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William Owen Bradley (October 21, 1915 [1] – January 7, 1998) [2] was an American musician, bandleader and record producer who, along with Chet Atkins, Bob Ferguson, Bill Porter, and Don Law, was a chief architect of the 1950s and 60s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.
Quonset Hut Studio is the nickname given to Bradley Studios, an independent recording studio complex established in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee by brothers Harold and Owen Bradley.
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibit of Owen Bradley's office in 1998. Bradley's Barn was a music recording studio founded in the mid-1960s by Owen Bradley.The studio was built in a converted barn on farmland in the Nashville suburb of Mount Juliet, and was the site of numerous notable recordings by artists including Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty, The Beau Brummels, J. J. Cale, Bill ...
With its live room measuring 75 x 45 feet with 25 foot high ceiling, [4] it was the largest studio room in Nashville when it opened. [5] [6] The studio was based on the ideas of Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Harold Bradley. [7] Studios A and B were collectively referred to as the RCA Victor Nashville Sound Studios. [7]
Bradley Studios, RCA Studio B, and later RCA Studio A, were essential locations to the development of the "Nashville Sound." Chet Atkins and the production team at RCA Studio B, notably Steve Sholes , Owen Bradley , Bob Ferguson , and Bill Porter produced studio recordings in the Nashville Sound style, a sophisticated style characterized by ...
The Nashville sound was pioneered by staff at RCA Victor, Columbia Records and Decca Records in Nashville, Tennessee.RCA Victor manager, producer and musician Chet Atkins, and producers Steve Sholes, Owen Bradley and Bob Ferguson, and recording engineer Bill Porter invented the form by replacing elements of the popular honky tonk style (fiddles, steel guitar, nasal lead vocals) with "smooth ...
The Castle was Nashville's first commercial recording studio, producing close to half of the songs on the country music charts between 1947 and 1955. [1] Castle Studio was where Hank Williams recorded almost exclusively for his entire career, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Paul Cohen and Owen Bradley recorded artists like Ernest Tubb , Red Foley , Kitty Wells ...
MCA Nashville started out as the country music division of Decca Records in 1945, founded by Paul Cohen [3] in New York. In 1947, Cohen hired Owen Bradley as his assistant working in Nashville. The country music division moved to Nashville in 1955 as much of the country music recording business was locating there. [4]