{"id":1307397,"date":"2019-03-29T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804530"},"modified":"2019-03-29T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T20:01:15","slug":"riley-green-explains-his-not-quite-so-grand-ole-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/riley-green-explains-his-not-quite-so-grand-ole-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Green Explains His Not-Quite-So-Grand Ole Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 32m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Riley Green signed a Nashville record deal, wrote a few country songs, recorded them, released one to country radio, and then made a video to go along with it.<\/p>\n

However, it wasn\u2019t until he played the Grand Ole Opry stage that his family considered him a success. \u201cThat was when I was famous to my family,\u201d the \u201cThere Was This Girl\u201d singer told CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/em><\/a>. \u201cEspecially to my grandparents. (It\u2019s) probably the biggest thing I could ever do in country music.\u201d<\/p>\n

That may be because growing up in Alabama, Green\u2019s family already had their own version of the Opry. It was a friends and family music hall. He calls it their miniature Grand Ole Opry. \u201cMy granddaddy was always big on anybody that wants to play and sing can get up and play and sing. Everybody gets a couple songs, then takes a break, then gets back at it again,\u201d he added. Oh, and his cousin was always there, too, telling jokes just like Minnie Pearl. \u201cIt was a really cool thing that I probably took for granted a little bit, because I had it all the time. You don\u2019t see stuff like this anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

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