Orbison became one of the first recording artists to popularize the Nashville Sound, a trend of country and pop crossover music that used session musicians dubbed the A-Team: guitarists Grady Martin, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton, and Bob Moore ; pianists Floyd Cramer or Hargus " Pig " Robbins ; drummer Buddy Harman ; and backup vocals by the Jordanaires or the Anita Kerr Singers.

Among the nation's first bands that played Christian rock was The Crusaders, a Southern Californian garage rock band, whose November 1966 Tower Records album Make a Joyful Noise with Drums and Guitars is considered one of the first gospel rock releases, or even " the first record of Christian rock ", and Mind Garage, " arguably the first band of its kind ", whose 1967 Electric Liturgy was recorded in 1969 at RCA's " Nashville Sound " studio.

Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

The Bakersfield Sound was developing in the area as a reaction against the over-produced honky tonk of the Nashville Sound.

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There were 223 casualties, and the Nashville was forced to return to Pearl Harbor and then to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, for repairs.

At the beginning of the decade, the countrypolitan — an offshoot of the earlier " Nashville Sound " of the late 1950s and early 1960s — and the honky-tonk fused Bakersfield Sound were some of the more popular styles.

However, an even greater transition occurred after Waylon Jennings was able to secure his own recording rights, and began the trend of bucking the " Nashville Sound.

In the 1960s, Guitarist Chet Atkins, born in Luttrell, Tennessee but raised in Hamilton, Georgia, drew on Jazz and Pop music to help create the smoother Country music style known as the Nashville Sound, expanding Country music's appeal to adult pop fans.

The album was recorded at Seedy Underbelly Studios and Oarfin Studios in Minneapolis and the Sound Kitchen in Nashville.

Sherrill helped Rich refashion himself as a Nashville Sound balladeer during an era when old rock n ' rollers like Jerry Lee Lewis and Conway Twitty were finding a new musical home in the country and western format.

" Some considered it an act of rebellion against the Music Row-controlled Nashville Sound.

The recording took place at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville, Tennessee from December 1999 through February 2000.

Another well-known group of session musicians is called The Nashville A-Team and is made up of A-list studio musicians who recorded during the Nashville Sound era.

Patterson hit well with the AAA affiliate Nashville Sound, batting. 331 with a. 963 OPS over 29 games and 124 at-bats.

Splitting time between touring and recording, the band spent 41 days at Easy Eye Sound Studio, which was opened in 2010 by Auerbach in the duo's new hometown of Nashville, Tennessee.

This style, pioneered by Reeves and Arnold, became known as the " Nashville Sound ".

Michaels has appeared in several movies and TV shows, including as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star which led to his country influenced rock album Freedom of Sound in 2005.

Connie Smith's sound is defined by the Nashville Sound musical style, primarily during her breakthrough years in the 1960s.

While most Nashville Sound recordings of the time mainly included full orchestras, Smith's sound remained more traditional with its use of steel guitar and her twangy vocals, while still featuring some pop-influenced instrumentation to provide urban pop appeal.

* Mind Garage recorded by Elvis Presley's sound engineer Tom Pick and Recording technician Roy Shockley in RCA's " Nashville Sound " studio, under the management of Chet Atkins.

In Nashville, a school was dynamited.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

In these terms, the `` economic withdrawal '' of the Negroes of Nashville, Tennessee, from trading in the center city, for example, was clearly justified, since these distinctions do not require that only people subjectively guilty be singled out.

At the time of his appointment, his destination Nashville had been evacuated by the Confederates after the fall of Ft. Donelson, and the government which he was displacing had fled to Memphis.

After the election Johnson was most anxious to complete the re-establishment of civil government in Tennessee ; Union forces brought the war to an end in that state with their victory in the Battle of Nashville in December.

Wills did not fit into the popular Nashville country and western stations, although he was usually labeled " country and western ".

Chester Burton " Chet " Atkins ( June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001 ) was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country's appeal to adult pop music fans as well.

That single, " Guitar Blues ", was fairly progressive, including as it did, a clarinet solo by Nashville dance band musician Dutch McMillan with Owen Bradley on piano.

This became known as the Nashville sound which Atkins said was a label created by the media attached to a style of recording done during that period to keep country ( and their jobs ) viable.

( At the time there was only one RCA studio in Nashville, with no letter designation.

Atkins was buried at Harpeth Hills Memory Gardens in Nashville.

The song was written by Nashville songwriter Cy Coben, a friend of Atkins.

At thirteen, she was recording ( the single " Puppy Love ") on a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records, and appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

At a time when television had not yet embraced country and Western music, Sullivan was adamant about featuring Nashville performers on his program.

The series was taped at WLAC-TV ( now WTVF ) and Opryland USA in Nashville.

* The Million Dollar Band: This was a jam-session segment, airing from 1980 through 1988, composed of legendary Nashville musicians Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Roy Clark, Floyd Cramer, Charlie McCoy, Danny Davis, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble.

The musical version of The Nutty Professor was scheduled for a pre-Broadway tryout to open in Nashville on July 24, 2012 and played for seven weeks.

The body was placed on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad car and transported to Richmond.

The Brewers started April on a solid winning note, but suffered two big blows in their pitching rotation when Dave Bush was demoted to AAA Nashville, and Yovani Gallardo suffered a potential season ending knee injury.

The 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1, 589, 934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state.

The town of Nashville was founded by James Robertson, John Donelson, and a party of Overmountain Men in 1779, near the original Cumberland settlement of Fort Nashborough.

In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.

By 1860, when the first rumblings of secession began to be heard across the South, antebellum Nashville was a very prosperous city.