The distinguished publisher/executive editor and media critic of Stacy's Music Row Report, Stacy Harris is not only one of the earliest authors of country-music books, in general, she holds the distinction of being the earliest author of country-music children's books, in particular. 

No one who is currently active in the country-music business can match, not only Stacy's "firsts" (which include her status as the first creator of original country-music-themed crossword puzzles, favorites of Inside Country Music readers) and her longevity, but also the scope and variety of her pursuits. 

As a country-music authority, historian and expert, Stacy Harris has been published in academic journals, trade and fan publications.  She has served as an editor of several country-music publications and boasts a country radio and television career both behind-the-scenes and in front of the camera/microphone.

A native Minnesotan, Stacy Harris was recognized early on as a future Music Row leader when, in 1972, she was chosen to participate in NARAS-sponsored seminars and workshops designed expressly for that purpose.   When she wasn't touring recording studios, receiving a personally-guided tour of United Record Pressing, courtesy of Joe Talbot, or making mental (if not written) notes as she was introduced to the exhibits and then-limited material from the Country Music Hall of Fame.    At a time when more familiar industry internship opportunities were years away, Stacy and the other future industry leaders were learning the ropes from Music Row stalwarts Henry Romersa, Bob Thompson, Wesley Rose, Bob Beckham, Don Gant, Ronny Light, Jim Malloy, Tom McEntee, Bill Walker, Brad McCuen, Frances Preston, Chic Dougherty and fellow "instructors" Mickey Newbury, Kris Kristofferson, Glenn Sutton and Rory Bourke.

Dubbed "The Doyenne of Music Row," Stacy knew she had arrived when she was listed in Record Row's first "Who's Who" of industry power players: Cedarwood Publishing's Music City Quick Look Phone Numbers.  The creation of country performer, comedian and later Cedarwood song promoter Oral V. "Curley" Rhodes, the prestigious publication provided concise listings of Music Row's key contacts and music-related services for over two decades from its inception during late '60s.

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's online career as a country-music columnist began when she wrote an opinion column for Ben Cunningham's nashville.com bulletin board.  With the 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 Nashville's only independent source of country-music news and informed opinion grew, Stacy 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 partnered with Doug Hass' roughstock.com.  When Roughstock was sold, the new publisher urged Stacy to stay on, presenting her with a contract, but Stacy decided to pursue a partnership with countymusicreport.com where she remained until deciding to pursue a more lucrative subscription-based form of instantaneous news alerts and expanded proprietary content while, as time and readers' revenue from site-linked purchases commissions permit, updating the advertiser-supported "free site" at stacyharris.com as a "loss leader."

A respected internationally-known author, hard copy as well as digital content creator, influencer, country-music historian, academician, music industry and popular culture analyst, pop culture expert, celebrity journalist, ethnomusicologist, columnist, broadcast journalist, feature writer, media personality, tastemaker, public speaker, public policy expert, pundit, arts critic, technical writer, axiologist, TV historian, entertainment entrepreneur, community activist, iconoclast, sexual health pro, trained conflict mediator, research methodologist, lifestyle and relationship expert, scholar and polymath, Stacy Harris has covered the Nashville 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.

Multihyphenate Stacy Harris is also listed in the prestigious Internet Movie Database.  She is among the "Notable People" recognized by the St. Louis Park Historical Society and The World Library Foundation.

A former publicist for several Grand Ole Opry stars, Stacy coordinated tour press for MCA, RCA and Con Brio Records.  Mercury Records commissioned her to photograph "publicity shots" of its artists and to write liner notes and she supplied CBS Records with archival audio of interviews with its artists.

Stacy has also written scripts for The Nashville Network (TNN), The NASCAR Country Radio Network, MJI Broadcasting’s nationally-syndicated Country Quiz program, Biff Collie, Gerry House and Nashville International.  

Known for her versatility, she has written for several entertainment trade and special interest publications, including Billboard, Cash Box, Record World, Amusement Business, Performance, CMA Close Up, Satellite Business, Goldmine and Music Row.

A former editor of Country Song Roundup, Country Spirit, Spotlight on Country, Trading Posts, Prairie Country News and the Upper Midwest Country& Western News-Scene magazines, Stacy's writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Business Week,  US, Look, McCall's, Entertainment Weekly, New Woman, Music City News, Country Music, Inside Country Music,  Country Music People, The Journal of Country Music, Tune-In, Dell Horoscope, Great Nonprofits, Hit Parader, Country News, Overdrive, Country Style, Entertainment Express, Take One, Music Galore, Chicago Country, Country Fever, The Current, That's Country, The Nashville Gazette, TV Guide, The Fan Letter, Country Rhythms, The Nashville Scene, Music City Loafer, Don Fitzpatrick's Shop Talk and in North-Central Connecticut's Journal Inquirer.

She motivated readers as a columnist for the Nashville Banner ("Community Voices") and The Tennessean ("Nashville Eye").

Stacy Harris' published books include Classic Country (2005, hardcover); The Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide (1993, paperback); Comedians of Country Music (1978, hardcover); and The Carter Family (1978, hardcover), while her credits as a contributing author include entries in What Brings You Joy (2014, paperback)  The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998, hardcover), You Are So Nashville If... (1998, paperback) and chapters in Country Music Stars and the Supernatural (1979, paperback).  

