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Giving You A Nice Brief History of Country Music
There are multitudes of music genres in today’s musical world. Country music is truly one of my favorites and so I thought I would bring a little bit of country history to the forefront. If you don’t know very much about country music suffice it to say that all country songs tell a tale. It has been said that these songs are about our lives, who we are and where we came from. It developed two of the very best selling solo musical artists of all time in the United States. Elvis Presley’s early career was certainly country hillbilly music and he happened to become one of the defining figures in the birth of Rock n Roll. Garth Brooks is the second bestselling solo artist in United States history and has a very well liked show in Las Vegas. That’s a reasonably amazing start. Going back in history, however, we discover that it goes back to the early 1920′s in America and it has its roots in classic folk music, Celtic music, Blues, Bluegrass and Gospel music. Early country music was termed “Hillbilly” music however the terminology changed to Country Music in the early 1940′s. In its beginnings, Country music was pure American; the country music viewers were American, its performers were American and its tone was American.
1925 ushered in the era of the “Singing Cowboy” when the very first cowboy song was recorded by Carl T. Sprague. The full public attention towards the singing cowboy wasn’t really identified until talking movies starring Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter and even a young John Wayne became popular Read the rest of this entry »
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