CR016/PH02 – Owen Bradley's Nashville Sound

What if the first serious books about country music contained a few massive errors which were then repeated by nearly everyone who's since used those books as a source? How long do you think it would take for society to build a fundamentally flawed history of an entire genre on top of such a foundation? Fifty years? Well, that's exactly what happened... Owen Bradley's name means nothing to many country music fans. Some recognize it from the album credits of a few of their favorite country artists. Others manage to cast him as an enemy of country music. But anyone who hears the name Owen Bradley and thinks anything less than "he's the single most important producer in the history of Nashville, who made some of the greatest and most influential records of all time in any genre" simply has not been given enough information about the man or the music. That changes today.

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CR016/PH02 – Owen Bradley's Nashville Sound is an episode from Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music by Tyler Mahan Coe.

This episode is 02:17:56 long.

This episode was published on May 4, 2021.

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