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Stan Hitchcock cut his first gospel album in 1959, and three years later made the journey from the Ozark Mountains to Nashville. Since then he’s played a pivotal role in key changes and events in Music City, including the formation of Country Music Television in 1984, as well as appearing on the Grand Ole Opry numerous times and hosting two syndicated television shows from 1966-1983.
Now the CEO of the roots-based television network BlueHighways TV located in Hendersonville, Hitchcock has penned a new memoir about his five decades in the music and television business. He’ll read and discuss some of the many remarkable stories and unforgettable events detailed in
At the Corner of Music Row and Memory Laneduring book signings Friday at both Ernest Tubb Record Shops (1 and 4:30 p.m.).
“It was the artists who really understood first the impact that videos could have,” Hitchcock said. “I remember Waylon [Jennings] coming to me and saying that people were coming up to him at autograph sessions and saying that they had just seen his new record, when they meant his new video. He told the label, and other artists began letting them know about the popularity of music videos, and we began getting flooded with videos, when before the labels looked at it as just another expense.”

While he acknowledges in the book his disappointment at the corporate maneuvers that resulted in CMT being sold in 1991 as he was out on location filming
The CMT Roadshow with a then-emerging artist named Garth Brooks, Hitchcock says he has no bitterness about what eventually happened. He’s continued working in music television, first with the Americana Television Network and now BlueHighways TV.
“There are a lot of new artists whose music I enjoy,” Hitchcock said. “If I have any criticism it would be that there’s not the emphasis today on individual sound that there was in the ‘50s and ‘60s. People like Roy Acuff and Ernest Tubb would tell young artists that it’s better to develop your own sound so people can recognize you rather than try and imitate someone else

.What: Author and television executive Stan Hitchcock reads from and signs copies ofAt the Corner of Music Row and Memory Lane

When: 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Friday

Where: Ernest Tubb Record Shop, 417 Broadway (1 p.m.); Ernest Tubb Record Shop #2, 2416 Music Valley Drive (4:30 p.m.)

Cost: free and open to the public
Info: 255-7503, etrecordshop.com; 899-2474

Joe Bonsall of Oak Ridge Boys..on vocal rest but will attend festival...



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