Stacy Harris

Stacy Harris is an American publisher, music critic and entertainment entrepreneur. She is the founder and executive editor of Stacy's Music Row Report, and has become internationally known as a writer, country-music and popular culture analyst, media personality, and public speaker. She has been profiled in publications ranging from The Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons (16th Edition) to National Property Law Digests, and has been interviewed by scores of national and international and local news organizations.
Raised in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Harris has covered the Nashville music scene for over 35 years. that now appears online with her entries on Brenda Lee and Carl Perkins, previously available from the publisher only in hardback. Harris' writing is not limited to consumer and general interest publications. In 1999, she was published in Volume 2 of Southern Jewish History, the Southern Jewish Historical Society's academic journal. Her scholarly work was titled "Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row".
Her byline has appeared in such entertainment trade and special interest publications as Billboard, Cash Box, Record World, Music Row, Performance, Amusement Business, CMA Close Up, Goldmine, Satellite Business and Business Week. As a newspaper columnist, Ms. Harris' byline has appeared in The Tennessean ("Nashville Eye") and the Nashville Banner ("Community Voices").
Harris has covered the Music City, USA entertainment scene as a Nashville-based stringer for Newsweek and as a domestic stringer (with Secret Service clearance) for the ABC Radio Network and its affiliates.
Acting
Harris' movie, TV-movie, and stage acting credits include Two Weeks (starring Sally Field), Hank Williams: The Man and His Music, Against the Wall, The Cradle Will Fall, Children of the Winner, Country Gold, The Concrete Cowboys, and the annual SPJ Gridiron Show.
In 2009, Harris assisted Pepsico with recovery from an in-house generated public relations disaster regarding one of the company's products, Mountain Dew, stemming from a February 12 preview of a Diane Sawyer documentary previewed on ABC News' Good Morning America.
Harris' quick action, consultation and recommendations resulted in Pepsico's ability to reposition itself prior to the February 13th telecast of the Sawyer special, titled A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains. Following broadcast of the hour-long investigation, Pepsico built on Harris' recommendations during the February 17th edition of the network's flagship, daily evening newscast World News (with Sawyer substituting for anchor Charles Gibson), next when Sawyer revisited the documentary, on the February 18th edition of Good Morning America and once again during the February 20, 2009 telecast of ABC News' 20/20.
Writing
Harris authored Comedians of Country Music, The Carter Family (children's books published by Lerner Publications), while doing the photo research for these and a series of eight other Lerner-published country music books for children.
A former publicist for several Grand Ole Opry stars, Harris did tour press for MCA, RCA and Con Brio Records. Mercury Records commissioned her to photograph "publicity shots" of its artists and to contribute liner notes. Ms. Harris wrote promotional material for Ron Cornelius' Gateway Entertainment and she supplied CBS Records with archival audio of interviews with its artists.
Ryan Carlson Bernard also cited Harris' work in the footnotes to The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre: A History, 1922-1939, a thesis presented to the faculty of East Tennessee State University's Department of Liberal Studies, "in partial fulfillment of the requirements" for obtaining a 2006 Master's Degree in Liberal Studies at ETSU.<ref name="Tennessee 2010, Pp. 332-3"/>
Bibliography
Books
*Comedians of Country Music (Lerner Publications)
*The Carter Family (Lerner Publications)
*Classic Country (2005)
*The Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide (1993)
*Comedians of Country Music (1978)
*The Carter Family (1978)
*The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998, hardcover) — contributing author
*You Are So Nashville If... (1998, paperback) — contributing author
*Country Music Stars and the Supernatural (1979, paperback) — chapters
Other
*http://www.servinghistory.com/topics/Stacy_Harris

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