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Country music is the music of the comman man. The definition of country music changes from place to place. If you search the internet for country music, you get results from the United States, the U.K., Spain, Chile, Africa, and all other areas of the world.
In the United States, country music has had it's beginnings in folk music (both from Europe and the United States), gospel, and blues. In fact many of the current stars of country music had their roots in one or more of the above genres.
The hills of Tennessee and Texas have produced many singers and song writers. Jimmy Rogers, Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, Elvis Presley, The Carter Family, Jimmy Dickens, Minnie Pearl, George Strait, and Jim Reeves have all made contributions to the modern country sound.
Somewhere along the way Western music and Western Swing from folks like Bob Wills, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Sons of the Pioneers, and Lefty Frizzell all joined together with Bluegrass from Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the blues from Memphis to impact the modern country sound.
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