Where is Music Row?

The start of a journey -- Looking for Music Row -- a title chosen because I was asked so many times in Nashville, "where is Music Row?"

There is no street in Music City named Music Row. It's a small section of the city of Nashville, Tennessee, four blocks wide and seven blocks long. It's probably spread out further that that now, although Sixteenth and Seventeenth Avenue are still the center.

I actually had an office for years in the very center of that area -- Music Square South. Don't look for that on the map. Most show it as Grand. Don't look for streets named Sixteenth or Seventeenth either. They are officially Music Square East and Music Square West. Only no one of the Row (which, as I said, doesn't really exist) knows them by those names. Could this possibly be why the thousands who come to Nashville every year hoping to make it in music can't find Music Row?

My co-writer and I wrote for publications as Brooks Johnson, a combination of our names. She also wrote as "Jeannie J." Together we published a weekly newsletter on the music industry for years. We hope to capture the magic of that time in a series of books based in that small neighborhood called Music Row. We hope you'll join us on our quest "Looking for Music Row."