Sound Emporium plays role in Grammy-winning Kacey Musgraves album
Sunday night was a big night for country musician Kacey Musgraves.
Kim Chaudoin |
Country music artist Kacey Musgraves accepts one of four Grammy Awards Sunday night with producers Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian.
Musgraves earned four Grammy Awards, including album of the year for "Golden Hour," best country album, best country solo performance and best country song. The 2019 Grammy Awards were held at Los Angeles' Staples Center.
It was also a big night back in Nashville for Sound Emporium Studios, where parts of Musgraves’ award-winning work — “Golden Hour” — was recorded. In addition to the four Grammys, it also earned album of the year honors at the Country Music Association Awards in November.
“We are very proud to call her studio family and are humbled to have been a small part of this very important record,” said Juanita Copeland, president, chief operating officer and general manager of Sound Emporium Studios. “She not only won Best Country Album, which was incredible, but she won album of the year which covers all genres. That is a huge deal.”
“Her success is also important because she is a female artist, which is very timely with the new campaign that the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has just instituted to encourage more women to work in control rooms as engineers and producers,” she continued. “Many believe that Kacey’s win has set a tone for the future of our industry.”
Country music artist Kacey Musgraves recorded portions of her Grammy-winning album "Golden Hour" at Sound Emporium Studios.
Musgraves, who has released four albums, previously cut her hit single “Follow Your Arrow” for her ”Same Trailer Different Park” album at Sound Emporium Studios.
This is the third Grammy album of the year title awarded to a project produced at Sound Emporium Studios in recent years. In addition to “Golden Hour,” the “O Brother Where Art Thou” soundtrack (2001) and “Raising Sand” (2008), the collaboration between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
“We are very proud and work very hard to keep the Sound Emporium an amazing, relevant studio that artists like Kacey Musgraves and her team want to be in to record,” said Copeland. “It’s a very big deal and an honor for us when works that come through this studio are considered at the top of the industry.”
Sound Emporium Studios, which has been one of Nashville’s most vibrant recording studios for 50 years, was gifted to Lipscomb University in 2017. Lipscomb is very committed to preserving the history of the studios. Sound Emporium Studios provides valuable experiences and resources for students in the University’s George Shinn College of Entertainment & the Arts.
Sound Emporium Studios has been a vital part of Nashville's music industry for more than 50 years.
The Sound Emporium has been a vital part of Nashville’s international claim to fame as Music City, U.S.A., and has been the place that numerous music legends have entrusted with their recording projects for 50 years. In 1969, “Cowboy Jack” Clement, who produced artists such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich and Johnny Cash at Memphis’ famed Sun Records, built the A room, which became the sister studio to the already world-famous, Studio B, where projects like Kenny Rogers “Gambler” and Ray Stevens “Everything Is Beautiful”, and it was known as Jack Clement Recording Studios. It was the first of its kind in the city. In 1979, Clement sold the studio and the name changed to the Sound Emporium. Producer Garth Fundis purchased the studio in 1992, and in 2011 sold it to George Shinn, former owner of the NBA franchise Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets.
One of Nashville’s most iconic recording studios, numerous artists have produced music within the Sound Emporium’s walls, including Kesha, Pop Evil, Little Big Town, Pharrell Williams, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, John Denver, Keith Whitley, New Grass Revival, REM, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Yo-Yo Ma, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss, Taylor Swift, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, Cyndi Lauper, Keith Urban, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Merle Haggard, Cole Swindell, Kaleo, Cage The Elephant, Jimmy Buffett, St. Paul and the Broken Bones and numerous others. In addition, film soundtracks such as O’ Brother Where Art Thou, Cold Mountain and Walk the Line have been recorded at the Sound Emporium under the guidance of Grammy-winning producer T-Bone Burnett.
For more information about Sound Emporium Studios, visit www.soundemporiumstudios.com.
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