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	country and western music. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The primary traditional difference between the two styles is that country music is simpler and uses fewer instruments, relying on guitar, fiddle, banjo, and harmonica, whereas the music of the Southwest tends toward steel guitars and big bands whose style verges on swing (e.g., The Light Crust Doughboys).
		Bluegrass, exemplified by Bill Monroe, is a style of country and western music distinguished by a driving, syncopated rhythm, high-pitched vocals, and an emphasis on the banjo, mandolin, and fiddle.
		Country and western music is directly descended from the folk songs, ballads, and popular songs of the English, Scottish, and Irish settlers of the U.S. southeastern seaboard.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/countryN.html (408 words)

	1986 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1985 in country music, 1986 in music, other events of 1986, 1987 in country music, 1980s in music and the List of years in Country Music
		1986 was a renissance year in country music, with a host of "New Traditionalist"-minded artists reinvigorating a genre that critics were saying had grown increasingly stagnant and pop-oriented.
		Jenifer Strait, the 13-year-old daughter of George Strait (who by now is one of country music's top performers) is killed in a car accident in San Marcos, Texas on June 25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1986_in_country_music (1187 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)

	TIME Magazine: Country Music Archive Collection
		Country has achieved its new luster without abandoning its heritage: a heritage so stubbornly rooted in storytelling and simple melody that it has never quite left behind the farm in Poor Valley, Va., where a moody lumberman named A.P. Carter and his clan picked up guitars seven decades ago and invented the Carter Scratch.
		Country is the nation's most popular music format, with the largest number of radio stations and fans all over.
		Hank, ne Hiram, Williams made what is widely considered to be the loveliest country music recorded in the '40s and early '50s, and had an unmatched ability to glory in sin on one song, repent on the next and carry off both with conviction and hangdog cool.
	www.time.com /time/archive/collections/0,21428,c_country_music,00.shtml (764 words)

	Roughstock's History of Country Music - Garth & New Country
		Country Music is embarking on a new era in 1997.
		The Country Music Superstar of the '90s, Troyal Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on February 7, 1962, and was raised in Yukon, about 100 miles away from Tulsa.
		By the time Garth was born, she had retired from a professional career and the Brooks' house reverberated with as much rock and pop music as country.
	www.roughstock.com /history/garthnew.html (919 words)

	Preface
		For many years, American country music[1] singers and songwriters have used proverbs[2] in their songs,[3] and this tradition has continued over the past eleven years.
		While country music singers and lyricists have continued to employ sayings in traditional wording, they have more frequently changed the wording for purposes of rhyme or meter or to fit the needs of modern people.
		Country music is "an American style of popular music, developed from the folk music of the rural southern USA and first known as Hillbilly music.
	www.deproverbio.com /DPbooks/FOLSOM/preface.html (1854 words)

	Definitions of Style - Country Music
		Generally regarded exclusively as the music of white southerners (and often called "the white man's blues"), country music has in fact been deeply influenced by African Americans, who have contributed and listened to country music from its origins to the present day.
		Jimmie Rodgers, known as "the father of country music," was greatly influenced by the music of fl railroad workers and fl musicians with whom he played in medicine shows.
		Explores fl and white musical interaction in the South and the cross-pollination between country music and soul music.
	www.cbmr.org /styles/country.htm (665 words)

	Malone, Country Music, U.S.A., University of Texas Press
		Country Music, U.S.A. has won universal acclaim as the definitive history of American country music.
		Starting with the music's folk roots in the rural South, it traces country music from the early days of radio to the beginning of the twenty-first century.
		Immersed in country music since his birth, Bill C. Malone has been both a scholar and a performer of the music for several decades.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/books/malc2p.html (234 words)

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		The chapters are roughly divided into three sections: "Origins," "The Golden Age of Hillbilly Music," and "Contemporary Country Coast to Coast." The topics within the sections include early rockabilly, country fans, the lives of country music stars, the business of country music, the changing image of country music, and country music today.
		This book, first published in 1968, is still widely respected as the pioneering and most comprehensive study of the history of country music from its pre-commercial folk roots through the development of the modern country music industry.
		Before the Grand Ole Opry, and before Nashville had become the center of the country music industry, country music developed in Tennessee "from sources as diverse as rural ballads and fiddle music, church music of the country singing conventions, and the fl music of the Southwestern delta area." Wolfe explores all of these sources.
	library.music.indiana.edu /tech_s/mla/wgpms/wgpms.cou (2446 words)

	Blue Ridge Country: Bristol, The Real Home of Country Music? Jimmie Rodgers & Carter Family
		Country music's first stars -- Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family -- both recorded in Bristol as early as 1927.
		Nobody was calling it "country music." But by 1927, recording engineers for a handful of labels were scrambling to record "hillbilly music," often conducting field recording sessions.
		The senates of both Virginia and Tennessee have recognized Bristol as the birthplace of country music.
	www.blueridgecountry.com /music/music.html (2118 words)

