With just 776 seats, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s intimate CMA Theater makes the Ryman feel big, and that’s just one reason to go. Every time you do, magic happens. Emmylou Harris and James Taylor come out to sing Linda Ronstadt songs with Trisha Yearwood. Old Crow Medicine Show plays an acoustic, pin-drop version of Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.” You realize the guy you’re sitting next to knows so much about the artist onstage because he discovered them 30 years ago. These things don’t happen everywhere, even in Music City. But they do happen at the CMA Theater.
