CR016/PH02 – Owen Bradley's Nashville Sound

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

Tyler Mahan Coe

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🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	In 1964, Music Business Magazine released a full issue dedicated to the city of Nashville.
0:09.5	One of the articles contains this quote from Owen Bradley.
0:12.8	You know, music could be compared to ice cream.
0:15.5	When we were kids, there were only about three ice creams, vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry,
0:20.4	and only about two music styles, slow and fast.
0:24.2	The other day, I went into a dipper dan parlor and they had 48 different flavors, including
0:29.5	licorice.
0:30.9	And today, there are many, many flavors of music.
0:33.8	I suppose you call them trends, but they go down in history and frequently are revived.
0:38.6	End quote.
0:39.6	Luke Van Boule連 É Follow the
0:45.3	School of Eden
0:55.9	ention
0:59.9	She knows that's what to do.
1:01.9	I gotta go and lay a suit.
1:04.9	She knows that's what to do.
1:06.9	She rock to the east,
1:08.9	she rock to the west,
1:09.9	but she's a gal that I love and food food.
1:13.9	1955 Little Richard releases Tuti Frudy.
1:17.9	Most listeners assume he's singing about ice cream
1:19.9	or at least comparing the girls he dates to flavors of ice cream.
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