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Americana: A more recent and emerging format that plays more Modern "Authentic Country music" that often plays music from the modern country subgenres of Americana and Alt-Country, along with roots music. Classic Country is also common on these stations and is often from the Honky Tonk, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Western Swing, Bakersfield sound ...
Country. 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.
Ray Price, traditional country star of the '50s and '60s, who experienced pop success in the '70s and '80s. Charley Pride, the first black country music star in the 1970s and early 1980s. Best known for "Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'." Jeanne Pruett, female vocalist of the 70s, best known for the song "Satin Sheets".
number-one country songs. Eddy Arnold, Conway Twitty and George Strait have all held the record for the greatest number of country number ones. Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing country music songs in the United States since 1944. The first country chart was published under the title Most Played Juke Box Folk ...
Outlaw country. Outlaw country[ 2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.
Bakersfield sound. 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] It was also a reaction against the ...
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Country Music was a multi-volume set of recordings released by the Smithsonian Institution. Released in 1981, the collection contains 143 tracks deemed to be significantly important to the history of country music . Classic Country Music was issued in eight volumes — either vinyl albums, cassette tapes or ...
Classic country; Country and Irish; Country blues; Country en Español; ... Truck-driving country; Western/cowboy music. New Mexico music; Red dirt; Tejano/Tex-Mex ...