Experiencing Music

  Evolution of Country Music History of Country According to Wikipedia, " Country (Also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that takes its roots from genres such as blues and old-time music, and various types of American fold music including Appalachian, Cajun, and the cowboy Western music types of Red Dirt, New Mexico, Texas country, and Tejano. Its popularized roots originate in the Southern United States of the early 1920s." With the country genre, the consistency of using the instruments is played in fiddles, banjos, guitars, and string basses. Electric basses, pedal steel guitars, keyboards, and drums were later added to the genre. Below is the first country song that was recorded on June 14, 1923. The Little Log Cabin in the Lane Fiddlin-John Carson The 1940s-1950s By the 1940s, Western Swing also found a footing in the Country genre in Texas along with Oklahoma, and California. The additions of instruments such as drums, saxophones, pianos, steel-st