Chris Willman Music WriterJT Gray, the owner and co-founder of the Station Inn, a mecca for bluegrass and roots music enthusiasts in Nashville since the mid-’70s, died Saturday at age 75.
The club attributed the death to pre-existing conditions.Gray had been featured on last Sunday night’s Grammys, as producers picked the Station Inn as one of four venues around the country to spotlight during the telecast.
He was the official presenter for the best country album, which went to Miranda Lambert.The Station Inn opened in 1974 and moved to its present location in Nashville’s Gulch district in 1978.
The modest stone-walled club has stood since then as an emblem of the old Nashville even as the area has been gentrified and skyscrapers have gone.
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