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Nashville sound

noun · first attested 20th century

Nashville answered rock and roll by sanding the twang off country music.

A smooth, string-backed style of country music that emerged in the late 1950s.

Nashville·United States

36.1622°N -86.7744°W · Q23197

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Producers including Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley swapped fiddle and steel guitar for strings and background singers in order to win back a pop audience. The style dominated for a decade and provoked the Bakersfield and outlaw reactions against it.

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