Stacy's books, which are available worldwide, are featured in the catalogues and collections of The New York Public Library, The Alabama State University Library, The British Library, The National Library of Australia, Book Depository, and in the Carter Collection of Abingdon, Virginia's Washington County Public Library System.

Stacy Harris' contributions have been acknowledged in books written by Taylor Hagood, Alanna Nash,  Robert Oermann,  Jean Roseman,  John S. Dunne, Diane Diekman,  Carl Perkins with David McGee, co-authors Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey, Roberta T. Herrin, George Ella Lyon and Sheila Quinn Oliver, Eileen Sisk,  Ivan Tribe, Rebecca Condon, Steve Eng,  Mary Hurd,  Tom C. Armstrong,  Lol Henderson,  Cliff Linedecker, Barbara Pruett,  Stephen Miller, Shirli Braubar, Dave DiMartino, Anne Fletcher, Staff Sgt. Barry (Ballad of the Green Beret) Sadler, Jessica Hutchings, Warren B. Causey, Lee Stacey,  Marc Leepson,  Mary Hance, Rick Marschall, Carol Fradkin, Mark K. Bauman,  B. Lee Cooper and Rebecca Condon,  Michael Freemark, Peter La Chapelle, Frank Young and by Adam Compton in The Texas State Historical Association's The Handbook of Texas Online.  

Further, authors Karen Breen and Judith Silverman acknowledged Stacy's children's books in the Index to Collective Biographies for Young Readers (1988) while author Hao Huang cited Stacy Harris' oeuvre in Music in the 20th Century, Volume 2 (1999). 

Ryan Carlson Bernard cited Stacy 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.

Stacy established herself as a production consultant for Nashville's WLAC-TV's Digest '79 and Nashville's WNGE-TV's Brian Christie's Starflash, a local and national news monitor for Broadcast News Clips and as an Insider's Viewpoint guest commentator for the Nashville Network (TNN's Country Notes) and for Nashville's WSM-TV.

Formerly a Grand Marshal for Nashville Gas' Christmas Parade (on December 7, 1980), Stacy Harris hosted Nashville Channel 2's Night Owl Theatre.  Her other TV credits include the syndicated Donahue,The Maury Povich Show, Inside Edition (hosted by Bill O'Reilly) and American Journal programs, local Nashville television's Mornings on Five, Noon and Morningwatch, PBS's A Word on Words and A& E's cable television series City Confidential: Murder in Music City.  She also contributed to PBS affiliate WNPT-Nashville's production of Memories of Nashville.

Profiled in publications and directories ranging from The Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons (16th Edition), Billboard's 1988-1989 Country Music Sourcebook & Directory, Who's Who in America (1992- 1996, the 47th-49th editions of the hardback directories found in the reference sections of public, corporate and university libraries, each published in a the prior year) and biennial editions of Who's Who of American Women (1991-1992, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, the 17th- 20th editions, found in the same library reference sections and each published during the first of the two years referenced in its edition title), to National Property Law Digests, Stacy has been interviewed by such national and international news organizations as the Associated Press, BBC World Services, BBC 4 Scotland, CBS Radio News, WKRN-TV News (Nashville), WLAC Radio and WTN Radio (Nashville). Locally, she has been interviewed by Jerry Dahmen, for WSM Radio's I Love Life!,  Phil Williams and Andy Cordan for WKRN-TV News, LaTonya Turner for WSMV-TV News and Miranda Cohen, Skye Arnold and Liane Jackson for Fox 17 News.

Stacy Harris' movie, TV-movie and stage acting credits include 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, as well as an unsold pilot, The Hatfields and the McCoys.

She has been featured in national commercials for Old Style Beer and White Rain and in a regional ad for the Southern Olds Family automobile dealerships. She modeled for the Backstage hair salons chain.

A Nashville Banner book reviewer for 22 years, Stacy Harris was the last person to interview Hee Haw/Grand Ole Opry star David "Stringbean* Akeman within hours of Akeman's murder. That now-famous interview became the front-page lead story for the Banner's November 12, 1973 edition (reprised by Francis Xavier "Red" O'Donnell in his Nashville Report column appearing in the November 24, 1973 edition of Record World)  and the tape of the historic event- which famed producer/session player Fred Carter, Jr. (a/k/a Deana Carter's father) wanted to buy from Stacy- is available at no charge to researchers at the Country Music Foundation library in Nashville.  

Stacy has been interviewed by abcnews.com, Poz Magazine, Glenn Whipp, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily News, Chad Dougatz, of launch.com and the Launch.com Radio Network’s New York bureau, Dave Retseck, a reporter for Crystal Lake, Illinois’ Northwest Herald, BBC Business News reporter Kate Noble, WMAQ-TV (Chicago) weekend co-anchor/reporter Anna Davlantes, by Steve Penbrook, arts and entertainment editor for the (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Journal Gazette, Family Chronicles' contributor Barbara Krasner-Khait and  BackStory with American History Guys (VFH radio) hosts Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh.

