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100

3. 1950s ATTEMPT TO MAKE COUNTRY SOUND CLOSER TO MAINSTREAM POP USING PIANO, STRINGS & BACKING VOCALS INSTEAD OF OLD-TIME INSTRUMENTS

4. STYLES
200

5. FORM OF COUNTRY & WESTERN MUSIC THAT WAS BROADER IN SCOPE THAN ITS PARENT GENRE—BROUGHT JAZZ, HILLBILLY, BOOGIE, BLUES, BIG BAND SWING, RHUMBA, MARIACHI, JITTERBUG MUSIC & MORE TOGETHER—BOB WILLS WAS ITS “KING”

6. STYLES
300

7. INTRICATE, ACOUSTIC 2 & 3-PART HARMONIES, ENERGETIC DRIVE, UNBRIDLED EMOTION, “HIGH LONESOME” SOUND—BILL MONROE WAS ITS “FATHER”

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400

9. REBELLION AGAINST NASHVILLE SOUND, ITS NO-FRILLS ROOTS APPROACH WAS USED BY JOHNNY CASH, WAYLON JENNINGS & WILLIE NELSON, AMONG OTHERS

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500

11. MARRIED RHYTHM & BLUES WITH COUNTRY, A MEMPHIS SOUND POPULAR FROM 1953 TO THE END OF THE DECADE (JUST ASK ELVIS & JERRY LEE LEWIS, AMONG OTHERS)

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13. “FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” RECORDED “WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN
“FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” RECORDED “WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?” IN THE FIRST BRISTOL SESSIONS OF 1927

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200

15. IMPRISONED AND PARDONED TWICE, HIS FELLOW INMATES GAVE HUDIE LEDBETTER HIS NICKNAME BASED ON HIS LAST NAME AND HIS PHYSICAL TOUGHNESS

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300

17. COUNTRY’S 1970’s CROSSOVER TO POP; BLAND, WATERED-DOWN COUNTRY SUNG BY JOHN DENVER, ANNE MURRAY, OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN, KENNY ROGERS AND MORE

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400

19. YOU’D BE CRAZY NOT TO LISTEN TO THIS NASHVILLE SOUND SINGER WHO FELL TO PIECES

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500

21. HE ACTED NATURALLY AND CREATED THE BAKERSFIELD SOUND (AND HOSTED HEE HAW)

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100

23. BORN LEONARD SLYE, BECAME THE “KING OF THE COWBOYS” WHEN GENE AUTRY BREIFLY WALKED OUT OF HIS CONTRACT—HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU…

24. PEOPLE
200

25. “AMERICA’S FAVORITE COWBOY,” ONLY ENTERTAINER TO HAVE ALL 5 STARS ON HOLLYWOOD’S WALK OF FAME

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27. THE “KING OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” HE BACKED FRED ROSE IN THE FORMATION OF THE PUBLISHING HOUSE THAT HELPED ESTABLISH NASHVILLE AS MUSIC CITY, USA

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29. “THE FATHER OF COUNTRY MUSIC,” A/K/A “THE SINGIN’ BRAKEMAN,” A/K/A “THE BLUE YODELER” – THE FIRST COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR

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31. “THE GREAT HISTORICAL BUM,” HIS GUITAR OFTEN READ “THIS MACHINE KILLS FACISTS” – HIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, TOO

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33. COMBINED ROY ACUFF’S TRADITION WITH ERNEST TUBB’S HONKY-TONK STYLE; PLAGUED WITH DRUNKNESS & UNRELIABILITY

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35. THE FATHER OF THIS STYLE OF MUSIC, WHICH HAS HARD-DRIVING MANDOLIN SOLOS AND TENSE, HIGH-PITCHED VOCALS

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300

37. THE FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC FROM MACES SPRINGS, VA; RECORDED AT THE BRISTOL SESSIONS

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400

39. OUTLAW COUNTRY MAN-IN-BLACK WHO MARRIED INTO THE FIRST FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC

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500

41. DREAMED OF COPYING JIMMIE ROGERS, ROGERS’ WIDOW HELPED SET UP HIS FIRST RECORDING SESSION—“THE TEXAS TROUBADOR” IS WALKING THE FLOOR OVER YOU, HONKY-TONK STYLE

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