Area Code 615 (band)

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| name = Area Code 615

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| origin = Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

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| genre = {{Hlist|Progressive country rock{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZjrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA9|title=Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary|first=Richard|last=Carlin|date=February 25, 2014|page=9|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135361044|via=Google Books |quote=formed Barefoot Jerry to continue the progressive country-rock style of Area Code 615}}}}

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| years_active = 1969–1973

| label = Polydor/PolyGram

| associated_acts = Bob Dylan, Pearls Before Swine, Barefoot Jerry, Johnny Cash, The Monkees

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Area Code 615 was an American progressive country rock band from Nashville, active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, taking its name from the telephone area code, which at the time covered all of Central and Eastern Tennessee. The band was made up of session musicians, recording only two albums before resuming normal session work. Several of the members were backing musicians for Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline albums{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/area-code-615-mn0000602308/biography|title=Area Code 615 | Biography & History|website=AllMusic|access-date=August 4, 2021}} plus recordings by Billy Swan and The Monkees. They also backed Linda Ronstadt on her Silk Purse album.

Its best-known work was "Stone Fox Chase", which was used as the theme to the BBC's music program The Old Grey Whistle Test.{{cite web|last=Fiegel|first=Eddi|title=Wayne Moss: Cinderella Sound, Nashville|url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/wayne-moss-cinderella-sound-nashville|website=Sound On Sound|date=October 2011|access-date=27 September 2024}}{{cite book|title=The Guinness Who's Who of Country Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1993|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-726-6|pages=21/22}}

Area Code 615 members Wayne Moss, Mac Gayden, and Kenny Buttrey went on to play with Nashville-based Barefoot Jerry, while David Briggs later worked with Elvis Presley and Joan Baez.

The band’s 1969 cover of "Classical Gas" was featured in Irish and UK Guinness TV commercials.