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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.
1962 in country music, Ray Charles releases Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music. 1963 in country music, Tragedies befall country music, with deaths of Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins (plane crash); Jack Anglin (car accident, en route to Cline's funeral) and Texas Ruby (house fire) all in less than a month's span.
In addition, the Nashville sound, based more on pop ballads than on folk music, came to dominate the country and western commercial sales; except for the label, much of the music was indistinguishable from rock and roll or popular classes of music. Country and western were among many genres whose popularity was drowned out by the British Invasion.
Truck-driving country; Western/cowboy music. ... Texas country; Western swing; Zydeco This page was last edited on 19 August 2024, at 02:08 (UTC). Text is ...
Although Mr. Country and Western Music includes many of the heartache and drinking songs that Jones had become famous for, this collection of new recordings sees the singer moving towards the more refined Nashville Sound that had been spearheaded by Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley, and a handful of other producers who saw the potential of sweetening the backing tracks with strings and female singers ...
This is an alphabetical list of country music performers. ... Western Flyer; Tucker Wetmore; Koe Wetzel (born 1992) Billy Edd Wheeler (born 1932) Cheryl Wheeler (born ...
Country Hoedown (1956–65), CBC country-western music series. Country Showdown (1982–present), national country music talent search; finals have aired on GAC and TNN; Country Style, DuMont Network; Country Style, USA, syndicated by the US Army as a recruiting aid
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 ...