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Today is historic in country music.
For the past 34 years, the museum has been at 4 Music Square East in the Music Row area. That was where country stars Trisha Yearwood and Kathy Mattea served as tour guides, where legendary artist Kitty Wells took visiting friends and family to see her Hall of Fame plaque and where scores of stars came to donate prized possessions that would be displayed and shared with fans. As many times as I've been through that building, I have never tired of standing next to Elvis Presley's white Cadillac while a giant mechanical arm took the roof off so that spotlights could focus on such unique features as the mini-bar and Presley's shoe polisher on the rear floorboard. A display case holds a cigarette lighter found in the wreckage of the plane that crashed in 1963, taking Patsy Cline's life. There's Roy Acuff's fiddle, on which he played Wabash Cannonball countless times, and the bow that he balanced on his chin to entertain Opry audiences.