| RCA Studio A | |
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| Alternative names | Grand Victor Sound Javelina Studios Ben's Place |
| General information | |
| Address | 30 Music Square W # 100 |
| Town or city | Nashville, Tennessee |
| Coordinates | 36°08′59″N 86°47′35″W / 36.1496°N 86.7930°W |
RCA Studio A is a music recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee built and founded in 1965 by Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley and Harold Bradley as an addition to the RCA Victor Studio the company established seven years prior. Together these two studios were oknown simply by the name "RCA Victor Nashville Sound Studios" (or "RCA Studios" for short) and became known in the 1960s for becoming an essential factor and location to the development of the musical production style and sound engineering technique known as the Nashville Sound.[1]
RCA utilized the studio until January 1977, after which it was sold to Owen Bradley, who remodeled it and operated the studio as Music City Music Hall until the late 1980s. It was later operated as Javelina Recording Studios. Beginning in 2002, Ben Folds leased the building and operated it as Ben's Place and later Grand Victor Sound.
In 2014, when a local developer planned to demolish the building in order to build condominiums, Folds gathered support to preserve the building, and Mike Curb and local philanthropists collectively purchased the building. The following year, RCA Studio A was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Since 2016, Dave Cobb has leased the studio and used it to operate his Low Country Sound record label imprint.[2]
- ^ "Historic Nashville Studio Saved From Demolition". Rolling Stone. 23 December 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ Gold, Adam (8 February 2018). "Three Years After Being Saved, Studio A Still Makes an Impact". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 5 August 2024.