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Area Code 615 | |
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| Origin | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1969–1973 |
| Labels | Polydor/PolyGram |
Area Code 615 was an American progressive country rock band from Nashville, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, taking its name from the telephone area code, which at the time covered all of Central and Eastern Tennessee.[2] The band was made up of session musicians, recording only two albums before resuming normal session work. Several of the members were backing musicians for Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline albums[3] plus recordings by Billy Swan and The Monkees. They also backed Linda Ronstadt on her Silk Purse album.
Its best-known work was "Stone Fox Chase", which was used as the theme to the British Broadcasting Corporation's music program The Old Grey Whistle Test.[4][2]
Area Code 615 members Wayne Moss, Mac Gayden, and Kenny Buttrey went on to play with Nashville-based Barefoot Jerry,[2] while David Briggs later worked with Elvis Presley and Joan Baez.
The band’s 1969 cover of "Classical Gas" was featured in Irish and UK Guinness TV commercials.
- ^ Carlin, Richard (February 25, 2014). Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. p. 9. ISBN 9781135361044 – via Google Books.
formed Barefoot Jerry to continue the progressive country-rock style of Area Code 615
- ^ a b c Colin Larkin, ed. (1993). The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 21/22. ISBN 0-85112-726-6.
- ^ "Area Code 615 | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ^ Fiegel, Eddi (October 2011). "Wayne Moss: Cinderella Sound, Nashville". Sound On Sound. Retrieved 27 September 2024.