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Mark Capps (December 14, 1968 – January 5, 2023) was an American sound engineer and music producer from Nashville, Tennessee. [1] He shared the Grammy Award for Best Polka Album in 2005, 2006, and 2007 for engineering albums by Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra. [2] Capps was part of a well-established musical family in Nashville.
The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, similar to their West Coast counterpart who became known (after the fact) as the Wrecking Crew. Some members of the Nashville A-Team were also subsequently or previously members of the ...
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On Jan. 5, 2023, three Nashville SWAT officers responded to Capps' home in Hermitage in an attempt to serve an arrest warrant after Capps had spiraled the night before and mixed medication and ...
Byrd was born in Nashville, Tennessee and learned to play the guitar at 10 and appeared on radio playing with local bands whilst still in his teens. At the age of 18 he joined the house band at Nashville's WSM Grand Ole Opry and then worked with Herold Goodman and the Tennessee Valley Boys and Wally Fowler and his Georgia Clodhoppers before and after serving in World War II.
In May 2010, the Opry House was flooded, along with much of Nashville, when the Cumberland River overflowed its banks. Repairs were made, and the Opry itself remained uninterrupted. Over the course of the summer of 2010, the broadcast temporarily originated from alternate venues in Nashville, with Ryman Auditorium hosting the majority of the shows.
Excluding the Opry Square Dancers, who have sui generis membership status, there are currently 75 Grand Ole Opry members. Solo music artists make up 61 of the members, seven of whom have mostly retired from performing (Stu Phillips, Barbara Mandrell, Jeanne Pruett, Randy Travis, Ricky Van Shelton, Patty Loveless and Ronnie Milsap), but may make occasional appearances.
[60] [61] In 1985, she opened up a Nashville nightclub named "Jeannie Seely's Country Club". [62] The club closed down after only a year of being open to the public. [51] The same year, Little Jimmy Dickens released the album Country Music Hall of Fame, which was produced by Seely. [63]