Music tour category
Country music tours to three chords and the truth, as the songwriter Harlan Howard put it, played live in the rooms that made them famous.
Country music has two homes, and our tours visit both. Nashville is the business and the history: the Grand Ole Opry on the radio every week since 1925, the Ryman Auditorium where it broadcast for 31 years, Music Row where the songs are still written, and a strip of honky-tonks on Lower Broadway where bands play for tips from morning to two at night.
Austin is the other side of the family. The outlaw country of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings grew there in the 1970s, away from the Nashville studios, and dance halls like the Broken Spoke still keep the Western swing of Bob Wills alive for couples in boots.
Americana sits between the two, in the songwriter rooms and the bluegrass bars. We always add one of those nights: the Station Inn in Nashville on a Sunday jam, a songwriters round where three writers play the hits they gave to stars, or the Saxon Pub in Austin.
Every country tour has seats bought ahead for the big shows, and a tour leader who has played the circuit and knows which band is worth a detour that night.
Reserved seats for the shows, and backstage tours by day.
The writers behind the hits, in a listening room.
The rooms with the best house bands, not the loudest.
A two-step lesson at the Broken Spoke in Austin.
4 tours
Nashville and Memphis
Nashville, Memphis
Our most booked trip: three nights of country in Nashville, then down I-40 for rock and roll at Sun, soul at Stax and a night on Beale Street.
From $2,790 per person, double room
See the tourNashville, Muscle Shoals, Memphis, Mississippi Delta and New Orleans
Nashville, Florence, Memphis, Clarksdale, New Orleans
Ten days down the road from Nashville to New Orleans, with the studios of Muscle Shoals, Sun and Stax, two nights in the Delta and three in the jazz city at the end.
From $4,890 per person, double room
See the tourNashville
Nashville
A long weekend that does Nashville properly: the Opry live, a backstage morning at the Ryman, Studio B, and a songwriter night away from Broadway.
From $1,890 per person, double room
See the tourAustin
Austin
Five days on South Congress with a club every night: the Continental Club, ACL Live, a two-step lesson at the Broken Spoke, and the rock rooms of Red River.
From $2,290 per person, double room
See the tourLand prices per person sharing a double room.
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Nashville: four days in Music City has the Opry, the Ryman, Studio B and a songwriter night. Add Memphis with the six-day tour.
No. Our tours lean to the history and the traditional sound, with the new acts at the Opry for balance.
At the Broken Spoke in Austin, after a lesson. In Nashville, at Robert's Western World on a good night.
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