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Twang is an onomatopoeia originally used to describe the sound of a vibrating bow string after the arrow is released. [1] By extension, it applies to the similar vibration produced when the string of a musical instrument is plucked , and similar sounds.
Twang is the twenty-sixth studio album by American country music artist George Strait. It was released on August 11, 2009, via MCA Nashville , the same label to which Strait has been signed since 1981.
Progressive country is a term used variously to describe a movement, radio format or subgenre of country music [1] which developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reaction against the slick, pop-oriented Nashville sound.
Country music artists from the U.S. have seen crossover with Latin American audiences, particularly in Mexico. Country music artists from throughout the U.S. have recorded renditions of Mexican folk songs, including "El Rey" which was performed on George Strait's Twang album and during Al Hurricane's tribute concert.
The singer and TV show host continues to impress with her cover performances.
The Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats . [ 2 ]
Alternative country (commonly abbreviated to alt-country; [1] also known as alternative country rock, [2] insurgent country, [3] Americana, or y'allternative [4]) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and/or country rock that includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music, mainstream country rock, and country pop.
Twang, a Vanity Fair take on country music whose director of photography is Nancy Lee Andrews; Twang, a monkey who played bass guitar in Animal Kwackers; TWANG, the Toolkit for Weighting and Analysis of Nonequivalent Groups, developed by the statistics group of the RAND Corporation, contains a set of functions to support causal modeling of observational data through the estimation and ...