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From the backwoods to the highrises, Country Music is an iconic American music style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music. Country music often consists of mostly string instruments such as banjoes, electric and acoustic guitars, fiddles such as violins, and harmonicas.The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term hillbilly music. The term country music is used today to describe many styles and subgenres, but a singing cowboy is about how most of still see that term! Independent country musicians are sweeping the country and we here at Our City Radio have a special place for them to hang their hats, the bronco bucking, steer roping, bull ridin-ist country station on the internet!
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Although musicians had been recording fiddle tunes (known as Old Time Music at that time) in the southern Appalachians for several years, country music truly found its footing in the early 1920s. The first commercial recording of “country music” was “Sallie Gooden” by fiddlist A.C. (Eck) Robertson in 1922 for Victor Records. In 1923,Fiddlin’ John Carson recorded “Little Log Cabin in the Lane” for Okeh Records. Columbia Records followed suit in 1924 with a series of releases, and Vernon Dalhart was the first country singer to have a nationwide hit in May of 1924 with “Wreck of the Old ’97.” In 1925, The Skillet Lickers were formed, and “The Dying Cowboy” by Carl T.Sprague was the top country record.
The most significant date in the creation of country music was August 1, 1927, when, in Bristol, Tennessee, record executive Ralph Peer signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to Victor Records. These two recording acts, Rodgers with his unique singing style and the Carters with their extensive recordings of old-time music, built the foundation for the genre.
