Musician Spotlight: Jimmy Hall

The Read

Jimmy Hall is a Southern-rock and blues singer with a harmonica player’s sense of phrasing, and a résumé that runs from “Keep On Smilin’” to years of work as a hired gun for people who could have called anyone. The Musician Spotlight format is built around exactly that — the mechanics of a career spent in service of other people’s records, with live playing threaded through the conversation. The Ford Theater is a seated room and the program is included with museum admission, which makes a one o’clock Sunday one of the better-value hours in Nashville. Expect stories that would never survive a stage set, and expect the singing to be the surprise. Roughly an hour, out in daylight, no line at the bar because there isn’t one.

The Room

Country Music Hall of Fame

222 Rep. John Lewis Way S

A museum complex whose performance spaces put 150 years of American music history in the room with whoever's playing tonight.