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  Trisha Yearwood - KnowledgeIsFun.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Trisha Yearwood (born 19 September 1964) is a country music singer.
She was born in Monticello, Georgia, but developed her musical talent in Nashville, Tennessee, where she was a student at Belmont University.
Musically, Yearwood cites Linda Ronstadt as her biggest influence, and Ronstadt's sound and vocal stylings are clearly apparent in Yearwood's music.
www.knowledgeisfun.com /T/Tr/Trisha-Yearwood.php   (193 words)

  
 1965 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1964 in country music, 1965 in music, other events of 1965, 1966 in country music, 1960s in music and the List of years in Country Music
August 28 - Shania Twain, mega country star since the latter half of the 1990s.
Kingsbury, Paul, "The Grand Ole Opry: History of Country Music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1965_in_country_music   (573 words)

  
 Traditional country music
Country music was a form that evolved out of Anglo-Saxon ballads brought over originally by the first Americans in the 17th century, and evolving over time.
Country music was first recorded when record company scouts set up a studio in Bristol, Tennessee (in the northwestern part of the state on the border of Virginia) and put ads out inviting local people to come and record.
Though country music went through important changes through the years (the invention of bluegrass and honky tonk in the 1940s, many other later developments) and changed dramatically, the traditional qualities of the music's beginnings remained in many of these later developments.
www.timeisonourside.com /STTradCountry.html   (1089 words)

  
 Lebanon (country) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lebanon (country)
Country in western Asia, bounded north and east by Syria, south by Israel, and west by the Mediterranean Sea.
After the establishment of Israel in 1948, thousands of Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), founded in Beirut in 1964, had its headquarters in Lebanon 1971–82 (it moved to Tunis in 1982).
Hezbollah guerrillas, however, remained active in the south of the country, provoking intermittent raids by Israeli forces which continued to occupy a buffer zone.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lebanon+(country)   (1914 words)

  
 1963 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1962 in country music, 1963 in music, other events of 1963, 1964 in country music, 1960s in music and the List of years in Country Music
March 1963 marked a dark time for country music, as it lost no less than five people in a seemingly endless string of tragedies.
On March 5, three of the genre's top stars - Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas - are killed in a small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on their way to Nashville from St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1963_in_country_music   (545 words)

  
 Popular Music and Society: Dutch Country Music: Between Creative Appropriation and Mere Epigonism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This notwithstanding the fact that there are older musical traditions in the Netherlands such as old sailors' ballads, accordion music, street-band, carnival-like music, brass band music, waltz and polka dancing which have clear affinities with specific subgenres of country music, particularly Tex-Mex music.
He first got to know country music there when he replaced a guitar player of a country group from Arizona, who had become ill. When he returned to Holland at the end of 1946 he met the Veldberg family who wanted to play country, from which the Chico's emerged.
At the time their music was called "cowboy music." Their singing in parts was modeled on the singing style of The Sons of the Pioneers.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_1_22/ai_54033282   (1351 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article: 1964 in music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
1965 in music (additional info and facts about 1965 in music), 1960s in music (additional info and facts about 1960s in music) and the list of 'years in music' (additional info and facts about list of 'years in music')
Classical music (Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)
Musical theater (A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing)
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1964_in_music.htm   (3738 words)

  
 Country Music: Timeline (Patchwork Quilt: Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music, I Hear America Singing, Library ...
Music and stories are handed down from generation to generation orally, but popular music publishing carries on nevertheless.
Music is integral to American life in the 19th century.
Country music, radio, and movie star Gene Autry moves to television with the introduction of the Gene Autry Show.
lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/ihas/html/dollyparton/country-timeline.html   (1886 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
His smooth, warm baritone was a major component of the sophisticated, pop-influenced Nashville Sound that emerged during the late 1950s and early 1960s and boosted country music to new commercial heights while strengthening Nashville’s role as a music center.
Even as a boy, he became fascinated by music; by the time he was twelve he was singing and playing guitar at local dances and playing with a band on Shreveport, Louisiana, radio station KRMD.
As the Country Music Association (CMA) began to push country-pop sounds in converting radio stations to country formats, Reeves became a natural with stations that followed the new Nashville Sound trend.
www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/jim_reeves.html   (625 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Country Music
From the cool country of L.A. in the '70s and '80s to the blood-red redneck music of Haggard in Bakersfield, the musical landscape was a tangle of influences and contradictions.
Although the music was country, western and gospel, their approach was pumped up with showmanship.
In their story of a family moving into music straight from migrant farming, you'd think you were seeing another example of how country music was brought here by the Dust Bowl.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/05.13.99/cover/country-9919.html   (2882 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - 'Hillbilly Hollywood' - Country Music Movies
Country music movies often featured some sort of plot involving rural idiots getting themselves into all kinds of trouble.
In addition to showcasing the era's top country talent, 'Hillbilly Hollywood', like many awful movie fads before and since, was often the final celluloid resting place of faded stars and thespians who had previously known better than to get involved in hokum like this.
And in the impossibly remote antiquity before music videos, these movies were a major outlet for country music to be exposed to wider audiences.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A540532   (892 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
After his musical activities in college days, which included street-singing, he began to sing regularly at KWKH in Shreveport.
Since serving as Louisiana’s governor for a second term from 1960 to 1964 (elected largely on a segregationist platform), he recorded for Decca and afterward for a handful of small labels.
Davis was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1972, the year after he lost the election for his third-term governorship.
www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/jimmie_davis.html   (555 words)

