CMHOFM Opens Ed Rode Photography Exhibit

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

The e book combines a long time of tales by means of Rode’s pictures lense, from enjoying snooker with John Prine, celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans with Brad Paisley, to traversing Tennessee with Ketch Secor and extra. Inspiration for the e book struck Rode after taking a photograph of Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins in 1991.

Select images on show embrace:
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Chet Atkins in his Nashville workplace (1991)
– John Prine at Nashville’s Melrose Billiard Parlor (1994)
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Willie Nelson on his tour bus exterior 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 dwelling studio (2021)
– Rhiannon Giddens at Nashville’s Noelle resort (2023)
– Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill at his Nashville dwelling studio (2023)

The exhibit is free and will probably be open to the general public by means of July 2026 within the museum’s first-floor gallery.