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It became the band's highest-charting in the United Kingdom as well as their first UK top-five entry and their third top-10 single. In the band's native Scotland, the song reached number three on the Scottish Singles Chart, becoming their most successful single since "Kowalski" in 1997. "Country Girl" was released to American radio on 24 July 2006.
Modern Scots" is used to describe the language after 1700, when southern Modern English was generally adopted as the literary language. There is no institutionalised standard variety, but during the 18th century a new literary language descended from the old court Scots emerged.
Music critic Johnny Rogan described "Country Girl" as "magnificent," stating that "this represented the scale of Young's artistic ambition as a member of CSN&Y." [1] Rogan also praised David Crosby's, Stephen Stills' and Graham Nash's backing vocals as well as the Phil Spector-esque "grandiose production."
Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...
Scottish Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k /, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish ...
A Doric Scots speaker, recorded in Scotland. Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots [1] or Northeast Scots, [2] refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric.
The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia) [a] is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005, and it first reached 1,000 articles in February 2006, and 5,000 articles in November 2010.
The song premiered on the Scott Mills BBC Radio 1 show on 15 January 2010. [1] Its artwork was released on the band's website on 8 February [2] and its video premiered on the band's website on 18 February. [3] The song itself was released for digital download on 26 March 2010 with a CD release following three days later.