The publisher/executive editor and
media critic 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'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."
An internationally-known author, 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,
pundit, arts critic, technical writer, axiologist, lifestyle and
relationship expert, entertainment entrepreneur, community activist,
iconoclast 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.
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 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 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, Dave DiMartino, Anne
Fletcher, Staff
Sgt. Barry (Ballad of the Green Beret) Sadler, 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.
She/her work have been the subject of articles appearing in 360
Magazine, 50minds.com, Academia,
Academic,
Agora Reposta, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Albany Democrat Herald,
the Albany
Times Union, Alchatron,
the Allentown
Morning Call, the American Jewish Archives Journal, the Anchorage Daily News, Argus Press,
the Austin
American-Statesman, the Beaumont Enterprise,
the Bellingham
Herald, Billboard, biographygist.com,
broadwayworld.com, the Buffalo News, californialifehd.com, the Casper Star-Tribune, Cease and
Desist: The All-Inclusive Dixie Chicks Page, the Centre Daily Times,
the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Charlotte Observer, Christian Country News, the Conta
Costa Times, coopertoons.com, the Country Note, the Corvallis Gazette
Times, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, the Columbus Telegram,
the Connecticut
Post, Christian County News, the Daily Herald,
the Daily
Journal, the Daily News Journal, the Danbury News Times,
degruyter.com, dogedaos.com,
einnews.com, Empty Nest Genealogy, encyclopedia.com, EPDF, the Erie Times-News, filmtronic.com,
the Fresno
Bee, Forbes,
the Fort
Worth Star Telegram, the Galveston County Daily News, gamut.fm, the Gettysburg Times, ghanafuo.com, gratefulweb.com, the Greenfield
Daily Reporter, Greenwich Time, The Greensboro News & Record, Guitar Girl Magazine, the Hendersonville
Times-News, hocdientucoban.com, hocwiki.com, the Houston Chronicle, the Inland Valley Daily
Bulletin, insidehook.com, the Kansas City Star, the Kennebec Journal,
the Kingsport Times News, the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Las Vegas Sun,
the Lebanon
Daily News, theledger.com, Library Journal, lifewire.com, the Lompoc Record, maximumedge.com,
the Marin
Independent Journal, MENAFN, the Miami Herald, Iowa's Mitchell County Press-News, mobitool.net, the Monterey County
Herald, the Morning Sentinel, the Muscatine Journal, Music
City Beat, Music Matters Magazine, mycentraloregon.com,
the Myrtle Beach Sun
News, the Napa Valley Register, Nashville Country Music Scene, the Nashville Post, Newsday, newser.com,
newsystocks.com, The New York Times News Service, northjersey.com, the Oakland
Tribune, the Oklahoman, the Orlando Sentinel,
owlguru.com,
pasture.com, peliplat.com, peoplepill.com, PressReader, Press Gazette, the Press Herald,
rateyourmusic.com, Raizor's
Edge, Reader's Digest, thereaderwiki.com,
The
Red Bull Report, Reddit.com, The Republic, ResearchGate, the Sacramento Bee, salon.com, the San Antonio Express,
the San
Diego Union Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Luis Obispo Tribune,
the Santa
Cruz Sentinel, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, the Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, the Seattle Times, seekingalpha.com, sensagent.com,
shania.boards, shespeaks.com, shotonwhat.com,
Softpanorama, sonicbids.com, the Stamford
Advocate, the StarNews, the StarTribune,
the State, shotonwhat.com,
strictlycountry.com, the Sun Herald, TaxBuzz, techbonhu.com, the Tennessee
Journal, thriftbooks.com, tmz.ng, tnn., the Tuscaloosa News,
umlconnector.com,
U.S. Finance Post, valiantceo.com, the Ventura County Star, Victoria Advocate,
votervoice.net, walliserspage.com, the Washington
Post, the Watertown Daily Times, wcpi.net,
the Westport
News, the Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, the Winona Daily News,
the Worcester
Telegram, workradiohistory.com, the Writers Directory and online destinations including
bww.musicworld.com, Ed
Kurtz Books, Facts Fetch, Golden Graham
On-Line, insidehook.com, journalism.co.uk, Library Journal, Mashene, Kingsport, Tennessee's Mountain
Music Museum, thestarpress.com, The
Free Online Library, tngovwatch.org, tracktvlinks.com,
usfinancepost.com, Virtual
Studio Networks, walliserspage.com,
WBIR.com, Wild Horse Entertainment South Africa, Women's
Health Interactive , Your
Health Journal and youtern.com.
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 ionnides.
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 of
member of the Academy of Country Music.
She became a paid mock jurist (following her service as a Davidson Country 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 Harris 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.)
Additionally, Stacy 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.
In the closing months of 2015, Stacy Harris 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 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, my first assignment was an essay
on Jones' recording of the Bobby Braddock- Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. copyright, He Stopped Loving Her Today. That same year the Country Music Foundation awarded me
membership in recognitionan 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.
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
with membership in its Perenniel 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.
On November 11, 2021 Collin Gwin,
casting director for Texas Crew Productions, requested an interview with Stacy Harris
to air on a Season 3 (2022) segment of AXS TV's Music's
Greatest Mysteries.
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.
Stacy began 2022 by joining the Vanderbilt
University Alumni Book Club.
A 2022 Nashville Business Journal Women of Influence Award nominee, Stacy is recognized in the 2022 Edition of Who’s Who in America (75th Edition) as the recipient of 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.
Stacy also 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,"
Stacy Harris 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 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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