Seriously, the whole music business has been undergoing bad and big changes in the last 20 years at least,.
I remember a quote from James Taylor that he would never have been able to make it in the music world the way it is today.
Then there is Nashville as a city, per se. How will it keep up with all the changes?
Better than you think, says Next City, which is a great internet publication that deals with all aspects of urbanism ( which, especially with its architectural aspects, fascinates me).
Why Nashville Is Still America’s Music City
Warning: This Story May Make You Want to Move to Nashville
The factory that produces one-third of all vinyl records on store shelves today is easy to miss. With its pastel tile facade and retro-industrial trappings, United Record Pressings hides in plain sight in Nashville’s transitioning Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood.
But step inside the 52-year-old plant and the hum of machinery will remind you that this is where 30,000 to 40,000 records are pressed every day but Sunday. The presses run 24 hours for those six days a week, and even at that pace the company has been behind in keeping up with demand, with some orders taking as long as three months to fulfill. To fill the backlog, United Record is racing to complete a second plant that will double its capacity to 60,000 to 80,000 records daily.
No one makes money in music anymore. In a time when the song of the summer (hello “All About That Bass”) can be yours on repeat for 99 cents and an entire album saved to your record cabinet in the cloud for just a few bucks more, the chorus is as familiar as the latest Beyonce tune in most of the United States. But in Nashville, a different trend has taken shape, one that has the city thriving and creative industries booming.
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