After 43 years in the music industry, Allen Brown, most recently Sony Music Nashville’s SVP of Media and Corporate Communications, has announced his retirement, effective 6/30:

“Last evening, I had the opportunity to share this news with my Sony Music Nashville family at a dinner in the rotunda of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. It was a full circle moment for me since I was a Hall of Fame tour guide and also a Belmont intern for CBS Records Nashville (later renamed Sony Music Nashville) when I was 21.

I worked for CBS Records and Sony Music Nashville or directly with artists who were signed to these label groups for over 38 years. In fact, I have had the pleasure of working with 18 of the artists inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. But as I said to my label family, the superstars in the rotunada I am most proud of working alongside of are my fellow team members.

I could spend all my remaining time after retirement thanking everyone who has helped, encouraged, mentored and been there for me these past several years! I am so blessed to have worked with and known you!”

We love Brown dearly and wish him every happiness in his well-deserved next chapter.