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MUSIC CITY REVIEWS
Music City is known all over the world for the music that is created, recorded, performed and lived here. It's written about in magazines, books and websites. Here are just a few of those Music City reviews. Take a look.
- MSN Travel ranked Nashville 13th on the Coolest North American Cities list. Read it.
- Music City's July 4th Celebration was named #2 in the nation for July 4th Booms With A View from aol.com!
- The Hits Start Here - Music City's songwriter industry is revealed and revered in the June issue of Spirit magazine. Read it here.
- National and International Best-Selling book Who's Your City, written by Richard Florida, explores "How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life." Music City is used as an example of that exploration.
- "Today it [Nashville] is home to much of the world's best studio talent and has eclipsed even New York and LA as the place for music writing, recording, and publishing."
- To further emphasize the above, the author spoke to Jack White, founder of The White Stripes, and wrote of his response when asked why he relocated from Detroit to Nashville: "Like Silicon Valley, it was a place the best and the brightest in their field could collaborate with other top talent and draw from a world-class economic infrastructure."
- "In fact you could easily keep yourself busy for a week in Nashville while avoiding country music altogether, as long as you didn't walk down Broadway after dark. Buy you wouldn't want to miss that experience even if you're not a fan - the strip of honky-tonks is lively and fun. We don't even go inside any bars, yet we hear a different band every few steps while enjoying a slow stroll. Reminds me of Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
- The Washington Post, 5/18/08
- "There is a really vibrant creative city here across all types of music from country to classical. We have what I think is an unparalleled creative community that virtually no other city can hold a candle to."
- Kyle Young, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Director, as quoted in Steinway & Sons, Winter 2007
- “Nashville is Music City in the broadest sense. It’s not just
about country music in this legendary capital city. It’s about gospel
and bluegrass; Christian and alternative; jazz and the blues; rock ‘n’
roll and classical. The city’s cadence is as diverse as the music it
births. The rhythms that flow through its veins are created by some of
the world’s most talented singers and musicians.”
- Challenge Magazine, November 2007
- "Like a chef's skillful blending of spice and sugar, smooth texture and rough, Nashville blends popular music and the glitter of solid gold Cadillacs with the best of classical music and fine art."
- Steinway & Sons, Winter 2007
- "Nashville is called Music City, and for good reason. I found music
drifting around every corner in this beautiful town. You may think only
country music would be available - not so - every style and flavor has
rooted here and is all growing together very nicely."
- Macomb Observer, December 2007
- "...everyone expects to hear music. Musicians play free concerts at the airport. Recording devices hang on light poles at intersections so pedestrians do not have to endure a red light in silence. The clubs and bars along Broadway open at 10 in the morning and reluctantly shut their doors around 2 a.m. After all, Nashville became Music City when first the Grand Ole Opry and then a wave of performance venues and recording studios brought musicians of all kinds flooding into the city."
- Steinway & Sons, Winter 2007
