Stacy's Music Row Report

Stacy's Music Row Report
Founded	1992
Owner	Stacy Harris
Website	http://stacyharris.com
Registration	No
Current status	Active

Founder, Publisher and Executive Editor of Stacy's Music Row Report, Stacy Harris was recognized by The Nashville Business Journal (in its April 17-21, 1995 edition) for pioneering Music Row coverage on the Internet.

Stacy began her online career as a country-music columnist when she wrote an opinion column for Ben Cunningham's nashville.com bulletin board. With the advent of user-friendly expansion of the Internet, Stacy tweaked and retitled her column Stacy On Line and the column became a feature of Music Row-based Nashville Music Connection/Country On Line.

As the buzz about what, decades later, remains Nashville's only independent source of country-music news and informed opinion grew, Stacy Harris broadened her horizons. She added music and book reviews to the mix of what became Stacy's Music Row Report and her enterprise caught the interest of Geocities where her expanded Report was featured before Stacy accepted an offer from Doug Hass to partner with' roughstock.com.

When Hass sold Roughstock, the new publisher urged Stacy to stay on, presenting her with a contract. The "catch" was that Stacy would have to forfeit her copyright; something she refused to do.

Another door opened when Stacy partnered with Steve Brooks to create countrymusicreport.com.

While Stacy's partnerships afforded her increased visibility and income, by the time Brooks became suddenly seriously (and shortly thereafter fatally) ill, the experience Stacy had long since attained gave her the confidence to strike out on her own.

Regrouping, Stacy Harris established an even more lucrative subscription-based form of instantaneous news alerts and expanded proprietary content while, as time and readers' revenue from site-linked Amazon purchases commissions permit, updating the advertiser-supported "free site" at stacyharris.com as a "loss leader."

As such, Stacy's Music Row Report has no competition. Where other country-music websites, blogs and newsletters are beholden to Music Row's gatekeepers, the Country Music Association, the Country Music Foundation, the industry's publicists and advertisers in a position to dictate content, by virtue of her proprietary business model Stacy is uniquely immune from such constraints.

The result is that Stacy's Music Row Report remains Nashville's only independent source of country-music news, reviews, investigative journalism, original content and informed opinion.

While Stacy's Music Row Report is reading best suited to those whose comfort level is not threatened by debunking of the country-music industry mythology permeating Music Row, Stacy welcomes feedback, especially from those who disagree with her.

Happy to print such divergent opinions as long as they are not offered anonymously (though Stacy withholds tipsters' names upon request), Stacy's Music Row Report's official website links to separate pages of unsolicited feedback from industry members, media and a world-wide audience of fans.

Music Row's only currently active multimedia print and broadcast journalist, who has continuously covered the country-music industry for over a record-setting half-century, Stacy Harris remains fearless. Stacy is most proud of the following articles linked to Stacy's Music Row Report : "What the Country Music Foundation Doesn't Want You to Know," "The Country Music Association: What is it Afraid of?," "How Bill Ivey's Letter to the Editor Bought Up to $250,000 Worth of Silence," "Kirt Webster PR Six Years After Its Dissolution: An Update" (further updating Stacy Harris' original article, "Kirt Webster: The Demise of Webster PR: An Unprecedented Investigation, Sex Scandal & Update: The Status of Austin Rick's Book, Venmo Prostitution?, A Leaked WTVF-TV Internal Memo, A Veiled Threat..." and "Tom T. Hall's Cause of Death: A Premonition, Autopsy Report and the Resistance to Setting the Record Straight."

Stacy prides herself on fairness and producing a website where those who come for the few must prepare to face the many.