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The Nashville sound is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the 1950s in Nashville, Tennessee. It replaced the dominance of the rough honky tonk music with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos" associated with traditional pop.
Countrypolitan -- an outgrowth of the Nashville sound of the '50s -- is among the most commercially-oriented genres of country music. The Nashville sound emerged in the '50s as a way to bring country music to a broad pop audience.
Countrypolitan -- an outgrowth of the Nashville sound of the '50s -- is among the most commercially-oriented genres of country music. The Nashville sound emerged in the '50s as a way to bring country music to a broad pop audience. The movement was led by Chet Atkins, who was the head of RCA Records' country division.
1960s – 70s - Countrypolitan comes on the heals of The Nashville Sound. With the rising popularity of the Bakersfield Sound and the British Invasion, records coming out of Nashville began to develop an even smoother sound with more strings, some background vocals even featured choirs.
Nashville Sound. In Nashville, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, studio producers on Music Row like Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins began experimenting with ways to reach a broader audience:...
In the late 1950s the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll pulled fans away from the country music industry, forcing Nashville producers to search for a sound that could appeal to the whole country and be profitable while still being country, and they found the Nashville Sound.
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A dozen of the most iconic examples of what came to be called "The Nashville Sound", dominated by Gentleman Jim Reeves and the inimitable Patsy Cline, but in...
