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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 ...
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. Some artists (notably Hank Williams) and fans were offended by the "hillbilly music" label.
Al Dexter, a country musician and songwriter, best known for "Pistol Packin' Mama," a 1944 hit that was one of the most popular recordings of the World War II years. Minnie Pearl; Carl Perkins, pioneer of rockabilly, a fusion of rock and roll and "hillbilly" country music. Red Foley, the first major country star after World War II, host of ...
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.
"Texas" Jean Valli was a hillbilly music singer. [1] Born Gina Rozanna Vadala in 1926, [1] she was raised in Carbondale, Pennsylvania and started playing country-western music and yodeling at age 9 with her own radio show at age 13. [2]
The Darlings (usually pronounced "Darlin's") lived in a mountain shack somewhere in the mountains neighboring Mayberry.The good-natured, but trouble-making Appalachian clan, led by patriarch Briscoe Darling (Denver Pyle) usually came into town when they had some sort of problem that Sheriff Andy Taylor had to resolve.
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 [1] – August 16, 2005 [2]) was an American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler.Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions. [3]
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.