On Demand Program Videos

In keeping with the museum's mission to educate its audiences about the history of country music, the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum offers on-demand video streaming of selected programs. Check back often to see new videos.

Nashville Cats: Jerry Carrigan

February 21, 2009

Jerry Carrigan vividly remembers his first major Nashville session, after having made a name for himself as part of the primary rhythm section at Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Surrounded by A-team players—Ray Edenton on acoustic guitar, Grady Martin on electric guitar, Bob Moore on bass, and either Floyd Cramer or Pig Robbins on piano—Carrigan was told to play a shuffle.

Poets and Prophets: Whitey Shafer

June 21, 2008

Everything changed for Whitey Shafer in 1950 when he heard Lefty Frizzell's "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" on a cafe jukebox. "I learned right away," said Shafer. "It cost me quite a few nickels, but I learned it." Over twenty years later, Shafer became Frizzell's best friend and chief co-writer. Together, they penned the classics "That's the Way Love Goes" and "I Never Go Around Mirrors." Shafer when on to write some of the most significant country songs of the last forty years, including "Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind" and "All My Ex's Live in Texas," for George Strait.

Appearing as part of the Poets and Prophets series, Shafer interjected his honest, down-home humor into a ninety-minute interview and performance, transfixing the capacity Ford Theater audience with soulful singing and picking.

Nashville Cats: Reggie Young 

May 3, 2008

Listening to the radio on his way to the recording studio, Reggie Young heard a guitar break that he thought could have been played better ("something with more soul"). When the guitar legend realized that he himself had supplied the solo, it gave him pause. He decided to reduce his heavy workload by charging double-scale for his services, making him one of the first Nashville musicians to do so. To his credit, it didn't slow him down much.

Reggie shared this story and many others during his recent Nashville Cats program in the museum's Ford Theater.

March 1, 2008

Bob McDill doesn’t hesitate to use the word “art” when referring to country music songwriting.
One of Music Row’s most thoughtful and literary songwriters, McDill spoke eloquently and humorously on his career during a March 1 program in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theater.

Appearing as part of the Museum’s ongoing Poets and Prophets series, McDill told tales about his best-loved songs and commented about his approach to songwriting.

Interview: Don and Harold Reid of the Statler Brothers

February 28, 2008

In 1963, the Statler Brothers met Johnny Cash while he was on tour in Virginia, and without hearing the vocal group, he invited them to be the opening act on his show. This marked the beginning of a long relationship between the two iconic country acts, and kicked-off the Statler Brothers’ award-winning career.

 Shortly after the February announcement of their election to the Country Music Hall of Fame, Don and Harold Reid stopped by the Museum to share stories and discuss their memoir, Random Memories. In a candid interview they offered recollections of opening for Cash, the story behind their first hit, “Flowers on the Wall,” and the birth of Lester “Roadhog” Moran.