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to be a small curly-haired white mouse sniffing a flower…

a lot of people have been asking me to make a country music recommendation type thing so  here’s the first post in a series of posts i’ll be doing going in depth on Country Music and giving some recommendations! (i’m making it a series type thing because i’m dumb and don’t wanna kill peoples dashboards.) i mean what better place to start than the history of the genre. Country music evolved from folk songs brought to Appalachia by European immigrants. while a lot of older songs and artists are lost with time some artists that carried the songs on are: Doc Watson. The Carter Family (A.P. Carter would travel throughout Appalachia gathering traditional folk songs and bringing them home to record them and document them) the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band covers a lot of older songs too from there Country music kind of evolved with the time, a lot of people consider people like Jimmie Rodger and Roy Acuff the fathers of modern country. Hank Williams Sr. has been on record saying “without Roy Acuff there would be no Hank Williams” some of the following artists that grew with the sound were: Roy Acuff. Hank Williams. (GOD) Ernest Tubb. Kitty Wells (women are often overlooked in the importance of country but Kitty Wells ushered in an era of independent and talented women musicians who werent afraid to mix it up with the male dominated industry). Webb Pierce. Patsy Cline. Johnny Cash. (Cash tends to transcend the genre in terms of impact but his music is without a doubt country to the bone) Hank Snow. Ray Price. Willie Nelson. (who is honestly one of the most important musicians of all time) Jim Reeves. George Jones. Buck Owens. Lefty Frizzell. Waylon Jennings. Porter Wagoner. Faron Young. Merle Haggard. Dolly Parton. (sahvfashvfashvf literally the queen of country music and deserves every ounce of praise in the world) Skeeter Davis. Hank Thompson. links might come at a separate time, i know this doesnt even begin to scratch the surface but i just kinda wanted to give a background and some recommendations to ease into the genre

this list is old but also listen to Ernest Tubb, Don Williams, Freddie Fender (the first and only real latin country star, inspired Selena HEAVILY doing the whole tex mex thing), Jerry Reed, Glen Campbell, Roger Miller, anything Gram Parsons did, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Keith Whitley, Johnny Paycheck, Townes Van Zandt seems to be very popular with this generation which is very cool considering how amazing of a songwriter he was but he was only carrying on a long tradition of beauty that can be found in the genre

(forgot Marty Robbins and Tammy Wynette in the original version of the post. I’m an idiot and a heretic)