  
 The Country Music Planet Present Pop Stoneman A Real Legend!
The Country Music Planet is extremely proud to present Pop Stoneman and The Stoneman Family, early pioneers in both bluegrass music and country music!
Some would say that her roots are in American Music, but this writer says that American Music roots are in her and the rest of THE STONEMAN FAMILY.
She is a fantastic entertainer, and her singing is pure country with those clear mountain sounds coming from somewhere deep within from a place most of us can't even imagine.
www.countrymusicplanet.com /roni.htm   (785 words)

  
 The ARChive of Contemporary Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Country artist Vernon Dalhart born in Jefferson, TX.
Country music superstar Merle Haggard born in Bakersfield, CA.
Jack Sherman looses his court case against the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the court saying he waited too long to sue (89 years) and not believing that the reason was that child abuse made him passive.
www.arcmusic.org /data/today/apr/apr6.htm   (96 words)

  
 Roughstock's History of Country Music - Nashville Sound
The music in this era was an outcropping of the big band jazz and swing of the '30s, '40s and early '50s, combined with the storytelling of honky-tonkers.
Originally a stone country singer, smooth-toned Jim Reeves from Texas reached amazing heights as a pop balladeer and since his death in an air crash his fame has burgeoned into cult proportions.
Voted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1967, Reeves continued to log hits posthumously as recently as the 1970s and '80s.
www.roughstock.com /history/nashsound.html   (883 words)

  
 Elvis' 1964 Gretsch Country Gentleman
During at least the early part of 1970 Elvis often performed in concert on stage with both his 56 J200 and this 1964 Gretsch Country Gentleman, model #6122.
These features are typical transition 1964 era, since they had dropped the double mutes in favor of a single lever type, phased-in about '65~'66.
Coincidentally the Filtertron pickups were developed for Gretsch by Ray Butts, the same man who made Scotty Moore's Echosonic amplifier and the pickups in his Gibson Chet Atkins guitars.
www.scottymoore.net /ep64Gretsch.html   (534 words)

  
 Utah Radio Guide - Country Radio Stations
And although the music has changed quite a bit since the day it signed on, KSOP has been spinning the country music since 1964!
The signal, which is licensed to the city of Oakley, Utah is buried deep in the Unitas.
Country disc jockeys heard on KSOP FM, can also be heard on KSOP AM.
www.utradioguide.com /country.htm   (485 words)

  
 Century of Country
Country music fans remember Jimmie Riddle as one of the genre’s great harmonica players.
From his mid-teens, he worked with various musical groups including the Pea Ridge Ramblers at WMC radio.
His most notable early work was at WREC with a Western Swing Group, the Swift Jewel Cowboys, with whom he recorded in 1939, being featured on three harmonica tunes.
www.countryworks.com /artist_full.asp?KEY=RIDDLE   (549 words)

  
 Century of Country
Joe and Rose Lee Maphis made up one of Country music’s major husband-wife teams of the 50’s and 60’s.
At 15, she put her musical talents to work on local station WJEJ, where she joined three other girls to form the Saddle Sweethearts.
Country Music." Joe also recorded guitar albums for Starday and others for Kapp, Sacred and Mosrite.
www.countryworks.com /artist_full.asp?KEY=MAPHIS   (992 words)

  
 Jean Shepard Discography -- Slipcue.Com Guide To Hick Music
Musically, her records were uniformly solid right up through the late '60s, and she had the perfect "country" voice, combined with a sharp, acerbic wit and mature perspective.
For the hard country fan, Jean Shepard's work is both a blessing and a revelation -- unfortunately, outside of a handful of excellent reissues, most of her records remain out of print...
Although feminist themes run strong in Shepard's work, it's really the music that makes her so special: she was one of the best country singers of her generation, on equal footing to Carl Smith, George Jones, or anyone else you'd care to mention.
www.slipcue.com /music/country/countryartists/jean_shepard.html   (864 words)