	Country Artists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		First breaking onto the musical landscape as the lead vocalist and songwriter for Pure Prairie League, Vince Gill firmly established his own solo career with a string of chart-topping hits starting in 1985.
		Country music legend and Hee Haw pioneer Roy Clark is widely acclaimed for his guitar virtuosity in both traditional and classical styles, his homespun humor, and his chart-topping cross-over country hits such as "Yesterday When I Was Young", "Thank God and Greyhound You’re Gone", and "Come Live With Me".
		Five albums later, the country music world considers Wynonna one of the major stars in country’s solar system.
	www.pietalent.com /country.html (496 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Travis, Carter carry on tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The lanky country star became an overnight success when he was named Top New Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 1985.
		The trademark classic country disc is being released at a time when "classic" and "country" are considered "cool" and "hip." Many artists and industry insiders credit Travis with first bringing this association together, exposing the country music genre to the masses and paving the way for other artists.
		Country music lovers will have double the opportunity to enjoy an evening of entertainment with the booking of both western stalwarts.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/1997/dec/02/506557638.html (490 words)

	"FROM SWEETHEARTS TO SADDLE PALS: THE EMERGING ROLES OF FEMALE PERFORMERS IN COUNTRY MUSIC" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A part of the problem lies in the fact that recorded country music from the pre-1940 period is difficult to find, but it is also likely that women performers were far less numerous during this period.
		Coltman (1978:161) reports of that of the 377 pieces of recorded country music from the period 1922-1931 he had heard, only 12 (3%) were female soloists or all female groups, only 5% of the records were male groups who would feature a female soloist, and only about 5% were known to feature women as instrumentalists.
		This is not to diminish the importance of the contributions made by those women who were involved in commercial country music's formative years, but to suggest that the socially scripted roles of southern white women prior to World War II may have suppressed their role in commercial music.
	www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/COURSES/SOC417/women.html (3723 words)

	Garth Brooks presented by Thanks for the Music - Country Music for the Country Music Enthusiast
		In an unprecedented feat for a country artist, Garth's third album, Ropin' the Wind, reached the number-one spot on Billboard's pop music charts the first week of its release.
		To the pop music industry, this brash country singer seemed to emerge from nowhere to capture the fancy of the American public.
		Though born into a musical family (his mother recorded for Captiol Records and appeared on Ozark Jubilee in the 1950s), Brooks didn't pick up a guitar until he was a junior in high school.
	thanksforthemusic.com /spotlight/garthbrooks (996 words)

	1985 in country music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See also: 1984 in country music, 1985 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in country music, 1980s in music and the List of years in Country Music
		A story published in the New York Times declares that country music is "dead." However, a number of new acts – Randy Travis and Dwight Yoakam among them – are working behind the scenes to change the trend.
		Music Video of the Year -- Hank Williams, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985_in_country_music (934 words)

	Wikipedia: 1985 in music
		See also: 1984 in music, other events of 1985, 1986 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music'
		August 1 - Michael Jackson purchases the publishing rights for most of the Beatles' music for $47 million, much to the dismay of the surviving members of the band.
		December 5 - The first fully digital reggae single, Wayne Smith's 'Under Me Sleng Teng', is recorded at Prince Jammy's studio; it is the beginning of ragga style reggae.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/1/19/1985_in_music.html (366 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Eugene Chadbourne: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Chadbourne was quite unique in the history of music for been at the same time an avantgarde composer in the classical tradition, a jazz improviser, a folk musician and a member of a rock band.
		Country Music In The World Of Islam (Fundamental, 1989) collects music from the tape series of the same name, originally recorded in 1985, and features the Sun City Girls and Elliott Sharp.
		Medley In C, from Country Protest (Fundamental, 1986), is a sprightly eleven-minute collage in which, accompanied by the Red Clay Ramblers and others, Chadbourne revisits the history of rock music.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol3/chadbour.html (1315 words)

	Kitty Wells, Queen of Country Music
		During one of these appearances, she met Johnny Wright of the Country duo Johnny and Jack.
		She was voted "Country Female Artist" by all the major trade publictions for 14 consecutive years.
		She was to become the undisputed "Queen Of Country Music", and her achievents have never been topped by any other female Country singer.
	www.angelfire.com /space/timbereagle/kittyw.html (335 words)

	Amazon.com: Country: Music: Patsy Cline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Music Mill Entertainment compiled this project of a raw and very country talent, Patsy Cline Country, from these 4-Star sessions.
		Glamorized in the 1985 film Sweet Dreams were the tumultuous life and tragic death of Patsy Cline.
		That legacy includes being the first female performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1973 and being one of the best-selling country artists of all time.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00007M9NN?v=glance (778 words)

