In 1978, bands like Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees were on the cutting edge of music and pop culture, gigging out at a London club called The Nashville Rooms, and The Clash was making Memphis-style pompadours look pretty fuckin’ cool. But if we’re to use, say, Robert Altman’s Nashville as a barometer, Music City wasn’t all that fashionable in the mid- to late '70s. You could just as easily make that case with the video above, a short documentary capturing Music Row circa 1978 that comes courtesy of the
Historic Films Archive.
