitol and Andrew Jackson Statue
82Tennessee State Capitol Geodesic Survey Marker (1933): Benchmark to determine sea level, placed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers
83Tennessee State Capitol Views towards 6th Avenue
84Tennessee State Capitol
85Tennessee State Capitol Bicentennial Carillon Answer Bell
86Tennessee State Capitol
87Tennessee State Office Building
88views towards Bicentennial Mall State Park See the railway bridge about half way down, that's where we're off to ...
89Bicentennial Mall State Park ... and here we are!
90Bicentennial Mall State Park
91Bicentennial Mall State Park Former Tennessee Capitol columns
92Bicentennial Mall State Park the disks on the ground mark the ninety-five county time capsules along Sixth Avenue
93Bicentennial Mall State Park
94Bicentennial Mall State Park with views towards Tennessee State Capitol
95Bicentennial Mall State Park World War II Monument
96Bicentennial Mall State Park World War II Monument
97Bicentennial Mall State Park World War II Monument
98Bicentennial Mall State Park World War II Monument
99Bicentennial Mall State Park lovely sky over the park
100Bicentennial Mall State Park Court of 3 Stars with the ninety-five bell carillons
101Bicentennial Mall State Park Court of 3 Stars with the ninety-five bell carillons
102Bicentennial Mall State Park Court of 3 Stars with the ninety-five bell carillons
103Bicentennial Mall State Park Court of 3 Stars with the ninety-five bell carillons
104Bicentennial Mall State Park
105Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
106Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
107Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
108Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
109Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
110Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
111Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
112Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee History Wall
113Bicentennial Mall State Park World War II Monument
114Bicentennial Mall State Park
115Bicentennial Mall State Park views from back at the Tennessee State Capitol buidling
116Tennessee State Capitol as the sun begins to set ...
117Tennessee State Capitol
118Tennessee State Capitol
119Tennessee State Capitol
120Nashville sunset
121Nashville sunset
122Nashville sunset
123Ryman Auditorium getting ready for Sarah ... it was sold out so the empty seats indicate I was early yet again! ;)