For More YouTubes of Mark O'Connor: / markoconnor For more about Mark O'Connor http://www.markoconnor.com (Mark O'Connor's American Music Shop Television Show) 1990 "Love at the Five and Dime" with Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, James McMurtry https://twitter.com/#!/markoconnor35 / markoconnorfanpage American Music Shop on TNN in Nashville featured Mark O'Connor as bandleader accompanying various musical guests each week. (1990-1993) American Music Shop Band Mark O'Connor; violin, bandleader and music director Jerry Douglas; Dobro, Lap Steel Brent Mason/Brent Rowan; Guitars John Jarvis/Matt Rollings; Keyboards; Glen Worf; Bass Harry Stinson; Drums, Background Vocals Producer; Rusty Wilcoxen Director; Dennis Globe Sound Mixer; Kim Raymer Executive Producer, Show Creator; Brian O'Neill Chicago Tribune Television. Tnn's `American Music Shop' Brings Top Performers Together July 03, 1993|By Wayne Bledsoe, Scripps-Howard News Service. NASHVILLE — On a network filled with music, "The American Music Shop" stands out. Nearly every show of the Nashville Network's "American Music Shop" (9 p.m. and 1 a.m. Tuesdays, TNN) is an event: Country diva Emmylou Harris performs with new star Trisha Yearwood; legendary singer-songwriter John Prine trades songs with upcoming singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding; young country star Dwight Yoakam picks with bluegrass great Ralph Stanley; Ireland's foremost band, the Chieftains, performs with Ricky Skaggs and Chet Atkins. It's a show where individual music artists perform together, often for the first time, backed up by some of the best session players in music... The show, TNN's fourth most popular program, seems to be a particular favorite among other musicians. It doesn't hurt that the members of the house band have followings in their own right. Led by master violinist, guitarist, mandolinist Mark O'Connor, the band includes Jerry Douglas, a man who has nearly reinvented the dobro; guitarist Brent Mason; bassist Glen Worf; drummer Harry Stinson; and keyboardists John Jarvis and Matt Rollings. "In developing the show, I sold the network on getting the very best possible house band that we could get," O'Neill says. "And that was going to be part of the draw for the show-at least from the artist's perspective." O'Connor, probably the most popular session musician in Nashville at the time, was thrilled with the prospect. He says the show offered the first chance for television audiences to get a look at how Nashville's studio musicians work. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/19...