The Hall of Fame Is Losing One of Its Steadiest Hands

Michael McCall, who has spent years at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum shaping its exhibits and the words that accompany them, is stepping away from the institution. His work there has covered three crafts at once, as a writer, an editor and a curator, the kind of combination that rarely draws a spotlight but shows in every gallery a visitor walks through. Downtown, in a building that tells the city's story to the rest of the country, that is a quiet departure Nashville will feel. The Hall has not been a place that announces its own staff often, which makes the occasion worth marking.

With reporting from MusicRow.