Well, The owner of a Bristol parking lot that’s regarded as the birthplace of commercial country music has decided not to sell it at auction after all. Starwood Properties owner Tim Carter had planned to sell the parking lot plus one other lot and an office building because of the slumping economy. The company did sell the two other properties Friday, but not the historic lot. Carter refused a $67,500 offer from the law firm Hayle, Lyle and Russell because he said it was too low. Afterward, he said the company would market the land to the country music industry. The sit is where talent scout Ralph Peer made the first commercially successful country music recordings in 1927. Peer recorded the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers and the Stonemans. The lot has often been discussed as a potential site for a memorial.