Paul Kingsbury Joins Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum as Managing Editor

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Paul Kingsbury

Author and editor Paul Kingsbury has joined the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum staff as managing editor. In this role, Kingsbury will manage the development of written content for the museum’s website, exhibitions, public programs, publications, educational materials and online offerings. He reports to Brenda Colladay, the museum’s vice president of museum services.

Kingsbury has written extensively about country music throughout his career, writing or co-authoring several books including: Patsy Cline: Crazy for Loving You; Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World; The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music; Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop; BMI: The Explosion of American Music, 1940-1990; and Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers, 1947-1989.

In addition, he served as the editor-in-chief for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Encyclopedia of Country Music, first published in 1998, and co-editor for the museum’s pictorial history Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America, published in 2006. Kingsbury most recently served as communications manager for North America Agriculture for The Nature Conservancy where he was responsible for the organization’s agriculture marketing and communications.

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