| Its history has its roots in the folk and traditional | | | | well, like Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Carrie |
| music played by the first colonists to reach | | | | Underwood, Tim McGraw, Lady Antebellum and |
| America: traditional folk music, celtic music, gospel | | | | Jason Aldean and of course many more. |
| music and old-time music. It is a blend of popular | | | | Unlike other genres like jazz and the blues, |
| musical forms originally found in the Southern | | | | country music remained consistently popular for |
| United States and the Appalachian Mountains. The | | | | decades. Country music had a profound impact |
| first country music releases in the United States | | | | and now is one of the best-selling genres after |
| began in the early 1920s. The songs were very | | | | rock/pop. The most commonly used musical |
| subjective and personal, expressed loneliness, | | | | instruments in the genre: the fiddle (or violin), the |
| individualism, sadness and love. The term itself | | | | banjo, the guitar, the dobro, the dulcimer, the |
| gained popularity in the 1940s and it was widely | | | | steel guitar, the mandolin, the zither, bass guitar, |
| embraced in the 1970s. | | | | the autoharp, the accordion, the harmonica, the |
| The very first artist who recorded the first genre | | | | piano, washboards and drums. |
| hit was Vernon Dalhart. Some of the widely | | | | Country has changed across the years, different |
| known artists are: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly | | | | themes to sing about, different instruments, but |
| Parton, Patsy Cline, Carter Family, Kitty Wells, | | | | its core remains the same and continues to define |
| Buck Owen, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Bob | | | | itself as different from other commercial music. It |
| Wills, Conway Twitty and George Jones. Today in | | | | is a genre that will always be popular. |
| country music we've got some talented artists as | | | | |