One hundred five years ago today, the Grand Ole Opry star who could make listeners laugh and cry with his songs was born.
Today’s country music genre had its beginnings in the 1920s with the popularization of two types of music: rural white bluegrass or “hillbilly” music and “western” or “cowboy” music. The two styles ...
Dating all the way back to the 1920s, country music has undergone numerous changes over the decades. Once known for embracing Western music with its use of banjos, fiddles, and harmonicas, country ...