But even beyond his six-string virtuosity, Mr. Atkins presided over the city for decades as its most prominent recording executive, a principal creator of the smooth and palatable "Nashville Sound" that took the music from its bluegrass origins to worldwide commercial success and erected a pillar of the state's economy.
In 2007, the album was voted by a panel of prominent recording artists and songwriters as the 39th most influential and inspirational record of all time in Mojo magazine's list of "100 Records That Changed the World".
"It's time for Belmont to change," Mr. Curb, a prominent record executive and successful Nascar owner and sponsor, told The Tennessean newspaper.
A selection of the most prominent records by Nirvana and Pearl Jam are in a small sales display at the front counter of Easy Street Records in a West Seattle neighborhood near where Eddie Vedder, the singer for Pearl Jam, owns a house.
This may seem like hair-splitting to some, including Viesturs, given the elevations in question -- Broad Peak is 8,050 meters (26,400 feet) high, Shisa Pangma is 8,027 meters (26,335 feet) -- but the two most prominent record-keepers in mountaineering, a sport that has no official body to adjudicate such matters, feel that Viesturs cannot claim to have reached the summit of those two peaks.
The Get Up Kids announcement to leave Doghouse Records brought interest from prominent record labels including Sub Pop, Geffen and Mojo Records.
One of Hong Kong's most prominent record labels eventually offered to sign Chung as one of their stars, followed by two more backing offers from individual artists.
On Sept. 3, she and her husband, Bruce, working with a staff of six people spread across seven states and working out of their homes, established a database Web site of bibliographies, historical and current book auction records, and prominent book dealer catalogs.
West of the ford is its namesake, Names Hill, which is a prominent emigrant "recording area" with signatures and other carvings.
As well as being a songwriter and musician, Mr. Makhija is also the founder of Demonstealer Records, one of India's most prominent independent record labels.
Though King Mwanga is the most prominent African recorded as being openly gay, he was not alone.
