Learn About Music Row in Nashville

Series Summary

Nashville is one of the music capitals of the world. Hundreds of classic albums by the likes of Johnny Cash, Pasty Cline, Elvis and many other stars of American music have been recorded here. To this day, Nashville continues to be home to some of the best studios and session musicians around. But trying to record an album in this town can be an intimidating prospect. But now Expert Village offers this great series to walk you through the process.

You will learn all you need to know about recording an album in Nashville in this free series of studio recording lessons from our experienced studio manager and head engineer. Chris Latham takes you on a brief tour of Music Row and then gets down to the brass tacks of the recording process. How much money do you need to record an album here? How much for the studio time? How much for the session musicians? Chris shares his years of experience with his advice on how to pick your musicians, and also gives you insight into the process of recording an album. He talks about how tracks are edited and mixed, and gives you tips on how to get just the vocal sound you are looking for. Watch this series and become a Nashville insider in seventeen short video clips!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Chris Latham and we're here today at EMI Music Publishing's Nashville recording studio on Music Row with Expert Village. In this first segment, I want to tell you a little bit first about Music Row. It's a little three block wide, five or six block long segment of south Nashville where all of country music history has happened for the past fifty years. There are recording studios literally on every corner, not to mention the off the Row areas that are developing all around Nashville. And as recording costs get cheaper and cheaper, more and more people have studios in their homes. Nashville just has a high concentration of studios. Depending on what kind of project you're doing, from a song demo up to a master project, there are all sorts of levels of studios and of course all sorts of costs involved, depending on what you're trying to accomplish."