Jimmy Harnen Tackles All Access '10 Questions'

Jimmy Harnen

"I think an identity can make a musical genre idle rather than active. Music ebbs and flows over time. And, I personally believe we cannot steer the format. The format is what the fans say it is. Art that doesn't sell is an obsession with a storage problem."

That's BIG MACHINE LABEL GROUP EVP/BMLG RECORDS President JIMMY HARNEN, talking about Country music's broad appeal, and whether the format has a singular, defining identity right now. HARNEN generously answered "10 Questions" for ALL ACCESS NASHVILLE this week; read the entire Q&A here.

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