Word 1 of 10: ROBBINS
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A few of the words
- REEVES
- Jim Reeves was nicknamed Gentleman Jim for his low, soft baritone. He died in a plane crash in 1964, but his records kept charting for years afterward.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ATKINS
- Chet Atkins played guitar with his thumb and fingers and also produced records at RCA in Nashville, helping shape the Nashville Sound.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ROGERS
- Kenny Rogers had a big hit with The Gambler in 1978, and it later inspired a series of TV movies.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- ROBBINS
- Marty Robbins gave us El Paso in 1959, a story song that runs over four minutes and still reached number one on the pop chart.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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A Nashville Sound word search, free and printable, for anyone who can hum a Jim Reeves ballad or the chorus of The Gambler.
About Country Crooners
In the late 1950s Nashville studios traded some of the fiddle and twang for smooth strings, soft backup vocals and a velvet lead voice. Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley ran that sound from Music Row, and the records played just as well on a kitchen radio as at the Grand Ole Opry. This puzzle keeps to the surnames, the way a Saturday night announcer might have rattled them off.
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- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft color on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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