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Stacy Harris has been the subject of news stories on CNBC,  KTRV-TV (Nampa, Idaho), dvdlocker.com, WHEC-TV (Rochester, New York), WBRC-TV (Birmingham, Alabama), WNYT-TV (Albany, New York), KOB-TV (Albuquerque, New Mexico), WIS-TV (Columbia, South Carolina), WECT-TV (Wilmington, Delaware),  KIVI-TV (Boise, Idaho), KAAL-TV (Austin, Minnesota),  KIII-TV (Corpus Christi, Texas), KOLD-TV (Tucson, Arizona), WBHQ-TV   (Memphis, Tennessee),  KTTC-TV (Rochester, Minnesota),  KTVN-TV (Reno, Nevada), KSRO Radio (Santa  Rosa, California), KTRK-TV (Houston, Texas), WRCB-TV (Chattanooga, Tennessee), WREG-TV (Memphis, Tennessee) and WHNT-TV (Huntsville, Alabama).

A sidekick and permanent guest host for WLAC-Radio's The Bill Karlson Show (later The Bill Karlson Show with Stacy Harris), for two years Stacy assisted Bill in conveying his message of how listeners in 28 states and three countries can Get Top $$ In A Job You Love.

A past-president of the National Entertainment Journalists Association (NEJA), Stacy's other professional memberships include/have included American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), The Country Music Association (CMA), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Mensa, the National Press Club,  the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, (NATAS) and the National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE).

Stacy Harris is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University, having also taken college prep courses at the College of Emporia (earning college credit while still in high school) and songwriting classes at Middle Tennessee State University. (Songwriting credits include Permanent Record, based on a Newsweek essay, copyright 1996.)

A graduate of Nashville's Citizen Police Academy, Stacy is a member of the academy's alumni association.

On June 17, 1998 Stacy Harris was sworn in as a member of the Davidson County Democratic Executive Committee, representing the voters of Nashville's 25th council district (a position to which she was re-elected).

That same year Stacy moderated Jews in Country Music, a panel discussion featuring performers/songwriters Jen Cohen and Andie Jennings, music video writer/producer/director Steve Goldmann, marketing executive Neal Spielberg, musicians Eric Silver and Jonathan Yudkin and attorney specializing in music business clients Ellen McDonald during the Southern Jewish Historical Society's 23rd Annual Conference (at Nashville's Doubletree Hotel). This honor was followed, in 1999, by the Southern Jewish Historical Society's publishing her scholarly essay, Kosher Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row, in Volume II of Southern Jewish History, the historical society's prestigious, academic journal. (Stacy's heavily-footnoted article updated and expanded upon Charles Hirshberg's Nashville's Jewish Newcomers Assert Themselves [Softly], published in the July 22, 1994 issue of The Forward.) 

Kosher Country... has been recognized by the Stanford Graduate School of Education's prestigious Berman Jewish Policy Archive, the American Jewish Archives Journal (Volume LXI 2007, Numbers 1 & 2), academia.com and Missouri State University's Department of English Researcher Mara W. Cohen loannides. 

On March 12, 2000 Stacy Harris became a graduate of the International Bluegrass Music Association's inaugural Leadership Bluegrass class. Following graduation, Stacy is a member of IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Association, notably serving as a mentor for members of Leadership Bluegrass' classes and as a volunteer for the IBMA's annual World of Bluegrass Convention.

A member of the prestigious Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ), Stacy served on the Advisory Committees of the Women of Music Music of Women (WMMW) networking support group and the Christian Country Music Association. 

Featured by ranker.com and followed by wayback machine and Google, Stacy Harris is also listed in the British Country Music Association Yearbook (34th edition.  Shout (the magazine of "Insurgent Thought + Culture") writer Andy Baker interviewed Stacy for his article titled Hey There Cowboy: Is New Country the Ambiguously Gay Genre?, including an introductory paragraph referencing "Stacy Harris, a Nashville-based journalist highly regarded for her exhaustive, behind-the-scenes reporting of the [country-music] industry."

In 2003 Stacy Harris became a contributor to the book review page of The Tennessean and resumed a public speaking career, begun before an adult education creative writing class at Nashville's Harpeth Hall, as the Woodmont Kiwanis Club's guest speaker.

In 2004 she joined a panel of respected program directors, radio personalities and other industry experts as a judge in Dave Schmidt's "The World's First Future Star" contest. The prestigious Mississippi Library Commission selected her book, Comedians of Country Music, along with Robert Krishef's The New Breed and The Grand Ole Opry (books for which she was commissioned as photo researcher), as its Summer Library Program selections. Stacy Harris was also profiled in the September-December issue of The Nashville Musician.   

In 2005, Stacy reprised her role as SPJ Gridiron Show scriptwriter (with the return of the first Gridiron Cabaret in six years), continued her role as Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Association member mentor and became a member of the Academy of Country Music.  

She became a paid mock jurist (following her service as a Davidson County jury foreman) and was cast in the independent film, Two Weeks, starring Sally Field.  

Rounding out 2005, Stacy Harris was Jake Wylde's guest (Cumulus’ Supertalk 99.7 FM) September 17th on WWTN’s Nashville's Nightline talk show. Next, she was interviewed and photographed for a front-page story in the October 2nd issue of USA Today written by Mindy Fetterman and Adam Shell.

