CMHOFM Opens Ed Rode Photography Exhibit

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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has revealed their new photography exhibit, Writers, Pickers and Stars: The Photography of Ed Rode. The new section features photographs from Rode’s 2024 book, Songwriter Musician: Behind the Curtain with Nashville’s Iconic Storytellers and Players.

The book combines decades of stories through Rode’s photography lense, from playing snooker with John Prine, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Brad Paisley, to traversing Tennessee with Ketch Secor and more. Inspiration for the book struck Rode after taking a photo of Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins in 1991.

Select photographs on display include:
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins in his Nashville office (1991)
– John Prine at Nashville’s Melrose Billiard Parlor (1994)
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Willie Nelson on his tour bus outside Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House (1995)
– The Chicks at Nashville’s Westwood Studios (1999)
– Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown onstage at Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse (2005)
– Country Music Hall of Fame members Cowboy Jack Clement and Kris Kristofferson in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood (2011)
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn on Nashville’s Music Row (2018)
– Keb’ Mo’ in his Nashville home studio (2021)
– Rhiannon Giddens at Nashville’s Noelle hotel (2023)
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill at his Nashville home studio (2023)

The exhibit is free and will be open to the public through July 2026 in the museum’s first-floor gallery.

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