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1950s ATTEMPT TO MAKE COUNTRY SOUND CLOSER TO MAINSTREAM POP USING PIANO, STRINGS & BACKING VOCALS INSTEAD OF OLD-TIME INSTRUMENTS
STYLES 200
FORM OF COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC THAT WAS BROADER IN SCOPE THAN ITS PARENT GENRE—BROUGHT JAZZ, HILLBILLY, BOOGIE, BLUES, BIG BAND SWING, RHUMBA, MARIACHI, JITTERBUG MUSIC & MORE TOGETHER—BOB WILLS WAS ITS “KING”
STYLES 300
INTRICATE, ACOUSTIC 2 & 3-PART HARMONIES, ENERGETIC DRIVE, UNBRIDLED EMOTION, “HIGH LONESOME” SOUND—BILL MONROE WAS ITS “FATHER”
STYLES 400
REBELLION AGAINST NASHVILLE SOUND, ITS NO-FRILLS ROOTS APPROACH WAS USED BY JOHNNY CASH, WAYLON JENNINGS & WILLIE NELSON, AMONG OTHERS
STYLES 500
MARRIED RHYTHM & BLUES WITH COUNTRY, A MEMPHIS SOUND POPULAR FROM 1953 TO THE END OF THE DECADE (JUST ASK ELVIS & JERRY LEE LEWIS, AMONG OTHERS)
POTPOURRI 100
“FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” RECORDED “WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN “FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” RECORDED “WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?” IN THE FIRST BRISTOL SESSIONS OF 1927
POTPOURRI 200
IMPRISONED AND PARDONED TWICE, HIS FELLOW INMATES GAVE HUDIE LEDBETTER HIS NICKNAME BASED ON HIS LAST NAME AND HIS PHYSICAL TOUGHNESS
POTPOURRI 300
COUNTRY’S 1970’s CROSSOVER TO POP; BLAND, WATERED-DOWN COUNTRY SUNG BY JOHN DENVER, ANNE MURRAY, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, KENNY ROGERS AND MORE
POTPOURRI 400
YOU’D BE CRAZY NOT TO LISTEN TO THIS NASHVILLE SOUND SINGER WHO FELL TO PIECES
POTPOURRI 500
HE ACTED NATURALLY AND CREATED THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND (AND HOSTED HEE HAW)
PEOPLE 100
BORN LEONARD SLYE, BECAME THE “KING OF THE COWBOYS” WHEN GENE AUTRY BREIFLY WALKED OUT OF HIS CONTRACT—HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU…
PEOPLE 200
“AMERICA’S FAVORITE COWBOY,” ONLY ENTERTAINER TO HAVE ALL 5 STARS ON HOLLYWOOD’S WALK OF FAME
PEOPLE 300
THE “KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” HE BACKED FRED ROSE IN THE FORMATION OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE THAT HELPED ESTABLISH NASHVILLE AS MUSIC CITY, USA
PEOPLE 400
“THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” A/K/A “THE SINGIN’ BRAKEMAN,” A/K/A “THE BLUE YODELER” – THE FIRST COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR
PEOPLE 500
“THE GREAT HISTORICAL BUM,” HIS GUITAR OFTEN READ “THIS MACHINE KILLS FACISTS” – HIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, TOO
MORE PEOPLE 100
COMBINED ROY ACUFF’S TRADITION WITH ERNEST TUBB’S HONKY-TONK STYLE; PLAGUED WITH DRUNKNESS & UNRELIABILITY
MORE PEOPLE 200
THE FATHER OF THIS STYLE OF MUSIC, WHICH HAS HARD-DRIVING MANDOLIN SOLOS AND TENSE, HIGH-PITCHED VOCALS
MORE PEOPLE 300
THE FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC FROM MACES SPRINGS, VA; RECORDED AT THE BRISTOL SESSIONS
MORE PEOPLE 400
OUTLAW COUNTRY MAN-IN-BLACK WHO MARRIED INTO THE FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC
MORE PEOPLE 500
DREAMED OF COPYING JIMMIE ROGERS, ROGERS’ WIDOW HELPED SET UP HIS FIRST RECORDING SESSION—“THE TEXAS TROUBADOR” IS WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU, HONKY-TONK STYLE
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