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Grand Ole Opry

[ grand ohl op-ree ]

noun

  1. a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.


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Ahead of the album’s release, he dropped six singles including “Sober” — in which the Grand Ole Opry member speaks about his struggle with sobriety in an industry that he said “glorifies drinking and other kinds of debauchery.”

That would include Linda Martell, the first Black woman to play the Grand Ole Opry, who said she left country in 1974 because she was sidelined in favor of white artists.

When I was 5 years old, I told my parents, “I’m gonna sing on the Grand Ole Opry one day.”

I’ve been a member of the Grand Ole Opry for three years, so I got this Grand Ole Opry stamp.

“Shaking his hand when I was still in the Army backstage at the Grand Ole Opry was the moment I’d decided I’d come back,” Kristofferson said.

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