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Covers:  country radio, country music, Nashville music industry
Doesn't Cover: Americana, alternative music
Storyteller. Managing Editor, Country Insider. President, @Historic_Nash. (he/him)

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A Nashville native, Brian Mansfield is a nationally recognized music journalist and historian. He is currently managing editor of Country Insider, a trade newsletter for the country radio industry.
In addition, he runs a Facebook page called the Nashville Musical History Tour, which tells the city's music stories through the locations where they took place. He also writes and produces the Grand Ole Opry’s Opry Country Classics, a live-performance radio broadcast staged at the Ryman Auditorium s…

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Grand Ole Opry Finds New Purpose Amid Pandemic, Playing to Empty Houses and a New TV Audience

Grand Ole Opry Finds New Purpose Amid Pandemic, Playing to Empty Houses and a New TV Audience

Brad Paisley knows the Grand Ole Opry has its ghosts, but March 21 felt downright eerie. There was no anticip…

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Gabby Barrett's 'Goldmine': Album Review

Gabby Barrett's 'Goldmine': Album Review

Gabby Barrett, who finished third on the 2018 edition of “Idol” as an 18-year-old, won over country radio pro…

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Kenny Chesney's 'Here and Now': Album Review

Kenny Chesney's 'Here and Now': Album Review

Kenny Chesney can't possibly have imagined the world in which we'd be listening to "Here and Now." The countr…

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On the Verge: Halsey

On the Verge: Halsey

This week in On the Verge, USA TODAY's spotlight on breakthrough artists, Brian Mansfield talks to singer/son…

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Netflix doc explores Keith Richards' influences

Netflix doc explores Keith Richards' influences

For a self-avowed music nerd like Morgan Neville, days don't get much better than the one he spent spinning r…

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On the Road Again: Joe Walsh

On the Road Again: Joe Walsh

On the Road Again, USA TODAY's spotlight on artists on tour, this week looks at rock guitar great Joe Walsh. …

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Base-editing corrects metabolic abnormalities in a humanized mouse model for glycogen storage disease type-Ia - Nature Communications

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By Thomas C. Leete, Jeffrey Quinn, Giuseppe Ciaramella, Brian Mansfield , Lo-I Cheng
| Nature
Abstract Glycogen storage disease type-Ia patients, deficient in the G6PC1 gene encoding glucose-6-phosphatase-α, lack blood glucose control, resulting in life-threatening hypoglycemia. Here we show our humanized mouse model, huR83C, carrying the pathogenic G6PC1-R83C variant displays the phenotype of glycogen storage disease type-Ia and dies prematurely.
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Jerry Lee Lewis, rock 'n' roll pioneer and perpetual ball of fire, dies at 87 Original

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Play Pause ClosedCaption Open Share Enter Full Screen Exit Full Screen For the longest time, it seemed that if Jerry Lee Lewis wasn’t dead already, then obviously nothing could kill him. But what alcohol, painkillers, a perforated stomach ulcer, angry fathers and general recklessness couldn’t do, advancing age finally did. The seemingly indestructible rock ‘n’ roll wild man died Friday at 87 at his home in Desoto County, Mississippi, near Memphis.
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The 10 best (and the absolute worst) Elvis movies, ranked

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By Brian Mansfield 
| USA Today
Play Pause ClosedCaption Open Share Enter Full Screen Exit Full Screen The story of Elvis Presley's film career is one of wasted potential. Too many of the 31 movies he shot from 1956 to 1969 were money-making hack jobs, their scripts existing to do little more than fill time between musical numbers. Indeed, in Baz Luhrmann's new "Elvis" biopic, the King of Rock 'n' Roll's entire Hollywood career is reduced to a flashy montage.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

First writing gig: The Metro, a free newspaper covering Nashville music. First full-time job: Nashville Scene entertainment editor.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, but only electrics.

What's your favorite social network?

Facebook

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