How Nashville Became Music City U.S.A. : 50 Years of Music Row (Mixed media product)

How Nashville Became Music City U.S.A.: 50 Years of Music Row 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.