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Don't underestimate Nashville, here are a few:
-Garth Brooks
-Willie Nelson
-Shania Twain
-Dolly Parton
-Jimi Hendrix
-Johnny Cash
-Towns van Zandt
-Little Richard
-Donna Summer
-Kesha
-Carrie Underwood
-Taylor Swift
-Faith Hill
-Kings of Leon
-Martina McBride
Nashville can be a convenient city to do music business in, but most of these people are not home grown talent, but transient transplants. Garth Brooks & Kings Of Leon are both from Oklahoma, Shania Twain is a Canadian, Willie Nelson is from Texas and had to leave Nashville to get his big break, Johnny Cash is from East Ark. and found fame in Memphis & Dolly Parton is from East TN.
There is no music capital. New York City has hip-hop, Nashville with country, Memphis with blues, and New Orleans with jazz. What did LA create? And where did rock music originate?
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True, but if we're talking about "The Music Capital," where the musicians reside, record, and conduct their business is really more important than where they were born. Any album that Jack White is involved with (including the White Stripes although I doubt they'll do another one) will more than likely be recorded at his studio in Nashville, not Detroit.
That is not true. Its really more about where someone is raised because that's what makes them who they are and music is influenced by the artists' life experiences a lot of times. He spent most of his life in the Indian Village neighborhood, I believe, so that makes him from here.
All of them, subtracting DC and adding Chicago, New Orleans, and Memphis - at different points during the 20th century. Each of those would or could have been the capital (or one of two) for periods of at least a couple decades.
Probably a second level would be San Francisco (Summer of Love), Atlanta (hip hop), Seattle (grunge), and Austin, though each of those are a bit less broad in one fashion or another than what you got from the others.
And what you got from the others would have been blues, jazz, country, rock, bluegrass, Broadway - which, in various permutations and combinations are what everything else derives from.
Out of curiosity, what type of music is San Francisco known for?
1960s through the present day, all of these are San Fran or Oakland:
Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Moby Grape
Sly & The Family Stone
Blue Cheer
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Great Society
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Quicksilver Messenger Service
The Flamin' Groovies
The Grateful Dead
The Steve Miller Band
4 Non-Blondes
Toni! Toni! Tone!
Journey
American Music Club
Boz Scaggs
Chris Isaak
Country Joe & The Fish
Credence Clearwater Revival
Huey Lewis & The News / Clover
Faith No More
Imperial Teen
Tower Of Power
The Dead Kennedys
Green Day
Con Funk Shun
Exodus
Hot Tuna
AFI
Santana
Primus
Counting Crows
Blackalicious
Digital Underground
The Donnas
The Doobie Brothers
High On Fire
The Greg Kihn Band
Xiu Xiu
Pansy Division
The Joy Of Cooking
The Mr. T Experience
En Vogue
Graham Central Station
Beulah
Jellyfish
Chocolate Watchband
NOFX
Operation Ivy
Rancid
MC Hammer
The Pointer Sisters
Too Short
All of these formed either in SF, Oakland, Berkeley, or the Peninsula. A few of them relocated elsewhere, and a few of them (Janis Joplin and the members of The Doobie Brothers) were originally from somewhere else.
I answered the thread earlier, there is NO music capital. New York and LA didn't create everything people. Neither did Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Detroit, Memphis or Nashville. Every city played a big role in the production of the music industry as a whole, which is why we have the variety of Chicago house music to New Orleans bounce.
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