Nashville Sound – Emerging Artists: Show Program

In the late 1950s and 1960s, Nashville producers smoothed out honky-tonk’s rough edges, adding background vocal groups, strings and crisp studio production. Records by Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves and Eddy Arnold carried country to a much wider audience. Read the full story in our history of country music.

Planning a visit to the city where it started? See our Nashville music guide.