- Eddie Stubbs is a radio disc jockey broadcasting old-style country music on WSM, a radio station with a nighttime clear channel signal broadcast from Nashville, Tennessee, United States
| Born: | 25 November 1961 Comment | | How old is Eddie Stubbs in 2024? / Age: | 62 years
| | Where was Eddie Stubbs born? | Gaithersburg, Maryland, US | | Zodiac sign: | Sagittarius |
Eddie Stubbs Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Eddie Stubbs worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Bald | | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who is Eddie Stubbs? / Facts
- He is also one of two regular announcers for the long-running Grand Ole Opry carried on WSM on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights
- He is on the air on weekday evenings from 7 pm to midnight, Central Time, on WSM
- WSM's powerful nighttime clear channel signal allows WSM to be heard in a large part of the US and Canada
- As a result, Stubbs has many regular listeners in all parts of the US and Canada in areas far away from Nashville
- A fifth-generation resident of Montgomery County, Maryland, he graduated from Gaithersburg High School and became a fiddle player with a traditional bluegrass band, The Johnson Mountain Boys
- After a decade, the band split up and Stubbs has only played sporadically since
- Stubbs' first radio job was a weekly bluegrass show for WYII in Williamsport, Maryland, in 1983 where he earned $20 per program
- In 1984, he was hired by WAMU in Washington, DC and worked alongside the veteran country deejay Gary Henderson
- He received his own show in 1990 but continued to do odd-jobs such as house-painting to supplement his income
- "No one gets rich in radio", he observed
- The Eddie Stubbs Show on WAMU was discontinued in April 2007
- He developed a friendship with the country singer Kitty Wells and her husband, the guitar player and singer Johnnie Wright, and played with them during DC area appearances
- They eventually convinced Stubbs to move to Nashville in 1995 and join them full-time
- But within seventeen days of arriving in the country music capital, he was hired by The Grand Ole Opry as a regular announcer"
- Five people up for the job, and the new kid in town gets the gig? If that's not God, I don't know what is," said Stubbs
- In 2002, Stubbs was named the Country Music Association's Large Market Air Personality of the Year
- The alternative weekly, Nashville Scene, named him Best Country Deejay, and he has also been listed in Nashville Life Magazine's "100 Coolest People"
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What users say about Eddie Stubbs
- Mike Jackson: your Wife name. (January 17, 2021)
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- [email protected]: I need to send you a song Eddy (January 09, 2021)
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- Ed O'Brien, Discovery Bay, CA: Eddie, so appreciated your broadcasts and Opry announcing. Thanks so much and best wishes for a great retirement. (July 30, 2020)
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- Michael Sullivan: Eddie, loved you all those years with the Johnson Mountain Boys and as a WSM dj and Grand Ole Opry announcer. Almost 40 years of wonderful work in music. Good luck in the future you'll be sorely missed.
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Last update: 03 August 2020
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