John Rumble

Opened in 1957, RCA’s historic Nashville recording studio, known as Studio B, is a musical landmark like few others. Its reputation was built by some of the most important producers and artists in country and pop music. During its heyday, from 1957 to 1977, approximately 18,000 sessions were recorded within the studio’s walls, including more than 200 songs by Elvis Presley. The studio’s opening marked a milestone in Nashville’s development as a music center, and those many hits spread Nashville’s reputation as Music City worldwide. Generously illustrated with more than 200 rare photos from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s archives, this book traces the full story of RCA Studio B-from its beginnings to its continued use today as both working studio and tourist attraction.

Chet Atkins is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential and universally admired guitarists of all time. The high standards he set as a performer, session player, solo recording artist, record producer, and label executive have inspired, comforted, and gladdened the hearts of generations. Published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition Chet Atkins: Certified Guitar Player, this book examines the fascinating career of one of America’s most influential musicians. In addition to images of many rare treasures saved by Atkins and his family, the book includes words from, among others, three of Atkins’s four fellow Certified Guitar Players: Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, and Steve Wariner.

Husband and wife Boudleaux and Felice Bryant wrote more than six thousand songs together in a wide variety of musical styles. Many would come to be regarded as pop and country classics. These include the biggest hits of the Everly Brothers, such as "Bye Bye Love," "Wake Up Little Susie," and "All I Have to Do Is Dream." As Nashville's first full-time professional songwriters, the Bryants created enduring compositions that ranged from hard-country songs to tunes of romance and heartbreak, and even the widely known Tennessee state song "Rocky Top." This book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition We Could: The Songwriting Artistry of Boudleaux and Felice Bryant. It contains more than 100 rare personal photographs and reproductions of song manuscripts, and it celebrates their remarkable musical achievements and endearing love story

The stripped-down country sounds that Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and their California cohorts crafted in the 1950s and ’60s still reverberate in the twenty-first century. The edgy music created in the oil town of Bakersfield, and the great musicians identified with it, have long been a distinctive part of the fabric of country music. Written by Bakersfield country experts Scott B. Bomar, Randy Poe, and Robert Price, this book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibition The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country. The book examines one of America’s most exciting and influential music scenes. In its pages, readers will find more than 140 rare photographs, including some of the rare treasures saved by Bakersfield veterans and their friends, family members, and business associates, which were on display in the exhibition. The book includes an introduction by country music star Dwight Yoakam.