Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music City, 1945-1975 explores the roles that recording engineers, session musicians, and record producers played in shaping the sounds of country music during the fertile "Nashville Sound" era. Travis D. Stimeling's fabulous book is the first to tell us the important history of session musicians during the Nashville Sound era, and it brings our understanding of country music recording history to a whole new level. Anyone interested in the exciting story of how individual musicians helped shape country music should read Nashville Cats.