Music in real places

Historic RCA Studio B

Music Row, Nashville

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Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.

Historic RCA Studio B — Map source

A low brick studio building with an RCA sign — RCA Studio B, Music Row, Nashville, 2007. Cliff · CC BY 2.0. Existing local rendition. Venue illustration; not a photograph of the historic music event.

A recording room with a piano and microphones under coloured lights — The main recording room at RCA Studio B, 2013. Adinda Uneputty · CC BY-SA 2.0. Existing local rendition. Venue illustration; not a photograph of the historic music event.

Music happened here

Coat of Many Colors: a memory becomes a record

Parton records Coat of Many Colors at RCA Studio B

1971

Dolly Parton made her recording of Coat of Many Colors at RCA Studio B in Nashville in 1971.

Historic RCA Studio B: songs and artists

Reading the place today

Studio B operates as a historic studio attraction. Check its operator’s current arrangements for guided visits; the recording connection does not promise access to original equipment or a recreation of the session.