Soul Searching at Sony Nashville

Chris Lewis from Nashville’s City Paper elicits one of the most compelling and honest interviews with a sitting label president I have read.

John Grady, president of Sony Music Nashville, comments openly about the havoc that consolidation has wrought on his business, how major labels have to start acting like indies to make make their investments, and what he intends to do with his artist roster to make that all happen.

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