Murder on Music Row is a 1999 song written by Larry Cordle and Larry Shell, and originally recorded by American bluegrass group Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, as the title track from their album Murder on Music Row.[1] It gained fame soon after that when it was recorded as a duet between American country music artists George Strait and Alan Jackson. The song laments the rise of country pop and the accompanying decline of the traditional country music sound; it refers to Music Row, an area in Nashville, Tennessee considered the epicenter of the country music industry.
Although the Strait/Jackson version was not released officially as a single, it received enough unsolicited airplay to reach number 38 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The original Larry Cordle version was awarded the Song of the Year award at the 2000 International Bluegrass Music Awards.
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Although the Strait/Jackson version was not released officially as a single, it received enough unsolicited airplay to reach number 38 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. The original Larry Cordle version was awarded the Song of the Year award at the 2000 International Bluegrass Music Awards.
Larry Cordle
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George Strait and Alan Jackson
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Direk Bentley & George Jones
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