https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hR-rOukbU

•One of the most popular contemporary female recording artists

•Known for singing about her ex-boyfriends

•Popular songs: Our Song, You Belong With Me, and Shake It Off

•Began in the 1950s

•Removed the banjo and fiddle

•Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Eddy Arnold were among the most popular artists during this time

•Dolly Parton switched to this style in 1977

Yeah heel toe do si do
Come on baby let's go boot scootin'
Oh cadillac blackjack baby meet me out back
We're gonna boogie
Oh, get down, turn around, go to town
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Country Music Capitol of the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIBTg7q9oNc

•Became one of country music's biggest artists in the 60s when he combined the sounds of rockabilly with those of honky tonk

•He soon became known as the "man in black" because he wore black clothes instead of cowboy clothes

•one of the best-selling music artists of all time

•Popular song: I Walk The Line

•It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late-1960s and early-1970s

•Added pedal steel guitars

•Artists: Bob Dylan and the Eagles

Do you love me do you want to be my friend
And if you do
Well then don't be afraid to take me by the hand
If you want to
I think this is how love goes
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without inbuilt electrical equipment to amplify the sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esAr0qGu2S4

•the most honored female country performer of all time

•she has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts

•Popular songs: I Will Always Love You and Jolene

•Began in the 1950s

• Influenced by the music of Appalachia

•Has mixed roots in Irish, Scottish and English

•Used the fiddle, banjo, and mandolin

•Sing about every day lives of normal people: railroad working and coal mining

You and me going fishing in the dark
Lying on our backs and counting the stars
Where the
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another word for "violin", esp. in country and folk music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7auzP9RhCY

•Singer and an actor

•one of the first male Country singers of his generation to crossover to Pop

•Famous movies: The Blind Side, Friday Night Lights, and recent movie The Shack

•Popular Song: Just To See You Smile

•Known as “Texas Music”

•Two-steppin’ music

•Used the pedal steel guitar so it could be heard in large dance halls

•Incorporated jazz elements

Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I
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to sing in a way that quickly changes from a very high voice to a normal voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxDkWBvxHEI

•He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame

•one of the best-selling music artists of all time

•Popular Songs: Coward Of The Country, Islands In The Stream, and Lucille

•Uses a piano

•first developed in the 1940s in working-class honky tonk bars near the oil fields of Texas

•bands usually included acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, fiddle, stand-up bass and drums

•songs were often about loneliness, love, heartbreak and pain

•Working-class people could relate to these songs

I'd do anything
That you wanted me to
And all is said and done
I'd never count the cost
It's worth all that's lost
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One of the most popular programs was a live country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee