2-Music-History-Country Music

Richardson D

He lived 1898 to 1954.

Carson John

He lived 1868 to 1949. His daughter Rosa Lee was Moonshine Kate.

Dalhart V

He lived 1883 to 1948.

Stoneman E

He lived 1893 to 1968 and was from Blue Ridge Mountains.

Poole C

He lived 1892 to 1931 and led the North Carolina Ramblers.

Puckett G

He lived 1894 to 1946 and was in Clayton McMichen's Hometown Band and the Skillet Lickers.

Bailey D

He lived 1899 to 1982.

Skillet Lickers

Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. He lived 1885 to 1960.

Rodgers J country music

He lived 1897 to 1933 and sang the blues. He was the Singing Brakeman and the Blue Yodeler.

Carter Family

He lived 1891 to 1960. Sara Doughtety Carter lived 1898 to 1979 and played autoharp and guitar. Maybelle Carter lived 1909 to 1978 and played guitar.

Carter W

He lived 1904 to 2006.

Ritter T

He lived 1905 to 1974 and sang western music.

Autry Whitley

Autry lived 1907 to 1998. Whitley lived 1901 to 1979.

Wills B

He lived 1905 to 1975 and led the Wills Fiddle Band, Light Crust Doughboys, and the Texas Playboys.

Hershey Swander

Swander lived 1906 to ?.

Tubbs E

He lived 1914 to 1984.

Arnold Ed

He lived 1918 to 2008.

Crudup A

He lived 1905 to 1974 and played rockabilly.

Reisfeld Villard

Reisfeld lived 1906 to 1974.

Flatt Scruggs

They played with the Foggy Mountain Boys. Flatt lived 1914 to 1979 and played five-string banjo. Scruggs lived 1924 to ? and played banjo.

Travis M

He lived 1917 to 1983.

Stewart King

Stewart lived 1923 to 2003. King lived 1914 to 1999.

Jones Cash

Cash lived 1932 to 2003. Jones lived 1914 to 1963.

Williams Ha

He lived 1923 to 1953.

Foley R

He lived 1910 to 1968 and played Texas Swing guitar.

Snow H

He lived 1914 to 1999.

Evans D

She lived 1912 to 2001.

Price R

He lived 1926 to ? and played honky tonk, as in the 4/4 country shuffle called the Ray Price beat.

Endsley M

He lived 1934 to 2004.

Yount Miller Williams

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Flagg B

Bill Flagg and His Rockabillies. He lived 1934 to ? and played the first rockabilly.

James So

He lived 1929 to ? and was the "country gentleman".

Cash J

He lived 1932 to 2003.

Bryant Bryant

Boudleaux Bryant lived 1920 to 1987. Felice Bryant lived 1925 to 2003.

Acuff R

He lived 1903 to 1992.

Cline P

She lived 1932 to 1963.

Allison J

Joe Allison lived 1924 to 2002.

Pierce W

He lived 1921 to ?.

Clark R

He lived 1933 to ?.

Dean Ji

He lived 1928 to ?.

Loudermilk J

He lived 1934 to ?.

Owens Buckaroos

He lived 1929 to 2006.

Miller Ro

He lived 1936 to ?.

Atkins C

He lived 1924 to 2001.

Haggard M

He lived 1937 to ? and played Western swing.

Lynn L

She lived 1935 to ?.

Hartford J

He lived 1937 to 2001.

Kristofferson K

He lived 1936 to ?.

Pride C

He lived 1938 to ?.

Russell Bo

He lived 1913 to 2002.

Wynette T

She lived 1942 to 1998.

Weissberg E

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Sommers Joh

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Schlitz D

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Nelson W

He lived 1933 to ?.

Black C

He lived 1962 to ?.

Brooks G

He lived 1962 to ?.

Cyrus B

He lived 1961 to ?.

2-Music-History-Country Music-Styles

Western Swing

Country dance music {Western Swing}| {Country Swing} can be in southwest-USA style. Bob Wills lived 1905 to 1975 and led the Texas Playboys.

Appalachian style music

Appalachian-Mountain folk music {Appalachian style} derived from old English styles.

Cajun music

New-Orleans syncopated two-step or waltz music {Cajun music}| can use fiddle and accordion. It came from French Catholic sources. D. L. Menard, Dewey Balfa, Belton Richard, Blind Uncle Gaspard, and Harry Choates preceded Balfa Toujours, Steve Riley, the Mamou Playboys, and La Bande Feufollet.

jug band

Country music can use different-size jugs {jug band}|, guitar, washtub, washboard, spoons, kazoo, and mandolin. Players blow air across jug tops.

rockabilly

Arthur Crudup, Elvis, Sam Perkins, and Bill Flagg played {rockabilly}|.

western music

Folk ballads can be western-movie style {western music}|. Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were western music singers.

Zydeco country

Music {Zydeco}| developed from Creole music and New Orleans style jazz [1910 to 1930]. Southwest-Louisiana syncopated fast-paced music {la-la} {zodico} uses accordions or melodeons, corrugated metal boards {frottoir} {rub-board}, drums, and electric guitars. Amédé Ardoin [1928], Beau Jocque, Boozoo Chavis, Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Rockin' Sidney are Zydeco musicians. Rockin' Sidney played My Toot Toot.

bluegrass music

South-USA folk music {bluegrass, music}| uses mandolin, violin, banjo, or guitar at fast tempo. It often has improvisations as instruments take the melody in turn, as in jazz. It derived from British folk music. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys began bluegrass [1939]. The Foggy Mountain Boys, the Stanley Brothers, and Don Reno followed. Earl Scruggs used three-finger banjo roll {Scruggs style}. Lester Flatt sang and played guitar.

Bakersfield Sound

Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Roy Clark developed modern country sounds {Bakersfield Sound}.

Nashville Sound

Modern country music {Nashville Sound} uses jazz and popular styles. Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson, Patsy Cline, and Floyd Cramer were stars in the first decade. It became countrypolitan in later 1960's.

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