If you're looking for peace and quiet, the best place to find it right now might be at a Nashville recording studio. There are no pounding kick drums, no screeching guitar solos and no singers belting out the high notes.
The mics are turned off, the rooms are empty, and the music is in hibernation, waiting for the COVID-19 pandemic to pass over.
Some of the city's largest studios closed their doors even before Nashville shut down nonessential businesses with a safer-at-home order that took effect March 23.
And most are likely to remain quiet until June at the earliest, though the lack of a concrete national plan has left owners and studio managers in an uncomfortable limbo. "The worst part is not knowing," says Blackbird Studio owner John