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Country music, the first half of Billboard's country and western music category, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s so that often Americana is substituted for some roots mixtures of the genres. The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s.
In the Southwestern United States a different mix of ethnic groups from Mexico, the British Isles, Germany, and the Czech Republic created the music that became the Western music of the term Country Western.
Mainstream Country music has produced two of the top selling solo artists of all time. Elvis Presley, "The Hillbilly Cat," appeared on the Louisiana Hayride for three years, went on to help define rock ‘n’ roll, and was nicknamed "The King". Garth Brooks, except for a short foray into non-country near the end of his recording career, recorded and performed country music and is one top selling solo artist. (read more . . . )
Ace of Hearts was the budget record label owned by Decca Records in the UK, with the aim of reissuing a whole range of American popular music in LP form from their extensive back catalogue. The label issued 184(?) LPs between 1961 and 1973 and included recordings by Bing Crosby, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. Vocal groups are represented by the Ink Spots and the Mills Brothers, folk and traditional country music by Burl Ives, Uncle Dave Macon and the Carter Family, rock and roll by Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Brenda Lee and Johnny Burnette, blues by Josh White, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (as well as two compilation albums issued under the title "Out came the blues", and jazz by Louis Armstrong, Eddie Condon, King Oliver, Art Tatum, etc.
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Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Johnny Cash (born J. R. Cash, February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American, multi Grammy Award-winning influential country/Rock and Roll singer-songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter June Carter Cash.
Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the boom-chick-a-boom or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his demeanor, and his dark clothing, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black." He traditionally started his concerts with the simple introduction "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
Much of Cash's music, especially that of his later career, echoed themes of sorrow, moral tribulation, and redemption. His signature songs include "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison Blues", "Hurt", "Ring of Fire", "That Old Wheel" (a duet with Hank Williams Jr.),"Cocaine Blues", and "Man in Black". He also recorded several humorous songs, such as "One Piece at a Time", "The One on the Right Is on the Left", "Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog" and "A Boy Named Sue"; rock-and-roll numbers such as "Get Rhythm"; and various railroad songs, such as "Rock Island Line" and "Orange Blossom Special".
He sold over 50 million albums in his nearly 50 year career and came to occupy a "commanding position in music history." (read more . . . )
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