A major new exhibit celebrating Luke Bryan opens today (May 22) at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.
Luke Bryan fans have another reason to visit Nashville. Their favorite country music singer is being honored in an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum that tells the story of his life, starting at his childhood in Georgia.
It’s called “Luke Bryan: Dirt Road Diary,” and fans can expect to see such items as Bryan’s elementary school backpack and kindergarten graduation diploma on display, along with the first guitar he ever got at age 14.
“That’s the thing. How did this guitar make it from leaned up against my bed when I was 14 and 15, how did it make it to the Hall of Fame?” Bryan marveled at a preview event on Wednesday. “So, it’s pretty crazy to think about.”
Other items on display in his exhibit include his ACM and CMA Entertainer of the Year trophies and the outfits he’s worn at those awards shows over the years. The country singer’s love of hunting and fishing is represented by some of his fishing tackles and the trophies he’s won for hunting deer over the years, too.
Bryan brought his family to see the event, but missing were his two sons, Bo and Tate. He joked they were absent because he didn’t want them tearing down the Museum!
“Bo is definitely starting to understand kind of what I do for a living and even last night on ‘The Voice,’ he sent me a picture. … He built me a boat out of Legos and was like, ‘Daddy, this is for you for being on ‘The Voice,'” he said, adding that he planned to bring the boys to the exhibit soon.
“I think moments like this are always special when you can get your family together and experience them together.”
The experience reminded him of going to the Hall of Fame with his father when he first moved to Nashville in 2001.
“I think at one point Garth [Brooks] was in there doing a real neat audio/video piece where he described stuff — me and my dad sitting there watching it,” he recalled.
Bryan’s “Dirt Road Diary” exhibit is on display at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville May 22 through November 8.
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