Music Row Travel Guide

Just down Demonbreun street out of Downtown is the core of the country music industry, Music Row.  You'll know you've reached it when you pass the sculpture shown to the right of this article.  You can't miss it.  Alan leQuire's "Musica" was commissioned by the city to serve as a landmark... a twenty foot-tall "front door" to music row if you will.  It depicts nine... "spirits" dancing and expressing themselves... musically... naked.  One writer quipped, "it's a reminder how you can lose your shirt and your pants in the country music business."

Immortalized in song and verse, this pair of one-way streets houses offices for just about every major country record label, publishing company and industry-related venture that work together to create the music you love to hear.  Don't expect to see your favorite stars.  Although you may spot a hopeful in a cowboy hat, there's not a lot of star-gazing that happens on the row. 

Notable landmarks are the Word Entertainment building - formerly owned by Capitol Records, this building is now the home of the Christian music company who brings you Word Records and Word Music.  Curb Records and the RCA Studio B are easy to spot too.  Further down the row as you approach Belmont University and the Belmont Mansion, you'll find Ocean Way studios.  Formerly a church building and then a commercial studio, this facility was purchased as a teaching studio for Belmont University students by Mike Curb.