On October 5, 2005 Stacy became a nominee for the Minnesota Historical Society's Minnesota 150; a showcase of 150 people, places, things and events that have sparked significant change within the state or beyond Minnesota's borders. The competition and selection process culminated in the celebration of Minnesota’s 150th birthday in 2008.  

In 2006 Stacy Harris drove the advancement of Nashville's reputation for hospitality and service as one of the host-city organizers and coordinators of Hadassah's annual convention.  Carlton Books published Classic Country (an updated version of Stacy's paperback, The Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide) in hardcover.  Stacy assisted Arbitron (Columbia, Maryland) with the compilation of its spring ratings book and she participated in a three-hour interview with her fellow nationally-known HarperCollins author, Shelby Steele, that aired live on April 2nd and was repeated several times on C-SPAN throughout the month.  Stacy also assisted CBS News producers Tamara Weitzman and Jay Young in the production of the 48 Hours Mystery segment titled Cheatin' Heart that aired May 13th and again on October 21st, and she was featured in a TV commercial for Nashville's Rivergate Dental Care running during the summer and fall of 2006.

On October 15, 2006 Stacy Harris was a featured panelist, joining authors Michael Streissguth, Don Cusic and moderator Ronnie Pugh in a discussion of Johnny Cash's career and legacy. The public forum was a feature of the latest in a series of programs at the Nashville Public Library titled Origins: The Evolution of the Nashville Sound.

The year 2007 got off to a great start with the long-awaited Nashville premiere of Two Weeks. It was a year of transition, changes during the first half leading up to the June sale of roughstock.com, where Stacy worked with Doug Hass for the past decade. Though offered a contract by the new owner, Stacy preferred to pursue an enhanced role in a partnership with countrymusicreport.com, the opportunity to develop stacyharris.com and to accelerate her involvement in other projects.

In addition to her consulting work, Stacy was newly-listed in Bacon's Directory of Media Professionals and in the Vault Service (TV Spy) Experts & Sources Directory.   She assisted Edward Lewine, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, with story ideas for both the Times and for Details magazine and was interviewed by Kate Howard for a front-page story in the May 24, 2007 edition of The Tennessean.

The following month The Tennessean's Janell Ross interviewed Stacy Harris for an article in the newspaper's June 17, 2007 issue.

On July 29th she appeared with Naomi Soule and Terry Moses, hosts of St. Louis' 89.1 KCLC Radio’s The Acoustic Edge.  During the phone interview Stacy reflected on the highlights of  her 35 years covering Music Row, sharing her observations on the current state of the country-music business.  Her candor was so well-received by the hosts of the Roots Music Association's Folk Show of the Year and, as reflected by their listeners' positive feedback, that the hosts booked a return appearance for August 26th.  In fact, the program provided such an interesting exchange of dialog that Naomi and Terry asked her to appear with them at least once "every couple of months."

Closing out 2007, Stacy was interviewed by Clay Carey for an article that appeared in the December 17th edition of The Tennessean.

Beginning in January, 2008, Stacy Harris assisted Nariman Farvardin, the University of Maryland's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, and the campus' Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC), with the university's ongoing assessment of the state of the University, as we brainstorm about new initiatives.  Her selection was based upon Professor Farvardin's belief that she had a handle on the university’s main strengths and weaknesses and professor solicited Stacy's input on the changes and initiatives necessary to propel Maryland into the top echelon of public research universities.

The March 3rd Tennessean featured Vivi Hoang's interview with Stacy.  Gannett News Service subsequently reprinted the interview in newspapers nationwide.

On April 23rd Kitty Kelley, the best-selling biographer, interviewed Stacy Harris for Kelley's biography of Oprah Winfrey titled Oprah: A Biography (published April 13, 2010).

On June 2nd WKRN-TV reporter Chris Bundgaard interviewed Stacy for the station's 10 p.m. newscast.

Additionally, veteran Nashville area artist manager Tony Gottlieb, trustee of the late music arranger Lou Busch's estate and administrator trustee of Burning Bush Music, commissioned Stacy to serve as a publicist and spokesperson for the estate which was the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed December 4, 2007 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago against DDB Chicago and Capital One Financial for infringement of the world-famous work, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp), created by Busch and comedian Allan Sherman.   

In 2009, Stacy Harris was instrumental in assisting Pepsico, the international corporation boasting revenue of more than $39 billion, with recovery from an in-house generated public relations disaster re: one of the company's products (Mountain Dew), stemming from a February 12th preview of a Diane Sawyer documentary previewed on ABC News' Good Morning America February 12.     

Due to Stacy's quick action, consultation and recommendations, Pepsico was able 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 was able to build on Stacy's 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.

The Tennessean featured Stacy's comments to Colin Reed at the Gaylord Entertainment Company's 2009 shareholders' meeting in its May 7th online edition and in its May 8th expanded coverage print edition.

On September 23, 2009 Stacy Harris was published in writersweekly.com, the world's "highest circulation freelance writing ezine."  You can also check out her profile in the Boston University Theology Library archives.

In November, 2009 Stacy wrapped up filming her role as a paid extra in Angry Monkey Productions' sequel to the 1992 feature film, Pure Country, A Pure Country Gift, starring Katrina Elam (with a cameo by Pure Country star George Strait).  The working title did not survive post-production and, by the time of its 2010 release to theaters, the movie had been retitled Pure Country 2: The Gift.

