The Christian pop and rock music industry is based along Nashville's Music Row, with a great influence in neighboring Williamson County.

Bryant played in Nashville bars and did some recording work but his personality did not mesh well with Nashville's highly political music and recording industry.

Centered around 16th and 17th Avenues South ( called Music Square East and Music Square West, respectively, within the Music Row area ), along with several side streets, Music Row is widely considered the heart of Nashville's entertainment industry.

Stein sued the same day in Nashville's federal court, saying he was entitled to 1. 875 percent of what the band makes.

Nashville's first skyscraper, the Life & Casualty Tower, was completed in 1957 and started the construction of high rises in downtown Nashville.

Fred Foster later argued that Rose's takeover was responsible for the commercial failure of Orbison's work at MGM ; engineer Bill Porter agreed that Orbison's best work could only be achieved with RCA Nashville's A Team.

Mercury Nashville's promotion of the album was based largely upon a series of music videos.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

The ceremony was then moved to Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in New York City, and then Nashville's Tennessee Theatre in the following two years.

Although both Brooks and director Bud Schaetzle publicly denied that the video was crafted specifically to foster debate, its banning shed light on Nashville's conservative programming practices and brought attention to Brooks ' developing sense of showmanship.

Although he developed a cult following with his performances, he was not able to develop any mainstream success, but other performers achieved charting success by recording songs Coe had written, including Billie Jo Spears ' 1972 recording " Souvenirs & California Mem ' rys " and Tanya Tucker's 1973 single " Would You Lay With Me ( In a Field of Stone )," which was a number one hit, and responsible for Coe becoming one of Nashville's hottest songwriters and Coe himself being signed by Columbia Records.

" Black soon became known as one of Nashville's " hat acts "; like other country artists such as Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and Mark Chesnutt, Black was a relative newcomer who wore a hat, and had " clean, neotraditional sound with pop appeal ".

Nashville's pop song structure became more pronounced and it morphed into what was called countrypolitan.

Nashville's Duane Walker was named the MVP.

The following year was Nashville's last as a Reds affiliate.

Nashville's Rick Renick was named the American Association Manager of the Year.

The Observer, Nashville's weekly Jewish newspaper, tried to find a middle ground between assimilation and particularism, but after years of calling for group solidarity, accepted that the Jewish community was pluralistic.

Severinsen declared from the stage that Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center was the finest performing venue in the United States.

Nashville's first airport was Hampton Field, which operated until 1921.

Nashville's predominance in county music was regained by the early 1980s, when Dwight Yoakam and other neo-traditionalists entered the charts.

According to The Tennessean, while hospitalized at Nashville's Centennial Medical Center, he was in intensive care with a fever of 104 degrees.

Daniels was born October 28, 1936, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and raised on a musical diet that included Pentecostal gospel, local bluegrass bands and the rhythm & blues and country music from Nashville's 50, 000-watt radio stations WLAC and WSM.

Nashville's temporary Parthenon was reconstructed in permanent materials in a project lasting from 1920 to 1931 and still stands today as an art gallery on the original exposition grounds, which became Centennial Park.

His picture was placed on the cover of Nashville's city directory, testifying to his popularity in the non-traditional hockey market.

The station signed on the air on November 29, 1995 and was Nashville's affiliate for The WB.

On Friday nights in the fall, Sports Talk was extended by an hour and featured Nashville's first television show entirely devoted to high school football scores.

It was long controlled by Nashville's influential Stahlman family.

In conjunction with Curb's educational projects, Curb has purchased and restored Elvis Presley's first home in Memphis, TN, the Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville, TN, the Historic RCA Studio B, and Columbia's Historic Quonset Hut which was the first recording studio on Nashville's famed Music Row.

) produced by packagers like Nashville's Show Biz, Inc.

In the United States, varieties of cowpunk played by bands such as Nashville's Jason & the Scorchers, Arizona's Meat Puppets, and Southern California's Social Distortion had a similar effect.

The audio on Channel 9 is provided by WPLN-FM, Nashville's NPR affiliate.

Paul's most-recognizable recordings from then through the mid-1970s were an album for London Records / Phase 4 Stereo, Les Paul Now ( 1968 ), on which he updated some of his earlier hits ; and, backed by some of Nashville's celebrated studio musicians, a meld of jazz and country improvisation with fellow guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, Chester and Lester ( 1976 ), for RCA Victor.

In the late 1950s, Elektro-Mess-Technik ( EMT ) introduced the EMT 140 ; a model popular in recording studios, contributing to many hit records such as those recorded by Bill Porter in Nashville's RCA Studio B.

The terminal is served by Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority bus route 18, which provides express and local service between the airport's passenger facilities and the Music City Central bus terminal in Nashville's central business district.

Such cars are used by Metra in and around Chicago, by Caltrain along the west side of San Francisco Bay, by Montreal's Agence métropolitaine de transport, by Virginia Railway Express ( VRE ) in Northern Virginia, by Nashville's Music City Star and by MARC Train in Maryland.

During the American Civil War, Morgan engaged in manufacturing munitions for the Confederates until Nashville's occupation by Union forces.

For example, MCA Nashville's catalogue includes country releases on Dot Records, and Deutsche Grammophon's catalogue includes the Westminster Records catalogue, as well as various soundtracks released by Dot and Paramount Records ( among other labels ) that consisted of orchestral arrangements.

The WSM callsign is also assigned to an FM station in Nashville, and was shared by Nashville's then co-owned television Channel 4, now WSMV, until 1981.

( It was unable to use Nashville's ornate new Union Station terminal for instance, as that was controlled by the rival Louisville and Nashville Railroad and its subsidiary Nashville, Chattanooga & St.

The service is operated by the Regional Transportation Authority, Nashville's public transportation agency.

According to the Ellis Nassour biography Patsy Cline, Nelson, who at that time was known as a struggling songwriter by the name of Hugh Nelson, was a regular at Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on Nashville's Music Row, where he frequented with friends Kris Kristofferson and Roger Miller, both unknown songwriters at that time.