WPLN News Archive; Country Music Hall of Fame (Scott H) 5 16 01; News Archive 5/15/01-7/3/01

wander around the brand new country music hall of fame and you hear the banks and clank some workers hustling to get the doors open and of course you also hear plenty of country music but listen more closely and one phrase seems to constantly hang in the air this clothing is really about telling the story of the spirit of the person is not really needed to tell the story it's not telling stories as we just solid well it's dolly parton stress but the building itself every part of this museum tells a story was telling it's telling several stories actually no one story stone clearly is historic because the music in the city are inextricably linked that's kyle young policy director whether it's the theaters that will bring citizens in for concerts the view of the downtown skyline to the museum's conservatory window or the wsm tower replica atop the hall of fame he says the museum like country music is essentially nashville you call a famed architect seed talk went further and designing them using his firm talk to singers writers and historians to identify country themes the museum had to portray conservatory which is a glass structure front has built a very

heavy steel beams want their civil rights history at collard greens and i made a series of windows looks like piano keys and also the police is very long standing water windows in the present war it's a plane it's been bubbling up in the hall itself represents the inspiration of the stars and shrine there and is a close down to the conservatory it represents the appalachian and mississippi delta music that form countries wellspring

and the circular shape of the hall refers to one of the country's most traditional songs it plus is built for equal society olson's family prayers and they interactive exhibits enable stars themselves to tell their own stories touch a kiosk and dolly parton tells you about one of her hits was years ago it is beer

and now but above all the museums more than one million artifacts themselves tell stories says andy freeman who's preparing costumes and accessories for example what she does is find a story that lives inside the clothing the story of the movie for example she showed off gram parsons singer bearing designs of marijuana leaves and pills freeman had special feelings for one pigs are readily and stress that she made for herself and she was fourteen years old it's just it makes you wanna we kind of surging feeling in my heart i hold a very powerful card very very naive and very like a fourteen year old very very beautifully tender and you knew that for what she had been as

far as the money that you might have had that she was doing this fabulous kind of garment that was just classic he gets but for freeman museum tells that story best in contrast in one hand she holds a delicate white nurse's cap that belong to naomi judd in the other a floppy cowboy hat with the horse hair band once worn by charlie daniel so it's huge hairy and definitely again warren an intense and here's this little fragile shell like it and i thought well his country music starting thursday you can go see for national public radio i'm scott turow yeah