re: 5 of the top 10 music cities in the nation are all within SEC territory

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Not at all. Nashville ruined country music and made it super commercialized and shitty.

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If you know nothing about a subject please don’t open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Owensboro, Ky....Bluegrass Capitol of the World and home to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum...also home of ROMP, one of the largest 4 day Bluegrass festivals in the country. Personally I'm a metalhead

Garth and George are the kings of country music.

I wouldn’t live there if you paid me but any list of great music cities has to have Los Angeles (and surrounding cities in SoCal) on it.

Almost every genre and era has a superstar or super group from SoCal. The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Eagles, N.W.A., Van Halen, Dave Brubeck, Etta James, Toto, Metallica, Bread, The Doors, Rage Against the Machine (commies, I know), Red Hot Chili Peppers and lots more. Steely Dan were from the East but recorded many of their greatest albums in Los Angeles using some the best session players of all time, many of whom were based there.

P.S. I’ll add another shoutout to Muscle Shoals and the Swampers.

If someone coded an AI bot to be retarded, this is what it would write.

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Whoever wrote this is as dumb as the people who decided to put the rock and roll hall of fame in Cleveland. Cleveland should not be on this or any other list

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Maybe you should learn some history. Cleveland's influence on rock music isn't about artists. Alan Freed coined the phrase Rock n Roll and was the most influential DJ early on of the genre. The first rock concert was held in Cleveland and WMMS is a legendary rock radio station which had trmendous influence on which artists got exposure.

Your take on Detroit is just idiotic. The Motown era is one of the great eras in music history.

Dyess, AR is number 11

Vince Gill is another Okie.

Atlanta is the birthplace of country music. The first commercial recording of what would become country music was produced in Atlanta and was the first million record country hit in history. WSB Radio was the only mega radio station in the south at the time...until the late 1920s if you were in the south and listening to the radio past about 6 in the evening you were listening to WSB Radio in Atlanta. The recording industry was well established by the time Nashville became "Music City USA". It seems Nashville has been chasing Atlanta, along with the rest of the south, since the end of the war of northern aggression...

Its pretty telling to note that the building credited with being the birthplace of the country music recording industry was torn down with little fanfare in 2019 to make room for a major hotel. That's how far ahead of Nashville Atlanta is....Atlanta has nearly forgot about being the birthplace of modern country music while it is Nashville's only industry of note...

Atlanta was also a meca for blues recording artists and labels...through the early 1940s blues musicians from all over the south recorded at the labels that were prolific in Atlanta. Atlanta was also home to the only performances in the south of major symphonies from all over the world. They played in Atlanta and were broadcast to the entire south and the lower 48 on the only mega station in the south at the time. Atlanta's roots in the music industry is as deep as any cities, the only reason it is overlooked is because Atlanta is diversified where others are nothing but music.