CR027/PH13 - Billy Sherrill's Nashville Sound

Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music

Tyler Mahan Coe

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🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

What if the first serious opinions that millions of rock music fans formed about country music were based on a few massive errors which then got passed down to future generations? 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.

Billy Sherrill'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 the genre. But anyone who hears the name Billy Sherrill and thinks anything less than "he's one of the most important producers in the history of Nashville, who made some of the greatest and most influential records of all time in any genre" has not been given enough information about the man or the music. That changes today.

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0:00.0	Alright, I've got to talk to you about something I can't believe I get to say.
0:05.0	The incredible artist Wayne White contacted me to donate the use of one of his original
0:10.6	sketches for Cocaine and Rhynestone's merch.
0:13.6	If you're not already following Wayne on Instagram, his sketches of classic country artists
0:18.6	are consistently the most mind-blowing art anyone post on that app, so make sure to go
0:23.5	look at all of those after hitting up Cocaine at Rhynestone's dot com following the link to the
0:28.7	merch store and seeing the incredible design he has made available to you through me.
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