The Birth of Country Music

[Weatherman2020]

In 1927 Ralph Peer took a train to Bristol Tennessee with his recording equipment to record the unique sounds of Appalachian music. He paid $50 to sing into his box. The recordings became known as The Bristol Sessions. He took them back to New York and Country Music was famous.

Among the recordings is a family that lived near Bristol - the Carter family, probably the most famous family in Country Music to even this day.

 

[Auld Phart]

Grew up on Red.

Red Foley - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ I grew up on brown.......Sawyer Brown.



God bless you and each past and present member of the butt kicking band always!!!

Holly (one of their many fans)

P.S. They were my first concert when I was just four years old.....okay I only saw their first few minutes because I was too young to stand how loud the music was, but I still saw them.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

You should do a thread on the death of country music.

Todays "country" music is nothing more than bubblegum pop made with a few country twangs.
Thats not country.

 

[Harry Dresden]

 

[Weatherman2020]

You should do a thread on the death of country music.

Todays "country" music is nothing more than bubblegum pop made with a few country twangs.
Thats not country.

Same with rock n roll. To me it died with 1990. I suspect due to the swamp industry not letting talent be known, not lack of talent.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

You should do a thread on the death of country music.

Todays "country" music is nothing more than bubblegum pop made with a few country twangs.
Thats not country.

To me, nothing is dead as long as it is still played.

God bless you always!!!

Holly