  
 Arhoolie Records
The music of the Michoacan Hotlands (Tierra Caliente) uses a variety of string instruments, harp, and voices to create a music that is simultaneously earthy and a bit otherworldly.
In the history of popular and vernacular music it is usually hard to pinpoint the genesis of a new genre or style on one particular individual.
The early music of the Hackberry Ramblers was an original and marvelous blend of Cajun and Western Swing, all propelled by the tremendous fiddle playing of Luderin Darbone.
www.arhoolie.com   (2958 words)

  
 Tex Ritter MP3 Downloads - Tex Ritter Music Downloads - Tex Ritter Music Videos
To draw a comparison to the old style of music listening, a download is like buying a single, and a stream is like hearing the song on the radio.
Downloaded music lives on your computer, and can be transferred to any compatible portable device.
Several online music services wrap their song files in DRM in order to have control over what you do with the files.
mp3.cnet.com /albums/391137/downloads.html   (597 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia:
So greatly has our honest of attitude to sexual peccadilloes altered that The Merry Muses can now be bought as a paperback on railway station bookstalls.
It seems unlikely that any of the riddles ably examined by Hilton Brown in There Was a Lad (1949) will now be unraveled, though 'lost' Burns manuscripts will no doubt turn up from time to time.
Linn Records have completed their landmark recording of all 368 Burns songs, available as individual CDs or a 12 volume presentation box set.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/introduction.shtml   (1490 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Country Music : The Encyclopedia: Books: Irwin Stambler,Grelun Landon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The reference-style layout promises to be useful and is augmented with a general index and specialized indexes of performer, song title, album title, and type of music.
I'm not a huge fan of country music, but I found this encyclopedia, with its many interviews and interesting tidbits, to be a fascinating read.
The author seems to have amazing access to many of the most prominent country music stars and fills his accounts with witty accounts of the stars' lives.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312264879?v=glance   (817 words)

  
 Nashville - Tennessean.com - Middle Tennessee Music City
Music writers split hairs over the best offerings of 2005
Music industry fears gadgets that store songs from radio
The sights and sounds of country in New York
www.tennessean.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=ENTERTAINMENT50&template=front   (239 words)

  
 Visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN
The Grand Tour: George Jones Country, a salute to one of country music's greatest living singers.
All For The Hall™ brings together artists, musicians, and anyone who loves and appreciates country music for a common goal – to preserve the legacy of the music that inspires us.
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation
www.countrymusichalloffame.com   (244 words)

  
 Gentleman Jim
music that influenced him early on in life.
White, a schoolteacher, and became a disc jockey at a country
Thus was ended the life of one of country music's best performers.
www.geocities.com /driftin/dec_feature.html   (548 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Classic Country: 1950-1964 [Import] [Compilation]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This four-disc set collects 60 tracks that made the country charts between 1950 and 1964, and includes "North to Alaska" (Johnny Horton), "Saginaw, Michigan" (Lefty Frizzell), and "El Paso" (Marty Robbins), in addition to strong tracks by Patsy Cline, Don Gibson, Webb Pierce, Jim Reeves, Roger Miller, and Johnny Cash.
The Time-Life Music people set out to offer some of the more representative hits of country music from 1950-1964, and this sixty-song, four-CD set should satisfy anyone who loves classic country.
The song selection demonstrates an interest and understanding of country music that a single-label retrospective cannot, and the recordings' remastering makes the sound as crisp and fresh as can be.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AQHL   (491 words)

  
 Country Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
From the Cowboys, to the Rodeo, to the Ranchers, to the Oilmen, to Western Music and Western Hospitality.
KUBB Country 96.3 fm is your country music station in Merced, CA.
New country website is popular for its recent stories and images of artists, bands and stars from Canada who also tour the world....
www.jackin4beats.com /links/countrymusic.html   (4065 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Trouble in Mind [the Doc Watson Country Blues Collection 1964-1998]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Music Special Offers: get 3 CDs for £10, and more great deals.
Doc sings and performs in what could be categorised asseveral different styles: blues, old-time, fiddle tunes, gospel and more.This compilation focusses on one particular style: country blues.
If you'relooking for a cross section of Doc's work then this is well worth it.There's also a companion 'tunes only' album and together they are a reallygood set.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008L3UZ   (359 words)

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