Beginning July 15. 2007, the Music Ranch USA theater will be operated by Kevin Grissom. Grissom has established an enviable reputation both as a band leader and as a musician at the Lebanon Junction Jamboree.

Music Ranch, Inc., a Kentucky corporation, will continue to operate the Chow Hall restaurant 5-7 p.m. before the Saturday night shows, and other hours as announced. But Kevin will be in complete control of the 500 seat theater after the July 14 Narvel Felts concert.

Grissom will take the stage with his excellent Country Cookin’ Band. He will announce his showplace as Kevin Grissom’s Music Ranch USA. He will bring with him new equipment including sound, lights, decorations, that will make he shows more enjoyable for you.

• Music Ranch is grateful for the services of Michael Goodman and the Goodman Experience, including
Christy Miller,

• of Matt Lyerla and the Dixie Creek Road Show, our singing, picking, piano scorching and drumming star from Fort Knox where he serves as a first lieutenant,

• of David Berry,always a great picker and singer, and his fine band including members with long-time affiliations with Music Ranch and its predecessor West Point Country Opry,

• of the Indiana Hard Core Country Band, discovered in a remote Indiana forest and loved by Rube and Nancy and hundreds more...
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• The Hard CORE Country Band will play its last show here this coming Saturday June 23, and we promise a surprise for you when they open the show. They are a good band, they are good people, and we have enjoyed them. Come Saturday and help tell them goodbye. Their guest will be Eric Simmons, a favorite at Shepherdsville and Lebanon Junction.

Matt will play his last show June 30, but the Dixie Creek Road Show will return to play for Narvel Felts’ concert July 14. Matt will miss it.

Michael Goodman’s last show is July 7, and ironically his guest will be Emily Portman of Grayson County, who has been a regular singer at Lebanon Junction. Michael earlier turned down an opportunity to be a sole band at Music Ranch, as did Matt.

David Berry played his last show last Saturday.

All those listed in our calendar as guests in shows after July 14 will be retained by Kevin, he tells us.

If you look for familiar faces of the old Music Ranch on July 21, Kevin’s first show here, you will find the familiar face of Vernon Curl in the concession stand. No one could stand to break up his routine. You also will see many of us there rooting for Kevin’s success. Find Nancy and Rube before the show in the Chow Hall – which we of the “old order” will continue to operate.

In the history of the west where cowboy-country music was born, Chow is food and Hall is he place you eat it, unless you get it at the Chow Wagon. Can you believe a man told us he didn’t know the Chow Hall was a restaurant?

The “old order” may be presenting other kinds of music on other days at Kevin Grissom’s Music Ranch USA.

Kevin will have his own revised web page up soon. We'll link you to it.

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