Jerry Bradley, a towering Nashville music executive who helped guide the genre into the modern era and bring about its first ever platinum-selling album, has died. He was 83.
Bradley was, the son of Owen Bradley, a prominent producer who helped create and shape the “Nashville Sound” during the Fifties and Sixties. Jerry began his career shadowing his father in the early 1960s, helping Owen record everyone from Loretta Lynn and Webb Pierce to Joan Baez and Gordon Lightfoot at Bradley’s Barn studio outside of Nashville.
At the same time, Bradley was working closely with Chet Atkins, a world-class musician, songwriter, and producer in his own right, as well as a top executive at RCA Nashville. Interested in carving a space for himself in the music industry, Bradley officially joined RCA as Atkins’ assistant in 1970. Just three years later, when Atkins stepped away from RCA following his cancer diagnosis, Bradley replaced him as the head of the label.
Under Bradley’s guidance, RCA Nashville not only remained a country juggernaut, but broke through to the pop mainstream. He signed artists with crossover appeal, like Ronnie Milsap and Alabama, and helped shepherd the recordings of country legends Charley Pride and Dolly Parton, as their careers reached new heights. But arguably his greatest achievement was spearheading the seminal 1976 compilation, the album was definitively less a creative endeavor than a commercial one.
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