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James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).
Albert Green Hopkins (1889 – October 21, 1932) [1] was an American musician, a pioneer of what later came to be called country music; in 1925 he originated the earlier designation of this music as "hillbilly music", [2] though not without qualms about its pejorative connotation. [1] Hopkins played piano, an unusual instrument for Appalachian ...
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The popularity of such musicians as the Carter Family, who first recorded at the sessions, proved to industry executives that there was a market for "mountain" or "hillbilly" music. Other influential 1920s-era location recording sessions in Appalachia were the Johnson City sessions and the Knoxville sessions.
Connie Barriot Gay (August 22, 1914 – December 3, 1989) was an American music entrepreneur who is renowned as a "founding father" and "major force" in country music.He is credited for coining the country music genre, which had previously been called hillbilly music.
Elvis Presley was a prominent player of rockabilly and was known early in his career as the "Hillbilly Cat". When the Country Music Association was founded in 1958, the term hillbilly music gradually fell out of use. The music industry merged hillbilly music, Western swing, and Cowboy music, to form the current category C&W, Country and Western.
Country Music from the Heart of the Country: Cecil Surratt and Smitty Smith 861 The World's Best Five String Banjo: Don Reno and Red Smiley 862 Hootenanny: America's Finest Folk Singing with 5-String Banjo: Various Artists 863 Teenage Love Songs: Trini Lopez: 864 The Country Folk Music Spotlight: The Stanley Brothers: 865 It Won't Be This Way ...
Rodgers was the first artist inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 for his influence in artists of "every genre" through music that "fused hillbilly, gospel, blues, jazz, pop and mountain folk music into timeless American standards". [107] That same year, he was inducted to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.