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Historic Music Row: Nashville’s Creative Crossroads Pause Slideshow Play Slideshow Historic Music Row: Nashville’s Creative Crossroads Music Row has long been the center of Nashville’s music industry. Within just a few blocks, the offices of record companies, music publishers, and other organizations coalesced to form a unique creative community. Explore Music Row Explore Places People Select a location to trace its history through videos, audio, historic photos, and more. Select a person to follow in the footsteps of key figures in Music Row history. 1 RCA Studio B Opened in 1957 2 RCA Studio A Opened in 1965 3 Tree Publishing/Sony Music Publishing Moved to Music Row: 1964 4 Cedarwood Publishing Founded in 1953 5 Decca Records Moved to Music Row: 1962 6 Bradley Studios/Columbia Studios Opened in 1955 7 Monument Records Founded in 1958 8 BMI Founded in 1939 9 Nashville Association of Musicians Founded in 1902 10 Quadrafonic Studios/Sienna Studios Opened in 1970 11 Jack’s Tracks/Allentown Studios Opened in 1971 12 Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Opened in 1967 13 Capitol Records Opened in 1962 14 Wil-Helm Agency and Sure-Fire Music/Charley Pride Offices Opened in 1962 15 ASCAP Founded in 1914 Harold Bradley Loretta Lynn Roger Miller Dolly Parton Webb Pierce Charley Pride Close Map. Music Row Highlights Previous Gallery Image Next Gallery Image Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. Neil Young Neil Young performs The Needle and the Damage Done” on The Johnny Cash Show , 1971. While in Nashville for this performance, Young recorded parts of his album Harvest at Quadrafonic Studios. Advance to this slide. Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton recording at RCA Studio B in the late 1960s. Click to enlarge image. Talk About a Smash Hit! Dolly Parton begins recording with Porter Wagoner at the studio. She’s so nervous about her first session there, she ran her car into the building, 1967. Advance to this slide. Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. With Hargus Pig” Robbins on piano and Joe Babcock singing back-up, Waylon Jennings records Stop the World” at RCA Studio A. From an educational film on American music, c. 1966. Waylon in the Studio Waylon Jennings records Waylon Sings Ol’ Harlan,” an album of songs by Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter Harlan Howard. Advance to this slide. The Quonset Hut—also known as Studio B—in a late 1950s photo. Photo by Sid O’Berry. Click to enlarge image. The Quonset Hut The Bradley brothers add a military Quonset Hut in the spacious backyard of the house. The mostly prefabricated structure has a long, curved roof, with dimensions of seventy-eight feet long by thirty-five feet wide by thirty-five feet high. Originally intended just for making films and video for television, the Quonset Hut quickly becomes the more popular recording studio. Advance to this slide. Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. Bobby Braddock talks with Bobby Bare about his beginnings in music, his motivation to keep writing, and the success he had with He Stopped Loving Her Today.” From an episode of Bobby Bare and Friends , 1984. He Stopped Loving Her Today” Advance to this slide. Sorry, your browser doesn’t support embedded videos. Walking around RCA Studio B, Roy Orbison points out the placements for each of the players, and their coats, for the "Only the Lonely" session. From a 1981 TV documentary on Orbison that was never finished. Orbison Hits the Charts Roy Orbison’s third single, Only the Lonely,” which was recorded at RCA Studio B, becomes a smash, hitting #2 on the pop charts. Advance to this slide. Plan Your Visit Step into the birthplace of hundreds of Music Row hits with a tour of historic RCA Studio B, and also see the story of country music unfold at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum across two expansive floors of galleries filled with costumes, instruments, and more. Get Your Tickets Today Special thank you to: This online exhibit is made possible by a major grant from National Historical Publications & Records Commission. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Historical Publications & Records Commission. Museum programs are funded in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and Tennessee Arts Commission. Sign up for our newsletter Follow Us COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM • 222 Rep. John Lewis Way South, Nashville, TN 37203 • PHONE: 615.416.2001 ©2021 COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME® AND MUSEUM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | PRIVACY POLICY | TERMS OF...