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Tennessee · United States
Learn the history of how the music industry got its start in Nashville. Discover which musicians record where and other interesting facts.
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9 sections · tap a section for its opening lines1Music Row
Welcome to Music Row, the quiet, unassuming epicenter of the American recording industry. If you were to walk a few miles down to Lower Broadway, you would find the neon-drenched, rowdy spectacle of Nashville's famous Honky Tonk…
Listen in the app2Owen Bradley Park: The Gateway to the Sound
Our journey begins at the northern edge of Music Row, in a small, contemplative public space known as Owen Bradley Park. Dedicated in October of nineteen ninety-nine, this pocket park serves as the symbolic gateway to the…
Listen in the app3Buddy Killen Circle and the Musica Sculpture
Just a short walk from Owen Bradley Park, you will find yourself standing at the edge of the Music Row roundabout, officially known as the Buddy Killen Circle. This large traffic circle anchors the northern entrance of the…
Listen in the app4Curb Studios and the Historic Murals
Continuing our walk southward along the avenue, we encounter the sprawling complex of Curb Studios. As you approach these buildings, your eyes are immediately drawn to the vibrant, larger-than-life murals painted directly onto…
Listen in the app5Historic RCA Studio B
We now arrive at the corner of Roy Acuff Place and Music Square East, standing before a building of unparalleled historical gravity: Historic RCA Studio B. If you were to evaluate this structure purely on its architectural…
Listen in the app6Columbia Studio A and The Quonset Hut
Our next stop takes us to a property with an architectural history as fascinating and unconventional as the music it produced. We are now looking at the historic footprint of Columbia Studio A and the legendary Quonset Hut. …
Listen in the app7Spence Manor and the Guitar Pool
As we walk a bit further down the row, we approach a building that shifts our focus from the labor of recording to the luxurious, often eccentric lifestyle of the artists themselves. This multi-story structure is the former…
Listen in the app8The Bobby John Henry Bakery (Former Room Service Kitchen)
For our final specific stop, we will step inside the ground floor of the former Spence Manor building, moving from the grand, historical exterior into a highly intimate, sensory interior space. As you cross the threshold, notice…
Listen in the app9Closing
As we step back out onto the quiet sidewalks of sixteenth and seventeenth avenues, returning to our starting point, it is time to synthesize the profound historical and cultural data we have gathered. We have traversed a…
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What is Music Row?
Music Row is a place in Tennessee · United States with 9 story sections on Tellby. You can read the opening of each section on this page; the sound plays in the app.
| Location | Tennessee · United States |
|---|---|
| Type | Heritage |
| Story sections | 9 |
| Text language | English |
| Coordinates | 36.1476, -86.7930 |
| Last updated |
