Joe Galante, whose work as a longtime record label chief did much to modernize country music business practices and expand the genre’s commercial horizons, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday night. A native of Queens, New York, Galante started his career as a budget analyst with RCA Records in New York in 1971. He moved to the label’s Nashville office three years later and, although initially viewed as an outsider, took charge of RCA Records Nashville in 1982—the youngest

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