Country Music has its hallowed places, and among one of the most revered is Nashville's RCA Studio B.

The outside of this rectangular brick building at 1611 Roy Acuff Place is nondescript, save for the chink a nervous Dolly Parton put in the wall with her car as she arrived for one of her early recording sessions. Even so, it didn't take long, after opening its doors, for this studio to become known as "The Home of 1,000 Hits."

Studio B's first sessions transpired in November 1957, a milestone celebrated this year by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum through tour packages, live broadcasts from the studio, recording workshops and panel discussions, all of which have a rich history to examine. Researchers are still trying to verify the very first artist who recorded there, but some of the earliest include The Stanley Brothers and Don Gibson, whose "Oh, Lonesome Me" was the first big crossover hit to emerge from the facility.