Description
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated with blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, old-time, and American folk music forms including Appalachian, Cajun, Creole, Hawaiian, and the cowboy Western music styles of New Mexico, Red Dirt, Tejano, and Texas country. Its popularized roots originate in the Southern and Southwestern United States of the early 1920s. Country music often consists of ballads and honky-tonk dance tunes with generally simple form, folk lyrics, and harmonies often accompanied by string instruments such as electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), banjos, and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.The term country music gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to hillbilly music, with "country music" being used today to describe many styles and subgenres. It came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. In 2009, in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute. The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working class Americans and blue-collar American life. It has historical roots in the indigenous music of North America, Celtic music, early music of the British Isles, jota, Irish traditional music, singing cowboys, corrido, ranchera, norteño, French folk music, African-American music, and other traditional folk music traditions.
Release Info
Artist: Country Westerns
Label: Fat Possum Records
Format: LP, Album
Country: US
Label: Fat Possum Records
Released: 2020-05-01
Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style:
Tracklist
A1 At Any Time
A2 It’s Not Easy
A3 Guest Checks
A4 I’m Not Ready
A5 Gentle Soul
A6 It’s On Me
B1 Times To Tunnels
B2 TV Light
B3 Close To Me
B4 Slow Nights
B5 Two Characters