{"id":15929,"date":"2021-08-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=15929"},"modified":"2021-08-27T07:25:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:25:55","slug":"barbara-mandrell-teams-up-with-opry-for-merchandise-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/barbara-mandrell-teams-up-with-opry-for-merchandise-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Mandrell Teams Up With Opry For Merchandise Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Mandrell has teamed up with the Grand Ole Opry to launch an exclusive merchandise line in celebration of her signature hit \u201cI Was Country When Country Wasn\u2019t Cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CTCsLh1H7zZ\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>The collection is available online at store.opry.com and in the Opry gift shop and includes \u201cI Was Country When Country Wasn\u2019t Cool\u201d branded t-shirts, Hatch poster, coffee mug and more.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Opry has always felt like a second home to me. My love for that historic stage is why I chose it as the location for my final performance. I simply had to step in the circle one last time. I am blessed to have recorded this song, honored that country fans are still listening to it and thrilled to celebrate 40 years of \u2018being country, when country wasn\u2019t cool\u2019 with the Grand Ole Opry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barbara released \u201cI Was Country When Country Wasn\u2019t Cool\u201d in April of 1981 as the lead single from her Barbara Mandrell Live album. The song hit Number One on July 4, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barbara Mandrell has teamed up with the Grand Ole Opry to launch an exclusive merchandise line in celebration of her signature hit \u201cI Was Country When Country Wasn\u2019t Cool.\u201d","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4232,3500,5844],"class_list":["post-15929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-barbara-mandrell","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-i-was-country-when-country-wasnt-cool"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:37:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/08\/barbara-mandrell-teams-up-with-opry-for-merchandise-line\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}