	Hillman Odyssey 401: Music Festivals: Boggy Creek Mountain Music and more
		We were hired as a feature act and part-time organizers at one of the newest and biggest outdoor music festivals in Canada: The Boggy Creek Mountain Music Festival in Manitoba's Duck Mountains.
		With this accomplished they had time to realize another long-time dream: to organize an outdoor music festival and to bring Tennessee mountain and bluegrass music to the "wilds" of Canada.
		Country singers Bill and Sue-On Hillman of Strathclair will join entertainers from six Canadian provinces and the United States for the Second Annual Boggy Creek Mountain Music Festival today until Sunday.
	www.angelfire.com /trek/hillmans2/h401.html (682 words)

	MUS390 Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Course Objectives: This course provides a survey of the principal factors leading to the growth and development of the various types of music commonly labeled "Country" or "Country & Western," both as a musical style and a social/cultural phenomenon.
		By the end of the course the student should have an understanding of various country styles, some significant figures and events in the history of country music, and a systematic process for thinking about the music.
		Supplementary listenings may be available in the listening center of the Music Library.
	www.uky.edu /~ldnels00/mus390/syllabus.html (430 words)

	Katy Moffatt:Country Western Music Recording Artist:Songwriter:Junction Entertainment Booking Agent
		The most memorable American roots music -- be it western, country, folk, rock or the blues -- is always informed by a simple fact of life: you live and you learn.
		I've been waiting a long time for Katy to share her vision of this music, and that time is now." To facilitate this task, Wilkie assembled a tight acoustic string band with legendary Texas guitarist Rich O'Brien, Denver stand-up bassist Mary Stribling, and Katy on her old Martin D-28, with David contributing mandolin and guitar.
		A move to Californiain 1979landed her within a burgeoning community of like-minded country rockers, and after recording another unreleased album (whose three single releases earned her the ACM nomination), Moffatt appeared on the groundbreaking A Town South of Bakersfield compilation amid kindred spirits such as Dwight Yoakum and Rosie Flores.
	www.junctionentertainment.com /junctionentertainment/katy_moffatt.html (920 words)

	Country Christian FAQ v. 2.01
		Descriptions of the artists listed - their musical style (gospel, bluegrass, traditional country, new/pop country); lyrical qualities ("Christian music" or "music made by Christians"); similar artists or those who have influenced the person or group.
		Gram had a propensity for writing beautiful Christian music on Sundays and guzzling whiskey and sticking needles in his arm on Mondays through Saturdays (a trend that, unfortunately, is not limited to him in country music).
		For those who haven't turned their radio to a country station, or turned on their TV lately, Travis is a MegaSuperStar in Mainstream country.
	www.netads.com /rmc/ccfaq.html (1817 words)

	Country Music Research Aid
		Finally, the contributions of women in the development of country music.
		Country: The Music and the Musicians: Pickers, Slickers, Cheatin' Hearts, and Superstars.
		MUSIC REF ML 102.F66 R4 The Folk, Country, and Bluegrass Musician's Catalogue.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/music/country1.html (240 words)

	Country Music News Canadian country Music Artists CD's CDs CD Nashville report
		Dick Nolan recorded over 40 albums of Country and Down East music during his lengthy career, and is likely best recognized for his 1972 country novelty hit, Aunt Martha’s Sheep.
		In a story published in the June 1985 edition of Country Music News, Nolan told how the song, which he co-wrote with fellow Newfoundlander Ellis Coles, was thought to be an album filler only on his Fisherman’s Boy Lp.
		Subscribe to Country Music News; it's packed full of stories and the latest CD reviews, all delivered right to your door every month.
	www.countrymusicnews.ca /news.ihtml?step=2&article_id=1026 (590 words)

	MCMAHOF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To promote Country Music, in all its various categories and names, in a manner that shall keep it clean, wholesome, enjoyable and pleasurable form of entertainment for all people.
		This award is presented with the cooperation of the Maine Country Music Association and the MacKenzie Family.
		The award is presnted to a person or persons who have proven their devotion to Traditional Country Music.
	www.crosslink.net /~bigmack9/mcmahof.htm (367 words)

	Lee Greenwood and Other Country Music Stars Are Available Thru Barber & Associates, Entertainment Broker & Corporate ...
		He was quick to acquire the musical and business skills that would prove necessary for his life as an entertainer.
		His feel for country music, coupled with his electrifying performances, quickly established him as a major artist.
		In 1985, a less publicized facet of his talent was recognized when the CMA awarded him Song of the Year honors for penning both the words and music to "God Bless The USA."
	www.barberusa.com /country/greenwood_lee.html (1231 words)

	1985 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music (Country, UK) - Television - Home video
		For the song by Bowling for Soup, see 1985 (song).
		1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1985 (2743 words)

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