Nashville’s famed Ernest Tubb Record Shop, a country music institution for over 70 years, will permanently shutter its doors this spring.
“It’s with great sadness that we share the news that the Ernest Tubb Record Shop — building and business — will be sold,” the company that runs the store said Friday in a statement.
“Our goal has always been to protect, promote and preserve the great history of the record shop and building. That desire remains as strong today as ever. However, due to changes in circumstances out of our control, it’s now clear the best way forward is to sell the business and the real estate.”
The shop, founded by Grand Ole Opry legend Ernest Tubb in 1947, had been at its 417 Broadway location in Nashville – across from the Ryman Auditorium and where it hosted the Midnite Jamboree radio show – since 1951. In addition to specializing in…
