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It’s the one place where Daddys still hold their place at the pinnacle of the family…. Nashville.

From Dolly Parton looking up doey-eyed at her kind-faced Daddy.

To Kenny Rogers fishing and hunting and getting some home-spun philosophy from his.

With Johhny Cash, biting and spitting and brawling with his before hugging it out.

Country Music has always been a safe, homely, old-fashioned throwback.

Where Dancing Dads go to lune-dance and wrap themselves up in fuzzy warm nostalgia.

You’ll see here that I want to get out to Nashville… and so to my hint for Father’s Day for Sunday, June 21.

I should already have been to Nashville already, last year.

But as seems to be the story of my life I was double booked.

I was out instead in South Africa https://www.southafrica.net/uk/en/ What’s new pussycat? when I could have been visiting Keith Urban https://keithurban.net in the Home of Country https://www.visitmusiccity.com

Thankfully the folks from Nashville who took us to see Keith The Country To Country Weekend in Dublin last year haven’t forgotten us.

And they’re giving us the next big thing to being out there – vouchers for when we can get to Nashville.

Purchase a travel gift card for either $100, $250 or $500.

And you’ll get personalised service from a Nashville Visitor Specialist.

Travel funds can apply to lodging, attraction tickets or bundled hotel packages.

Power couple: Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman

And if you already have a trip planned, check out the Visitor Coupons & Special Offers.

Or check out the Music City Shop to gift authentic Nashville gear.

Pick out a Nashville t-shirt, koozie (stubbie-holder to you and me), hat or a Music City campfire mug.

Visit imogene + willie (I’m not making this up) for the perfect pair of local jeans.

While I’m reliably informed that you should check outHaymakers & Co. for the perfect button down and more.

Elvis and me: At his breakfast bar in Memphis

And what shouts Country more than a button-down shirt.

Personally I browsed Lansky Bros, the tailors to the King on Beale Street, Memphis for mine.

Don’t ask me why: Before the Keith Urban gig in Dublin

On my Tennessee and Mississippi odyssey… https://www.deep-south-usa.com and The Promised Land, The story of the Blues and The King of Kings.

Book your room in Nashville by visiting hotel websites for special deals and offers.

Such as: Dream Nashville,Noelle, Omni Nashville, Union Station,The Russell, Fairlane HotelThe Hermitage Hotel, .

Or purchase a Vacation Package through Visit Music City. Visit And see http://www.visitmusiccity.com/fathers-day-nashville

And for more Cowboy action then here’s my Wild West journey http://www.denver.org http://Go West. And http://www.colorado.com and The New Frontiersmen. And Like a Greystones cowboy… in Texas.

I’ve seen five-a-side footballers (of whom I am one again) dribbling the ball under the table in the bar afterwards… but I didn’t expect the rodeo show when it came.

But that’s what they do for fun in Cleveland, Mississippi https://www.deep-south-usa.com and where myself and my Travel colleague Issy stayed back after our party had left.

The locals were watching the rodeo on the TV and one guy was lassoing the barmaid into him.

I think her name was Daisy although that’s maybe my fevered imagination.

But that trip to mark the Martin Luther King 50 commemorations of the Great Man’s passing The Promised Land, and this diversion got me hankering to go to the rodeo.

And if you’re going to throw yourself into it then you’re best going big… which means Trxas.

RodeoHouston, www.rodeohouston.com, the world’s biggest rodeo, takes place from March 3-22 in Houston.

Where 70,000 will attend daily.

And you’ll get to see 17 acts, among them Willie Nelson, Gwen Stefani and Keith Urban.

The latter, who graced us in Dublin when he visited with Nashville’s Country & Western https://www.visitmusiccity.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=why_nashville&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0KjnmMnq5wIVgrHtCh0AZw74EAAYASAAEgLynvD_BwE weekend from at the RDS is particularly worth seeing.

Of course you’ll know that this former son of Greystones, Co. Wicklow is made for rodeo from his adventures in Corado… The New Frontiersmen.

Now you’ve got a taste for Houston then what about the Apollo Mission Control Center, the Houston Museum District and the Holocaust Museum Houston?

Are you sitting comfortably then I’ll begin

And the best way to get around it all? Our friends at www.VisitHouston.com tell us that Houston’s Experience Marketplace is the ticket.

Because they will send you tickets via text and email for among other top things… the Houston Museum Pass, the Houston Brew Pass and the Space Center General Admission.

All major airlines fly out of the UK and Ireland to Houston.

Houston…. I have no problem!

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Like a Greystones cowboy… in Texas