Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians, based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Members of the group have been credited on records dating from 1972 to the present, although the group was formally established as "The Nashville String Machine" in 1981. The music aggregating website AllMusic lists 1,171 albums on which "The Nashville String Machine" is credited. The group has appeared in configurations as large as an orchestra or as small as a duo.