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Tennessee Motorcycles and Music Revival – By Scott High 24 Jokers Wild
By Scott High
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In early 2017, we started hearing about a new rally coming to Tennessee. We met with the organizers and immediately knew this rally was going to be big. The first year in the fall of 2017 the attendance was good and when the rally was over we knew it was just going to get bigger. 2018 and 2019 were also in the fall and both years were bigger, 2019 was probably even double the first year. For 2020 everyone was on lockdown or some type of restriction so there was no rally and the organizers decided that the off year was a good time to move the dates to the spring. There are a lot of rallies in the fall so the decision to move the dates to the weekend before the Memorial Day weekend was an easy one, and a good one. The event started on Thursday May 20th and ran through Sunday the 23rd, and over those 4 days, well over 13,000 people passed through the gates. Way more than double 2019. With the laid back atmosphere provided in part by being on Loretta Lynn’s Ranch in Hurricane Mills TN, mixed with good ole southern hospitality, it’s hard to not have a good time. Everything about this year’s TMMR was better, let’s call it “more polished.” The organizers had already put on three great events, and they had 19 months to get ready for 2021! As the name
implies, the music is almost nonstop. There are 3 music venues, The Speed Shack is a live music bar located right next to the flat track racing (more on that later), The Waterin’ Hole is a live music bar located on the banks of Hurricane Creek next to Bill Dodge’s BC Moto Invitational, a showcase of some of the nation’s top builders. The third, and largest music venue is Loretta’s Road House which is a huge pavilion located right in the center of the action as it should be. The Speed Shack usually fires up in the morning and features some of the best up and coming singer/songwriters Nashville has to offer and a few established artist and bands and goes until late afternoon. The Waterin’ hole also starts the music early, but it keeps on going until about 3am. We can neither confirm nor deny that we may have stood around the campfire by the Waterin’ Hole a couple of nights between about 1 to 3am singing
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along and probably talking really loud to people who were probably talking really loud back to us. We’ll just say a good time was had by all! Loretta’s Roadhouse is where the concerts happen. Two acts have performed at every TMMR so far, they are the band Stone Senate, and Tim Montana, who you’ll probably see running around having fun all weekend. This year’s Headliner was Billy Gibbons and the BFG’s. They performed some of their original music which I really like, but Billy didn’t disappoint and also mixed in a lot of our ZZ Top favorites! Then there were the motorcycles. As the event was presented by Harley-Davidson Surrounding Area Dealers, Harley-Davidson was on hand with two of their Demo trucks full of bikes, including (if I’m not mistaken for the first time publicly) the all new Pan American. The guys running the demos said the hardest thing they had to do was keep gas in the new adventure touring bikes. As we mentioned earlier Flat Track Racing was happening almost all weekend. FIST City Flat Track brought their show to the ranch and the racing was spectacular. There is a lot of great riding around the ranch, lots of great riding roads, beautiful scenery, history, and destinations to visit. This year you could even bring off road bikes and explore the miles and miles of trails that have hosted GNCC races and scrambles through the years. And let’s not forget bike shows. Thursday there was an Antique Motorcycle exhibit, Friday we sponsored the Thunder Roads TN Bike Show in support of Bikers Who Care. It’s a ride in show and we had a great turn out. Saturday was a stop on the V-Twin Visionary Performance Motorcycle Show Series. It was a really great rally and we think it will only get bigger. Watch these pages for information on next year’s event and come hang out with us, you won’t be sorry!
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