Stacy's Music Row Report's Publisher/Executive Editor Stacy Harris' country radio career began in Minneapolis, while she was still in high school working behind-the-scenes at WLOL and KTCR.  

While attending Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Stacy met Teddy Bart who offered to assist her in landing a job at WSM Radio.  A paying job never materialized (by then Stacy Harris was employed by WPLN Radio), but Stacy spent many evenings answering phones for Ralph Emery's Opry Star Spotlight (relieving John Riggs), continuing to so when Hairl Hensley took over till she finally figured out that the good will she thought she was engendering was not going to land her a paid staff position.

While at WPLN, Stacy held several responsibilities, including traffic, editing tape (by splicing), news anchoring and reporting, announcing classical music and hosting the station's Pointe 3 interview show, where she had the opportunity to interview Will Rogers, Jr. when he visited Nashville. 

At WPLN, during the energy crisis of the 1970s, Stacy interviewed  Porter Wagoner and Tom T. Hall on the rising price of diesel fuel.  After airing locally,  Stacy Harris "made network" when the interview with Wagoner and Hall aired on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

By the early 1980s, Stacy was doing a lot of country radio-related freelance work, landing a position with MJI Broadcasting as a writer of its Country Quiz program (later retitled Celebrity Country Quiz).    She also wrote a scripts for Gerry House and the Nascar Country Radio Network.

Stacy joined Jerry Dahmen as his guest on Dahmen's WSM Radio program, I Love Life!

By 1986, Stacy Harris saw a void in the ABC Radio Network's coverage of country-music and created a job for herself representing the network in Nashville where her work covering country-music events, interviewing country-music artists and covering breaking news from Music City in general, and Music Row in particular, was made available to the network's hundreds of affiliates. 

While working with ABC Radio News, Stacy championed the role of women in country-radio as a member of the (now defunct) Nashville chapter of American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT). 

Having been mentored by Biff Collie from the early days of the Country Radio Seminars, Stacy was pleased when Biff and his Nashville International partner Irby Mandrell (Barbara Mandrell's father and manager) invited her to lunch to discuss a role for her incorporated in their new venture. 

Stacy gladly accepted both the luncheon invitation and their request to write scripts for a syndicated radio venture (with a title TBA) which was essentially to be a country radio version of Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story." 

Shortly after Stacy wrote the pilot episode, (Tom T. Hall was the "punchline,") Collie passed away and with his passing Mandrell (who had provided the funding) abandoned the project.

Following Biff Collie's passing (in 1992) to the present, Stacy has been invited to appear on numerous talk radio programs to discuss her career as a multimedia country-music journalist.  While not serving as cohost (and permanent guest host) of WLAC-Radio's "The Bill Karlson Show)- where Stacy first met Charlie Mattos (now of WSM Radio and Circle TV fame), who hosted a sports show that aired directly on WLAC directly preceding the Karlson broadcast, Stacy appeared on programs such  as VRH Radio's BackStory with the American History Guys (hosted by Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh).

In 2004 Stacy Harris joined a panel of respected program directors, radio personalities and other industry experts as a judge in Dave Schmidt's "The World's First Future Star" contest.

The following year she reprised her career as an author and broadcaster as a guest on Jake Wylde's WWTN's Cumulus Radio show, "Nashville Nightline."

Shortly thereafter Stacy Harris' work in Minnesota country radio was recognized when she became a nominee for the Minnesota Historical Society's "Minnesota 150; a showcase of 150 people, places, things and events that have sparked a significant change within the state or beyond Minnesota's borders, culminating in the celebration of Minnesota's 150th birthday in 2008.

Subsequently, Stacy appeared with Naomi Soule and Terry Moses, hosts of St Louis' 89.1 KCLC Radio's "The Acoustic Edge."  During the phone interview, she reflected on the highlights of her career, the current state of the country-music industry in general and country radio in particular. 

Stacy Harris' candor was so well-received by the hosts of the Roots Music Association's Folk Show of the Year, and as reflected by their listeners' feedback, that the hosts booked a return appearance.  In fact, the program provided such an interesting exchange of dialog that Naomi and Terry asked Stacy to appear with them at least once "every couple of months."

More recently, Stacy Harris was honored by country music's internationally-known, award-winning "Cotton King" Sherwin Linton, who recommended Stacy to Diana Pierce.  The Minnesota Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee, in turn, invited Stacy to collaborate with her on Country Music: Made in Minnesota, a documentary Pierce produced for PBS on the history of Minnesota's country-music scene (including the vital role of Minnesota country radio, whose disc jockeys once included such future country-music stars as Dave Dudley and Roy Drusky).

As 2020 came to a close, Stacy was one of four veteran broadcasters chosen by veteran producer/arranger/composer Tommy Mac to share her insights on the future of commercial radio.

Most recently, earlier this year, the Country Music Foundation saluted Stacy Harris gifting her with membership in recognition of her archival gifts of career memorabilia (including the aforementioned original reel-to-reel network radio interview with Tom T. Hall and Porter Wagoner).

Asked to describe her most important contribution to the country-music industry, Stacy notes "There had never been any women in Twin Cities-area country-radio when I got my start and, as mentioned, it took my moving to Nashville and largely creating my own opportunities for me to be paid for my work at a time when I was dismissed by broadcasters like the late David Tower, who told me point blank I was wasting my time because women's radio voices 'lacked authority.'  

"The stamina to prove Tower and others like him wrong sustained me as I had to fight for every opportunity in broadcasting that I received.

"In that respect, perhaps my most important contribution to the country-music industry has occurred in my other capacities: my "firsts" such as authoring published children's books about country music (for Lerner Publications) or creating country-music-themed crossword puzzles (appearing in Inside Country Music magazine). 

"I made country-music history (with a byline on the front-page headline story of the Nashville Banner's November 12, 1973 edition) as the last person to interview David "Stringbean" Akeman, within hours of "The Stringbean Murders."   That now-famous interview became the front-page lead story for the Banner's November 12, 1973 edition (reprised by Francis Xavier "Red" O'Donnell in his Nashville Report column appearing in the November 24, 1973 edition of Record World)  and the tape of the historic event- which famed producer/session player Fred Carter, Jr. (a/k/a Deana Carter's father) wanted to buy from me- is available at no charge to researchers at the Country Music Foundation library in Nashville. 

"But, with respect to country-radio, as a female pioneer of Twin Cities' country radio, amid the limited opportunities, and lack of recognition and compensation, I know I've paved the way for at least two generations of women who have been the beneficiaries of changed times."