How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A.: 50 Years of Music Row (Book and CD) - Softcover

Kosser, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0634098063 ISBN 13: 9780634098062

Publisher: Hal Leonard, 2006

Synopsis

How did a medium-sized Southern river town become arguably the most important music center in America? In How Nashville Became Music City, U.S.A., we learn how a single studio in a tiny duplex house became Music Row, a ten-block area populated by hundreds of talented people whose job is to simply make music.

The book features stories from publishers, songwriters and others who help tell the evolution of this fabled center of music. It's where Elvis ushered in the commercial rock 'n' roll explosion by recording “Heartbreak Hotel ” Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Willie Nelson taught mainstream America to love soulful ballads, and Bob Dylan recorded three of his most important albums.

The full-length CD includes 12 recordings made in the early studios of Music Row, giving listeners a rare chance to hear the demos made by some of Nashville's most talented artists. Songs include “Bye, Bye, Love ” “Crazy ” “King of the Road ” “Walkin' After Midnight” and “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Kosser (Nashville) is a senior editor at American Songwriter magazine, where he has written a column on songwriting called “Street Smarts” for the past twenty years.

Review:

"...a reliable reference book, and one's bookshelf will be decidedly richer for its inclusion." -- AFM 251 bi-monthly newsletter/April-June 2006

"Kosser...succeeds in painting a vivid panorama of artists and executives, many of them larger than life." -- American Songwriter

About this edition

• Publisher: Hal Leonard
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0634098063
• ISBN 13: 9780634098062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373