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Universal Music Group Nashville is Universal Music Group 's Country Music holdings. Some of the labels in this group include MCA Nashville Records, Mercury Nashville Records and Lost Highway Records.


MCA NASHVILLE


MCA Nashville started out as the country music division of .

In 1979, MCA Nashville absorbed the country music roster (including Roy Clark and The Oak Ridge Boys ) and back catalogue of ABC Records including the Dot Records catalogue.

In the 1990s MCA Nashville briefly revived the Decca label for country music releases, but it was shut down after Universal Music absorbed PolyGram and chose to reserve the Decca name for Classical Music releases.

With the absorption of MCA Records into Geffen Records in 2003 , MCA Nashville is now the only unit of Universal Music to still use the MCA name.


LOST HIGHWAY RECORDS


Lost Highway Records was formed by Luke Lewis in 2000 , Lost Highway Records operates as a Country Music label, based out of Nashville . The company named was inspired by a Hank Williams song. Today the label operates in conjunction with The Island Def Jam Music Group .

Notable artists include Ryan Adams , Hayes Carll , Elvis Costello , Eagles , Bernard Fanning , Donavon Frankenreiter , Mary Gauthier , Golden Smog , The Jayhawks , Tift Merritt , Van Morrison , Willie Nelson , and Lucinda Williams .

Additionally Lost Highway distributed the soundtracks for '' O' Brother, Where Art Thou? '', '' Deadwood '', and '' Open Season '' by Paul Westerberg . They have also acted as distributor for albums from Johnny Cash and Lyle Lovett .


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See Also: UMG Nashville Artists




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