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Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
1968 in country music, Johnny Cash records At Folsom Prison; crossover successes of "Honey," "Harper Valley PTA"; Tammy Wynette records "Stand by Your Man"; final No. 1 hit for Eddy Arnold; death of Red Foley. 1969 in country music, Premieres of Hee Haw, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Johnny Cash Show. Marriage of George Jones and Tammy ...
Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States since 1944. The first country chart was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk Records in the issue of the magazine dated January 8, 1944, and tracked the songs most played in the nation's jukeboxes. [1]
Outlaw country [2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.
Freedom Songs of the United Nations. With Svatava Jakobson. Washington, D.C.: Office of War Information, 1943. Our Singing Country: Folk Songs and Ballads. With John A. Lomax and Ruth Crawford Seeger. New York: MacMillan, 1941. Check-list of Recorded Songs in the English Language in the Archive of American Folk Song in July 1940.
It also spawned eleven more Blue Yodels, as well as Jimmie Rodger's Last Blue Yodel, which was not released until after his death in 1933. Rodgers went on to become the first "superstar" of country music, with his records achieving unprecedented sales figures. He recorded a total of 113 songs before his death, only a handful of them without yodels.
As is the case with rock music (where classic rock, mainstream rock, and active rock all have varying amounts of older music), country music stations also can vary in the amount of "classic" content in their playlist, and formats exist for such stations. In addition to pure "classic country" stations, which play little to no current or ...
A. Abby Anderson discography; Adam Brand discography; Ryan Adams discography; Trace Adkins discography; Alabama discography; Lauren Alaina discography; Jason Aldean discography