With the online expansion of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Stacy contributed an entry on Harlan Howard that now appears online with her entries on Brenda Lee and Carl Perkins previously available from the publisher only in hardback.

In January, 2010 business writer Allison Gorman contacted Stacy for her help.  Always eager to mentor or otherwise help her fellow scribes, Stacy granted a February, 2010 interview with Allison for an article on the country-music business that appeared in the May/June issue of Business TN.

In February, 2010 Stacy completed filming her role as a paid extra in the Screen Gems feature film, Love Don't Let Me Down (since retitled Country Strong), starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw. The film premiered in Nashville in November, 2010.  It opened "wide" on January 7, 2011. 

During the spring of 2010 Stacy Harris was asked to join a "growing number of other Jewish leaders" in establishing the National Museum of American Jewish History and in the summer of 2010 Stacy became one of the Philadelphia museum's founding members.   Also, during the summer of 2010, Stacy was among prominent Nashville community leaders, working in sectors including state government, education and the medical field, whose help was solicited by Jefferson Ockerman, director of the state of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Division of Health Planning, in forming health planning policy.

Adam Shell once again interviewed Stacy Harris in August, 2010  for an article published in the September 2nd issue of USA Today while Joanna Slater interviewed Stacy for an article published in the September 10, 2010 edition of Toronto, Canada's Globe and Mail. 

Stacy Harris has expanded the focus of both the proprietary and "free" editions of Stacy's Music Row Report, with such enhancements as her media section and various reader promotions.  She also serves as a music industry consultant while an taking a more active role in her non-music industry business interests, including a "silent partnership" and her contributions as a member of the Bloomberg Businessweek Advisory Board and the Tennessee Obesity Task Force.  

In November, 2010 Stacy participated in Boston University academician/musicologist’s Paula Bishop’s Everly Brothers survey of Paula’s fellow academicians and musicologists. 

In 2011, media interest in Stacy Harris continued.  She fielded interview requests from WSMV-TV (repeat requests), WTVF-TV, the Associated Press' Sheila Burke and USA Today's Paul Davidson. Stacy's work was acknowledged by Country Music News International.  She was interviewed by The Tennessean's Jennifer Justus for an article published in the newspaper's May 11, 2011 edition and USA Today's Adam Shell for an article published in the national newspaper's August 11, 2011 edition.

Stacy also provided her expertise when requested to participate in an important study of social media.  She was one of a select group of media professionals whose informed opinions were solicited on behalf of  Dr. Minjeong Kang, Principal Investigator, Robert M. Kucharavy, Professor of Public Relations at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, and Heidi Sullivan, Vice President, Media Research, Cision U.S. Inc, the leading media intelligence company. 

Stacy Harris has expanded the focus of both the proprietary and "free" editions of Stacy's Music Row Report, with such enhancements as her media section and various reader promotions.  She also serves as a music industry consultant while an taking a more active role in her non-music industry business interests, including a "silent partnership" and her contributions as a member of the Bloomberg Businessweek Advisory Board and the Tennessee Obesity Task Force.  

In 2012 Stacy Harris revived her acting career, having been cast as a middle school principal and as a Ryman employee in the ABC-TV series, Nashville. Her contribution to the popularity of the 21st century prime-time soap opera and her demonstrated willingness to work 15-hour days with the production company suggests the network series will have more work for her in 2013.   Her work was also cited by the Outlaw Times, the University Press of Mississippi and Richard Thompson in BluegrassToday.com.  Walt Trott credited Stacy for her breaking news exclusives in Music City Beat.

In 2013 Stacy's online presence was accentuated by a listing in (the 29th edition of) Broadcast Interview Source Inc.'s Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons.

In April, 2013, Stacy Harris agreed to serve a one-year term (through March 2014) on GuideStar USA, Inc's User Advisory Panel.  

In June, 2013,  Expanding the Stacy Harris "brand",  accepting an invitation to display some of her work at Pressfolios.com.   Later in the year she is to be featured in a new network "reality" show, originally scheduled to air in February on Country Music Television. 

On July 2, 2013 ABC-TV's archival footage of Stacy Harris' appearance on the first season of the ABC series, Nashville was featured on ABC's The View.  Nearly two months later, Stacy was interviewed by Tom Wilemon for a front-page article published in the September 10, 2013 edition of The Tennessean (posted at tennessean.com the evening before). 

On December 4, 2013 Stacy Harris appeared as a courtroom onlooker, making her Season Two debut (and her third appearance) on episode #9 of the second season of ABC-TV series, Nashville.
 
Stacy Harris began 2014 by granting a New Year's Day interview to WSMV-TV reporter Nancy Amons and by joining the (Vanderbilt University) Chancellor's Lecture Series.   On January 27, 2014 Stacy granted yet another interview (in the form on an oral history) to Stephen Fagin, associate curator of the Sixth Floor Museum, assisting Fagin with the museum's oral history project.  That fall, Kelsey Libert requested and obtained Stacy's assistance with an article titled Get Your Pitch Noticed By A Major Publisher, published in the Harvard Business Review.

