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Music Row
Cluster of converted houses turned recording studios that shaped modern country music.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Music Row in Nashville follows brothers Owen and Harold Bradley, who in the mid nineteen fifties converted a modest house and a war-surplus Quonset hut into Nashville's first commercial recording studio. It traces how that odd, improvised building pulled Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly through its doors and drew RCA and other studios onto the same stretch of street, turning a row of houses into the country music industry's home base. Listen for how much of that old residential block still stands around you.
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