あらすじ
If you're a County Music fan, you've seen glimpses perhaps of it on TV shows like Nashville and movies like Walk the Line, but never before have fans of music's biggest-selling genre been invited inside the heart of the creative nerve centers where their favorite # 1 hits are brought to life, the recording studio Inside the pages of BEHIND THE BOARDS: NASHVILLE, Country music fans for the first time ever are given a front-row seat inside Music Row's most famous recording studios on tours narrated by the town's BIGGEST record producers. Regaling readers with exclusive, first-hand stories behind the recording of generations of the biggest # chart-toppers by Country's biggest stars, including LUKE BRYAN, TAYLOR SWIFT, TIM McGRAW, CARRIE UNDERWOOD, LADY ANTEBELLUM, JASON ALDEAN, FAITH HILL, SAM HUNT, MIRANDA LAMBERT, KEITH URBAN, THE BAND PERRY, THOMAS RHETT, MAREN MORRIS, CHRIS STAPLETON, KACEY MUSGRAVES, FLORIDA/GEORGIA LINE, THE RASCALL FLATTS, JIMMY BUFFETT, MARTINA McBRIDE, ALABAMA, SARA EVANS, DAN + SHAY, RAYLYNNE, BLAKE SHELTON, DOLLY PARTON, COLE SWINDELL, REBA McENTYRE, ZAC BROWN BAND, KENNY CHESNEY, BRAD PAISLEY, OLD DOMINION, ERIC CHURCH, and countless more This V.I.P. tour for readers inside Nashville's biggest studios and the recording careers of Country Music's biggest stars and producers will be a sure hit with everyone from Millennials to Old-School Country fans
作品考察・見どころ
ナッシュビルの録音スタジオという聖域を解き放つ本作は、音楽制作の深淵に迫る一級のドキュメントです。伝説的プロデューサーの証言から名曲誕生の「魔法」を言語化し、芸術と技術が火花を散らす瞬間の熱量を読者に届けます。単なる裏話に留まらない、創作の本質を射抜く情熱的な筆致こそが最大の魅力です。 ドラマ「ナッシュビル」等の映像作品が描く華やかな葛藤に対し、本書は一音に懸ける執念という「音の設計図」を提示します。映像が感情を映し出すなら、本書はテキストならではの解像度で職人魂を深掘りし、メディアを越えた豊かなシナジーを生みます。舞台裏の崇高な営みを知ることで、聴き慣れた旋律はより立体的で感動的な響きへと変貌するでしょう。

