The Nashville Sound

By Paul Hemphill,

Book cover of The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music

Book description

While on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, journalist and novelist Paul Hemphill wrote of that pivotal moment in the late sixties when traditional defenders of the hillbilly roots of country music were confronted by the new influences and business realities of pop music.

The demimonde of the traditional Nashville venues…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Nashville Sound as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Hemphill’s book captures country music in the 1960s.

His portraits of country stars and the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium present vivid images. They are so artful that you feel you have yourself experienced the moment from the inside. This is really an excellent book in any category—a tour de force of nonfiction.

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