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Nashville Sound/New Country

Author: RENEE JINKS

During the 1950s and 1960s there was a change in musical tastes. So far as country music was concerned, innovators such as Chet ATKINS , Paul Cohen , Don Law , and brothers Owen and Harold Bradley, gave birth to a new style of music that became known as the Nashville Sound.

The term Nashville Sound can be used to mean several things. First, it is a particular style of recording. Second, it refers to an era in the emergence of Nashville as a...

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