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Brief History of Country Music

By Dallas Moore

These Pages will try to show the origins of Country Music as it progressed to what it was in the '50s and '60s.The music was developed in the deep south by the third and fourth generation after the civil war. They were trying to make it in an economy that was deeply depressed. jobs were hard to find and for most black men The only work they had was in the fields. With the racial inequeties of the time they had an espescially hard time making a living. The black people in the fields sang along with their work and some fine music came out of those fields. People like Leadbelly and Blind Lemon Jefferson and others sang what came to be called the Delta Blues. Around that same time Jimmy Rodgers was singing folk music from his experiences on the railroad. The Carter family was singing Mountain Music in the hills of Tennesee and Virginia. Hank Williams music was influenced by the Delta Blues sung by Leadbelly and others, he was also influenced by the Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers. If you have ever heard Leadbelly, Jimmy Rodgers, and the Carter family you would be able to notice the influence they had on later generations of musicians.

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