Country music is it's own genre of music. Originally country music was known as "Hillbilly Music." Country music is it's own genre of music, it has it's own separate awards show and real Country artists do not consider themselves to be part of more than one genre. If you're country, you're country.
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The Guitar is the most popular and widely used instrument in country music!
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where did it come from? |
Country music, also known as country western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.
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If you said Nashville, you'd be wrong. Although Nashville is said to be the birth place... The right answer is Bristol, Tennessee. Bristol is on the Tennessee and Virginia border, where Appalachian mountain folk music has been popular for generations.
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