Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism - Hardcoverby Joseph M. Thompson (Author) Country music maintains a special, decades long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn't just happen. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers. Beginning in the 1950s, the military flooded armed forces airwaves with the