As Music Row Shifts to Condo Row, Nashville Cries in Its Beer

To bolster his argument that the cavernous and almost-famous music room known as RCA Studio A should be spared from the wrecking ball, Mike Kopp, an artist manager, dropped a needle onto an LP, playing one of the thousands of songs recorded here over the last half-century.

It was Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” and on a recent morning it filled the empty studio with the same minor-key pathos and galloping urgency that it must have exuded back when Ms. Parton sang it here in 1973.

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