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The song inspired a popular line dance, and has been used as the theme music for the Discovery Channel reality series Moonshiners. The song's blend of country and Southern rock has influenced several artists, including Eric Church , Travis Tritt , Brothers Osborne , Chris Stapleton and Jason Aldean .
"Take Me Home, Country Roads", also known simply as "Country Roads", is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver. It was released as a single performed by Denver on April 12, 1971, peaking at number two on Billboard ' s US Hot 100 singles for the week ending August 28, 1971.
Margo Smith (born Betty Lou Miller; April 9, 1939 – January 23, 2024) was an American country and Christian music singer–songwriter. She had several years of country success during the 1970s, which included two number one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
The Gospel Road: A Story of Jesus is a double album and the fourth gospel album and 45th overall album by American country singer Johnny Cash, released on Columbia Records in 1973 (see 1973 in music).
Steven Curtis Chapman (born November 21, 1962) is an American contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, author, and social activist.. Chapman began his career in the late 1980s as a songwriter and performer of contemporary Christian music and became the artist in Christian music with the most awards releasing over 25 albums.
The song is about turning to whiskey to get over a bad breakup. Lyrics: “I'ma need some whiskey glasses/'Cause I don't wanna see the truth/She's probably making out on the couch right now/With ...
By the mid-1970s, the phrase "contemporary Christian music" (CCM) had been coined by Ron Moore [9] and the first edition of CCM Magazine was published in July 1977. CCM now was a combination of traditional gospel music, Southern gospel music, Jesus music artists, and in some cases a style of big-band music with Christian lyrics. [10]
Page's recording also inspired many other versions, and 4.8 million copies were sold for the various major versions combined, in addition to 1.8 million copies of sheet music sold, which made the song likely the most successful song in the history of pop music up to 1951 in the US. [19] In Japan, the song was the biggest-selling song ever as of ...