Exterior of Jack's Tracks, now Allentown Studios after renovation, 2017. Image courtesy of MHCF.
Stop 14 of 25
Allentown Studios, formerly Jack’s Tracks
Like Chet Atkins who operated the RCA Studios, “Cowboy" Jack Clement was a Tennessee-born songwriter and producer. In fact, Jack Clement’s first work in Nashville was for Atkins at RCA in 1960. After a brief move to Texas, Clement returned to Nashville where he established Jack Clement Recording Studios in 1969, and then a second studio, Jack’s Tracks. This building was formerly Jack’s Tracks, which opened in 1971 at the height of Music Row’s recording heyday. Clement, also started his own record label, JMI, which released records by Don Williams, Stoney Edwards, Bob McDill, and many more.
Clement sold Jack's Tracks Recording Studio after just four years. Hall of Fame songwriter and music producer Allen Reynolds purchased the studio in 1975 for $65,000. Reynolds oversaw the recording and mixing of many albums right here—including records by Don Williams, Crystal Gayle, Emmylou Harris, and Kathy Mattea. Reynolds also produced all but one of Garth Brooks’s albums in this studio. Reynolds operated the studio from 1975 until 2010, when he sold it to Garth Brooks. Two years later, Brooks renamed the studio Allentown in honor of Allen Reynolds. The studio still serves as Garth Brooks’s main recording studio.
Turn LEFT onto Sixteenth Avenue South. In about half a block, locate the PLA sign and building on your left.
Tour Stops
Owen Bradley Park, Musica Statue, Buddy Killen Circle
1 Music Square East at Division Street
ASCAP and Sony Music
2 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
Tree Publishing, Former Fire Hall No. 7
16 Music Square West, Nashville, TN
RCA Studio B
1611 Roy Acuff Place, Nashville, TN 37203
Carnival Music and Mural
24 Music Square West, Number 2, Nashville TN
RCA Studio A
30 Music Square West, Number 100, Nashville, TN 37203
Word Entertainment
25 Music Square West, Nashville, TN
Starstruck Studios
40 Music Square West, Nashville TN
iHeartMedia
55 Music Square West, Nashville, TN 37203
Quadrafonic or Quad Studios, Round Hill Music
1802 Grand Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212
Scarritt Bennett Center
1027 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Ocean Way Nashville Studios
1200 Seventeenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Little Sisters of the Poor, now Vanderbilt University
1400 Eighteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203
Allentown Studios, formerly Jack’s Tracks
1308 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
PLA Media
1303 Sixteenth Avenue South A, Nashville, TN 37212
Big Machine Records
1219 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
House of David
1205 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Landmark Community Bank, formerly CBS Songs and Sony Music
1013 Sixteenth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212
Belmont Church
68 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
Curb College, Quonset Hut, and Columbia Records
34 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
SESAC and Country Music Association (CMA)
35 Music Square East, Nashville TN
Decca Records
27 Music Square East, Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Warner Music and Warner Production
21 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203
BMI and Frances Preston
10 Music Square East Nashville, TN 37203
Spence Manor Motor Hotel and Webb Pierce Guitar Swimming Pool
11 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203