Not long afterward Stacy Harris accepted GuideStar USA, Inc's invitation to continue her service to the 501(c)(3) public charity by serving yet another term (through Spring, 2015) on GuideStar USA, Inc's User Advisory Panel, she also answered the call to mentor members of Leadership Bluegrass' Class of 2014.  The year 2014 was highlighted by Stacy’s return to the set of ABC-TV’s Nashville where she taped her Season Three series debut on August 21st (airing October 15, 2014) and the establishment of the Stacy Harris Philanthropic Foundation (a donor-advised fund that provides grants to qualifying charitable, educational and cultural non-profits and not-for-profits).

In 2015 Stacy Harris continued to oversee her Foundation's allocations.  Stacy was publicly praised by Jim Ed Brown on April 14, 2015 for her review of Brown's album, In Style Again.    Also in 2015, Stacy  received more work opportunities on Season Four of ABC-TV’s Nashville (Closing out Season Three with her portrayal of an event planner for a music education foundation benefit, in an episode titled "The Storm Has Just Begun" airing April 22, 2015, Stacy Harris began her run on Season Four of the ABC prime-time series with her role as a Layla Grant and Markus Keen fan on an episode titled "The Slender Thread That Binds Us Here" airing October 14, 2015.)   

On June 27, 2015 Stacy Harris was the only journalist interviewed (by Katie McWhirter)  for the Music Row Oral History Project, a partnership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Music Industry Coalition and the Nashville Public Library.  Stacy spoke "about her career as a journalist on Music Row and how Nashville has changed throughout the years.  She talks about interning at WPLN during the Nixon era when she met Tandy Rice and hired on as a publicist at Top Billing.

"She tells stories about stars she has interviewed over the years, sharing that she interviewed Grand Ole Opry personality David 'Stringbean' Akeman the night he was murdered, a story that kickstarted her career.

"She discusses the changes on Music Row, both in the music industry and in journalism, suggesting that Music Row is less personal now."

Additionally, Stacy Harris agreed to continue assisting Alpha V. Patel, Ph.D., principal investigator for the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study 3.  Recruited in 2012, Stacy completed her third year as a study participant .

During the closing months of 2015 Stacy continued her consulting work with American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen, the multi-year, national initiative focusing on improving Middle Tennessee's graduation rate. 

In 2016 Stacy Harris continued her work of the previous year, taking on a limited number of new projects, notably her latest casting coup: a role as a parent/church-goer in an upcoming feature film release titled Novitiate starring Melissa Leo, Dianna Agron,Margaret Qualley and Marshall Chapman.   That same year Stacy became a contributing essayist, assisting actor/recording artist Paul Petersen in Petersen's compilation of essays for a published eBook, titled My Dad: A Song That Touched America's Heart.   

In 2017, Stacy Harris reunited with  Latonya Turner during a videotaping of NPT Reports  WNPT's Reports: Housing Town Hall during which, joining with fellow concerned community activists, Stacy addressed the issue of affordable housing advocating solutions in the form of rent control and cohousing.   She also made her debut appearance on  CMT's Still the King, portraying a Nashville Predators hockey fan in the cable TV series starring Billy Ray Cyrus.  Amy Corcoran interviewed Stacy for Swaay article titled 10 E-mail Pet Peeves That Grind Our Gears.  By year's end Stacy was one of six "successful professionals" profiled by Student Loan Hero.

Stacy Harris' 2018 got off to a great start when she was interviewed by U.S. News and World Report.  Stacy was also featured in the sixth and final season of CMT's Nashville, notably cast as a VFW member's spouse and as a Langhorne Academy arts patron.  As casting came to an end in April, 2018 (with shows airing through July 26, 2018), Stacy accepted Rachel Lazarus' invitation-only offer to join Time's Opinion Leaders Panel.   Also, in April, Stacy Harris was interviewed for a creditcards.com personal finance feature.

Summer, 2018 marked Stacy's graduation from the Tennessee Department of Corrections' Citizens' Correctional Academy and the beginning of her work as an "ambassador" for the citizens' outreach through her membership in the TDOC Citizens' Correctional Academy's Alumni Association.   She also contributed to Dapper Confidential and, on October 22, 2018 Stacy completed the R.A.D. Basic Physical Defense course, earning activation of R.A.D. Systems' exclusive Lifetime Return and Practice Policy anywhere the Program is being offered, regardless of instructor.

Stacy Harris' acting career continues and in 2019 she has been seen portraying a tardy churchgoer and a protester in episodes of Netflix's suspense thriller series, The Messiah (formerly Old Story).  Stacy makes her debut on Season Seven (Episode 8) of the USA Network reality series Chrisley Knows Best as a senior talent show supporter and as a bingo enthusiast first broadcast on July 9, 2019.

In the wake of sterling recommendations by her colleagues, industry veterans Shelly Mullins and Martha Moore, Stacy was profiled by Alignable.   Receiving similar recognition from Muck Rack and She is the Music, in 2019 Stacy was also honored by country music's internationally-known, award-winning "Cotton King" Sherwin Linton, who recommended her to Diana Pierce.  The Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, in turn, invited Stacy to collaborate with her on Country Music: Made in Minnesota, the documentary Pierce produced on the history of Minnesota's country-music scene.

