Eric Marcum is General Manager and Content Director of WSM Radio, the most famed country music station in the world. WSM has broadcasted the Grand Old Opry Radio Show and related programming since 1925. He oversees all WSM business operations, content and programming, advertising, sponsorship, production, streaming and syndication. In short, he runs the show at this bedrock of country music history and programming.

Craig Havighurst is my favorite music journalist and music history expert. His knowledge runs deep and wide on just about any topic involving music, and in particular Nashville and roots/country/Americana music. He is the author of Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City, which documented for the first time how Nashville was transformed by one of the nation’s greatest radio stations.

The Smartest People In The Room^® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.

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