Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry! Some background information:

The Grand Old Opry is the oldest still existing radio show in the United States! It started out as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company. The name Grand Ole Opry came about on November 28, 1928. On October 2, 1954, a teenage Elvis Presley made his first (and only) performance there. Although the public reacted politely to his revolutionary brand of rockabilly music, after the show he was told by one of the organizers that he ought to return to Memphis to resume his truck-driving career, prompting him to swear never to return. Ironically, years later Garth Brooks commented in a television interview that one of the greatest thrills of playing the Opry was that he got to play on the same stage Elvis had.

The Ryman was home to the Opry until 1974, when the show moved to the 4,400-seat Grand Ole Opry House, located several miles to the east of downtown Nashville on a former farm in the Pennington Bend of the Cumberland River. An adjacent theme park, called Opryland USA, was developed, but shut down in the late 1990s by the current owner of the Opry, the Gaylord Company. The theme park was replaced by the Opry Mills Mall. An adjacent hotel, the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center, is one of the largest non-gambling hotels in North America and the site of dozens of conventions annually. Still, the Opry continues, with hundreds of thousands of fans traveling from around the world to Nashville to see the music and comedy on the Opry in person.