Post by DT on Oct 4, 2006 0:09:11 GMT -6
When it comes to music I like any music that is played well. And yes country music can be played well.
“Country music is rooted in the folk traditions of the British Isles.”
“Beginning in the 1930s, a generation of singers trained in tough roadside nightspots forged an amplified steel-and-fiddle style known as honky-tonk. Geared toward the young people who left their "home out on the rural route," as honky-tonk performer Hank Williams sang, honky-tonk dealt with loss and spiritual dislocation but also celebrated steppin' out on a Saturday night.”
www.pcplanets.com/videos-1982-Honky-Tonk-Blues.shtml#
“Bluegrass emerged during the same period, from the pioneering vision of Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and other virtuoso stringband instrumentalists. Proudly conservative yet musically adventurous, bluegrass combined the keening austerity of Appalachia with the exuberance of hot jazz. “
www.pcplanets.com/videos-41282-Foggy-Mountain-Breakdown.shtml#
“Rich in both country tradition and the Beale Street blues, the city of Memphis proved to be the ideal setting for what many describe as the birth of rock & roll. Memphis teenager Elvis Presley absorbed the sounds of both Beale Street and the Grand Ole Opry, and fused them into a unique style that changed popular music-including country-forever.”
Rockabilly was created!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-30031-Jailhouse-Rock-Live-.shtml#
And then there was Hank Jr, who put a little rock in country.
www.pcplanets.com/videos-41831-All-My-Rowdy-Friends-Are-Coming-Over-Tonight.shtml#
“With country's youth market and radio clout disappearing, Nashville began mixing pop music elements into country productions to attract the adult audience. In the studios, fiddles and steel guitars gave way to string sections and backing vocalists, as exemplified in the recordings of Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline, for instance. The top producers relied on a small group of studio musicians-the "A-Team"-whose quick adaptability and creative input made them vital to the hit-making process. Behind the scenes, the newly formed Country Music Association promoted the music, and the media began to notice the nationwide popularity of a phenomenon they called the Nashville Sound. In 1960, Time magazine reported that Nashville had "nosed out Hollywood as the nation's second biggest (after New York) record-producing center.”
The one and only Patsy Cline!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-20226-Crazy.shtml#
Toss in a couple of outlaws!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-45490-Bob-Wills-Is-Still-the-King.shtml#
www.pcplanets.com/videos-13623-City-of-New-Orleans.shtml#
And two rock and rollers!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-42457-Picture-featuring-Sheryl-Crow-.shtml#
Now that's COUNTRY!!!!
“Country music is rooted in the folk traditions of the British Isles.”
“Beginning in the 1930s, a generation of singers trained in tough roadside nightspots forged an amplified steel-and-fiddle style known as honky-tonk. Geared toward the young people who left their "home out on the rural route," as honky-tonk performer Hank Williams sang, honky-tonk dealt with loss and spiritual dislocation but also celebrated steppin' out on a Saturday night.”
www.pcplanets.com/videos-1982-Honky-Tonk-Blues.shtml#
“Bluegrass emerged during the same period, from the pioneering vision of Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, and other virtuoso stringband instrumentalists. Proudly conservative yet musically adventurous, bluegrass combined the keening austerity of Appalachia with the exuberance of hot jazz. “
www.pcplanets.com/videos-41282-Foggy-Mountain-Breakdown.shtml#
“Rich in both country tradition and the Beale Street blues, the city of Memphis proved to be the ideal setting for what many describe as the birth of rock & roll. Memphis teenager Elvis Presley absorbed the sounds of both Beale Street and the Grand Ole Opry, and fused them into a unique style that changed popular music-including country-forever.”
Rockabilly was created!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-30031-Jailhouse-Rock-Live-.shtml#
And then there was Hank Jr, who put a little rock in country.
www.pcplanets.com/videos-41831-All-My-Rowdy-Friends-Are-Coming-Over-Tonight.shtml#
“With country's youth market and radio clout disappearing, Nashville began mixing pop music elements into country productions to attract the adult audience. In the studios, fiddles and steel guitars gave way to string sections and backing vocalists, as exemplified in the recordings of Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline, for instance. The top producers relied on a small group of studio musicians-the "A-Team"-whose quick adaptability and creative input made them vital to the hit-making process. Behind the scenes, the newly formed Country Music Association promoted the music, and the media began to notice the nationwide popularity of a phenomenon they called the Nashville Sound. In 1960, Time magazine reported that Nashville had "nosed out Hollywood as the nation's second biggest (after New York) record-producing center.”
The one and only Patsy Cline!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-20226-Crazy.shtml#
Toss in a couple of outlaws!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-45490-Bob-Wills-Is-Still-the-King.shtml#
www.pcplanets.com/videos-13623-City-of-New-Orleans.shtml#
And two rock and rollers!!!!
www.pcplanets.com/videos-42457-Picture-featuring-Sheryl-Crow-.shtml#
Now that's COUNTRY!!!!
