How Nashville’s vibrant, pioneering R&B community played a significant role in building Music City’s worldwide reputation.

Immerse yourself in the Nashville Sound of the 1960s, where even rock legends came to record.

Drawing from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s exhibit galleries and extensive collection of stage costumes and archival materials, photographs, and moving images, Suiting the Sound: The Rodeo Tailors Who Made Country Stars Shine Brighter examines the dazzling artistry of the Western-wear designers whose couture designs have helped to create an indelible image for country music—one that has inspired fashion far beyond the stages of barn dances and honky-tonks.

The expanded 2024 edition of From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music documents the many ways Black Americans have created, contributed to, and been influenced by country music. From Where I Stand: The Online Experience  is a free resource containing all of the music, essays, photographs, and historical track notes featured in the physical box set, plus educator tools and additional content culled from the Museum’s digital archives.

Within just a few blocks, the offices of record companies, music publishers, and other organizations coalesced to form a unique creative community.