Mazon featured Stacy in the Donor's Spotlight section of its Fall, 2019 newsletter.

Jeff Rindskopf enlisted "music historian and author Stacy Harris" for her take on the significance of Woodstock at 50, published June 28, 2019.   The following month Stacy turned Tennessean guest columnist with the publication of Tennessee Voices opinion piece that went viral when posted on July 22, 2019 and was published in newsstand and home delivery editions of the Nashville morning daily on July 24, 2019.  

After James Jackson requested Stacy's recommendations, on August 5, 2019 Jackson included these in Boove's list of the best songwriter's books.

In September 2019, Melanie Marten added Stacy Harris' journalist profile to the internationally-circulated PRontheGO Pitching Guide, while Main Street Nashville's staff writer Laurie Everett called on Stacy for her memories of Al Embry.

Stacy is listed in the 73rd edition of Who's Who in America and, in 2020, was one of the notables cited in by Healthline.

After completing her first term as Vice-President/Programming of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Nashville; a position to which she was elected by acclimation, Stacy was unanimously re-elected by a vote of the JGS membership.  She continues to serves on the JGS Board of Directors and is a member of the organization's Executive Council. 

In May, 2020, Wayne Warner publicly thanked Stacy for her review of his book, Backstage Nashville.

In June, 2020 "pioneering" journalist Stacy Harris' scholarship and research were cited by her fellow academicians Shirli Brautbar, Peter La Chapelle and Jessica Hutchings in their Journal of Popular Music Studies article titled The Valley of Dry Bones: The Presence and Perseverance of Jews, Judaism and Jewishness in Country Music and Bluegrass.

Later in the year, Stacy returned to the USA Network reality series Chrisley Knows Best for Season 8 (Episode 3), reprising her role as a bingo enthusiast (OAD July 23, 2020). 

In September, 2020 Stacy Harris successfully completed Hollaback's global, people-powered Stand Up Against Street Harassment training program. She is now empowered with new tools with which to diffuse difficult, unwanted encounters and like disturbances, ensuring equal access to public spaces.  

As 2020 came to a close, Stacy was one of four veteran broadcasters chosen by veteran producer/arranger/composer Tommy Mac to share her insights on the future of commercial radio.

In 2021 Stacy Harris began her third successive term as Vice-President/Programming of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Nashville.  Once again, Stacy was unanimously re-elected by a vote of the JGS membership, as she continues to serves on the JGS Board of Directors and as a member of the organization's Executive Council. 

That same year, Stacy Harris was nominated for the Country Radio Hall of Fame and the Country Music Foundation saluted Stacy, gifting her with membership in recognition of Stacy's archival gifts of career memorabilia to the Foundation. 

A 2021 nominee for the Country Radio Hall of Fame and a MultiChannel News Wonder Woman of the Year nominee, Stacy Harris accepted an invitation to join other advocates, changemakers and entrepreneurs, as well as government officials, in the establishment of the inaugural Chobani Child Hunger Summit. 

On February 5, 2021 Carleton College Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) Communication Specialist Clara Posner and Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life Director of Heritage and Interpretation Nora Katz, M. Phil., videotaped an interview with Stacy Harris for Segment 12 of the ISJL's popular Virtual Vacation series.  Titled Southern Jewish Music: Jews and Country, Stacy's appearance debuted on February 23, 2021 and continues to available here.

Stacy Harris also became a contributor to Owl Guru, the respected career-guidance website, sharing her professional acting experiences and the ins-and-outs of being a technical writer, actress, and historian.  She was also one of 2,482 esteemed journalists from around the world asked to participate in a Muckrack study, sponsored by nearly 20 top professional media organizations (including the International Journalists' Network, RTNDA, the International Center for Journalists, NewsMedia Alliance, the Foreign Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Association and the Association for Business Journalists) on The State of Journalism 2021: Reporting, social media habits, and preferences for working with PR in the year of COVID-19.

In March 16, 2021 Cary O'Dell, Boards assistant to the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, commissioned Stacy to help "build our website with a variety of scholarly essays on each of the 500+ titles on the Registry." As George Jones' biographer, Stacy Harris' first assignment was an essay on Jones' recording of the Bobby Braddock- Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. copyright, He Stopped Loving Her Today.  Also in 2021, the Country Music Foundation awarded her membership in recognition  of, and appreciation for, my historical gifts to its collection.

That same year Stacy Harris also became the first member of the Music Row community to sign and commit to the unity statement of the Black Jewish Entertainment Alliance.

In September, 2021 Stacy became affiliated with the Women's Political Collaborative of Tennessee and ResearchGate.

In appreciation of her participation as a voting shareholder in their respective companies, Bank of America has donated to the National Urban League and UnidosUS in Stacy Harris' name while Pepsico has made a donation to Feeding America in Stacy's honor and NASDAQ has made a contribution to Operation Hope in Stacy's name.

In July, 2021 Abe's Garden Community interviewed Stacy as part of a feasibility study, requesting she lend her expertise, offer her advice, provide input and feedback.  Stacy was happy to step up to the plate, meeting with the organization's consulting firm in an effort to guide the nonprofit through its planning study as it explores the proper timing, leadership and messaging for a potential $19 million campaign to expand its campus, community programming, outreach and services.  In its Summer, 2021 newsletter, the organization honored Stacy, a founding member of its Perennial Society, citing Stacy's including the charity in her estate plans, her continued financial support representing opportunities "to provide brain health, wellness and purposeful living to seniors."
    
