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Article: Nashville tuning out country music heritage.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 29, 2000
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On a blustery Saturday night, crowds pour out of the neon-lit Gaylord Entertainment Center after a Nashville Predators hockey game, and spill into the honky-tonk bars that line Broadway Street.
It's a different type of fan that now visits places like Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, where country music legends once strummed their guitars during breaks at the Grand Ole Opry. Many of the younger generation have never before set foot in a honky-tonk. And the music certainly isn't the reason they visit downtown Nashville on weekends.
"I've never been to the Opry," says John Mitchell, a resident of nearby Franklin. "I come here for the hockey and Titans ...