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The Nashville sound is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the 1950s in Nashville, Tennessee. It replaced the dominance of the rough honky tonk music with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos" associated with traditional pop.
- 1950s, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
In the late '60s, the Nashville sound metamorphosed into countrypolitan, which emphasized these kinds of pop production flourishes. Featuring layers of keyboards, guitars, strings, and vocals, countrypolitan records were designed to cross over to pop radio and they frequently did.
In the 1970s, the smooth Nashville Sound had evolved into something even smoother. People called it “Countrypolitan”—and producers hoped it would help their artists cross over to the...
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In the late 1950s the emergence of rock ‘n’ roll pulled fans away from the country music industry, forcing Nashville producers to search for a sound that could appeal to the whole country and be profitable while still being country, and they found the Nashville Sound.
Countrypolitan -- an outgrowth of the Nashville sound of the '50s -- is among the most commercially-oriented genres of country music. The Nashville sound emerged in the '50s as a way to bring country music to a broad pop audience.
Countrypolitan. Other Styles, Other Voices. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Music Row producers began experimenting with ways to reach a broader audience: adding violins, a soft piano, and...
The urbane, pop-friendly Nashville Sound production style emerged in the mid-'50s, taking over from the raw, raucous honky-tonk that was at the head of the country-music table in the late '40s and early '50s and setting the stage for the countrypolitan takeover.