In August, 2021 Rolling Stone Culture Council Selection Committee chair Logan Greene invited Stacy, a "cultural trendsetter," to join the "private, vetted community" of "influencers, tastemakers and innovators in the world of music, entertainment [and] media... a network of innovators who are doing inspiring work."

On October 12, 2021 Stacy Harris graduated from the Davidson County Sheriff's Office's Citizens' Academy and during the October 19, 2021 meeting of Nashville's Metropolitan Council Stacy was among those of her DCSO classmates in attendance who were asked to stand and be recognized by Nashville Vice-Mayor Jim Shulman for their community service.
 
An occasional angel investor, in 2021 Stacy Harris expanded her range of investments, beginning a relationship with Royalty Exchange, the online marketplace and auction platform pairing investors with owners of royalty streams in the buying and selling of music and other types of royalties. 

A 2022 Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence Award nominee, Stacy is recognized in the 2022 Edition of Who’s Who in America (75^th Edition) as the recipient of this year’s Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award; an award bestowed on only 5 percent of those who are profiled in Who’s Who.  Eligibility is limited to those who meet all of the following requirements: Previous listing in a Marquis Who’s Who publication over a 20 year period (Stacy's biographical entries are as follows: Who's Who in America - 1996, 50th Edition [pub. 1995]; Who's Who in America - 1995, 49th Edition [pub. 1994]; Who's Who in America - 1994, 48th Edition [pub. 1993]; Who's Who in America - 1992-1993, 47th Edition [pub. 1992]; Who's Who of American Women - 1997-1998, 20th Edition [pub. 1997];  Who's Who of American Women - 1995-1996, 19th Edition [pub. 1995]; Who's Who of American Women - 1993-1994, 18th Edition [pub. 1992]; Who's Who of American Women - 1991-1992, 17th Edition [pub. 1991]; ), more than 20 years’ experience in a particular career field or industry, having been published in at least two books or articles highlighting her experience, having exhibited one or more of her creative works and having received at least one award outside of Marquis Who’s Who. 

Also in 2022, Stacy Harris received a second consecutive nomination for the Country Radio Hall of Fame while Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, citing Stacy's "commitment in honoring and bringing awareness to those who are serving or who have served our country," recruited Stacy for Tennessee's Honor Vote program.

In 2023 Stacy accepted invitations to join ASCAP and to participate in The USC Annenberg Center for Public Relations' annual study of PR, communications and journalism professionals, providing her yet another opportunity to help fellow leaders stay ahead of relevant industry trends while demonstrating the value of her expertise.

On April 27, Stacy became one of 151 Nashville Public Library "ambassadors"; an elite group charged with "conveying the library's impact to elected officials to encourage full funding for NPL."

A respected ethics champion, Stacy Harris continues to support the mission of Business Halacha.

On October 14. 2023 Stacy joined the Creative Community for Peace, joining more than 1,0000 entertainment industry leaders, executives and celebrities as a signatory to an open letter supporting Israel, condemning Hamas' brutal war crimes against humanity and calling for the return of hostages.  

Stacy Harris continues to expand her own charitable funding through donations to The NARAS Foundation, MusiCares, The Tennessee State Museum, The Good People Fund, Akiva, The Nashville Symphony, Nashville Public Television, The Nashville Public Library Foundation, The Institute for American Values, Newman's Own Foundation, Mazon,  Braver Angels (formerly Better Angels), the World Jewish Congress, Litvak SIG, Inc., The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, The Museum of Jewish Heritage's JewishGen, Sumner County CASA, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee, Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas, The Annette Levy Ratkin Jewish Community Archives and The Music Health Alliance  (to name a few) and business interests in a manner consistent with her desire to never fully retire from her status as the "doyenne of Music Row,"

In appreciation of Stacy's participation as a voting shareholder, Pepsico donated to World Central Kitchen, Bank of America donated to One Mind, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Mental Health UK , while Kroger donated a meal in support of its Zero Hunger/Zero Waste social and environmental impact plan in Stacy's name.

In January, 2024 the esteemed Pew Research Center's senior research methodologist Andrew Mercer invited Stacy Harris to once again participate in Muck Rack's annual State of Journalism survey.  That same month YouGov designated Stacy as an "established expert," having performed "better than 82% of U.S. members" the previous year, declaring "Great job!  Let's continue shaping the world together..."

During February, 2024 Stacy Harris took the Dignity Pledge, welcomed by the Dignity Index Team as "clearly someone who values the power of dignity."

Stacy rounds out her philanthropic efforts and service to her community through Vanderbilt University's global alumni network.  A member of Vanderbilt University's Alumni Career Adviser Network,  Stacy Harris volunteers her time and advice to university students in search of career advice that they find useful as they pursue their career paths. 

Stacy Harris  is blessed with the choice of working either within or outside of the once conventional, now drastically-altered, music industry business models, on her terms, as she continues to reserve the option of easing into the semi-retirement she has so richly earned.

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