COUNTRY MUSIC-AN INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone,I am Nikkhil Verma.I hope many of you know me but in case if I am stranger to you so here I am extending my hands of friendship towards you.First of all just want to thank my brother Pulkit who introduced me to this world of blogging and gave me an honor to post the best of my knowledge about different things here.I firmly believe that if you have knowledge about something you should always share that with your friends.As they say in hindi that "vidhya dhan sarva pradhanam"...so its always share a part of your knowledge with the one you know and even with them whom you dont know..

This is my first post to any blog and I am trying to acknowledge you all with the best of my knowledge about the most beautiful genre of music and that is "COUNTRY MUSIC"

COUNTRY MUSIC:It is said that the birthplace of country music or in simple words the place from where country music was originated is Bristol,Tennessee in 1927.There was an engineer called Ralph Peer who set up a recording studio there as a work for his engineering and later to check how does it works,he asked Jimmie rodgers and carter family to sing some songs ,who later on became the first stars of country music.They were the people who worked in rural areas.There was a mill worker,Fiddlin John Carson who was asked by Peer to sing in his studios.He sang some old familiar tunes.The early country music was recorded by Victor records.later on Peer and Victor records started to find some new artist who can sing in the same style and beingin countryside they named this tyle as "COUNTRY".

At the time of Great Depression rural people were forced to move towards urban areas ,they carried away the country songs and country music with them to urban areas,there also it was new to the urban people and when urban people heard the country people singing some typical tones they also named it "country songs"

"BARN DANCE"was a radio programme started in 1920's that gave popularity to the country music and people started loving this genre of music.Although that time some genres that are so popular these days were not into existense but people were more into classical music of the era.From 1940-1950 Atlanta Radio station gave popularity to country music.

The country music was gaining popularity but it was the time when there was a need of performing country singer,so there it got HANK WILLIAMS,who brought honky-tonk ethos in the mainstream of country music and became the popular star,,during 1960,CHET ATKINS
was on fire as a great country singer followed by ALAN JACKSON in 1980 and then came the neverending flood of country artists who put the country music on the zenith of popularity.
Few country artist who make the world of country music so popular are::

1. Johnny Cash
2. Hank Williams
3. Merle Haggard
4. Patsy Cline
5. Jimmie Rodgers
6. Bill Monroe
7. Carter Family
8. Willie Nelson
9. Waylon Jennings
10. George Jones
11. Conway Twitty
12. Bob Wills
13. Tammy Wynette
14. Loretta Lynn
15. Buck Owens
16. Kitty Wells
17. Dolly Parton
18. Lefty Frizzell
19. Ray Price
20. Eddy Arnold
21. Ernest Tubb
22. Webb Pierce
23. Ronnie Milsap
24. Jim Reeves
25. Charley Pride
26. The Stanley Brothers
27. George Strait
28. Flatt & Scruggs
29. Marty Robbins
30. Garth Brooks
31. Elvis Presley
32. Hank Snow
33. Don Gibson
34. Hank Williams Jr.
35. Roger Miller
36. Johnny Horton
37. Charlie Rich
38. Red Foley
39. Louvin Brothers
40. Statler Brothers
41. Roy Acuff
42. Gene Autry
43. Hank Thompson
44. Bobby Bare
45. Chet Atkins
46. George Morgan
47. Porter Wagoner
48. Tennessee Ernie Ford
49. Vern Gosdin
50. Sonny James
51. Reba McEntire
52. Tom T. Hall
53. Roy Rogers
54. Tanya Tucker
55. Bill Anderson
56. The Oak Ridge Boys
57. Faron Young
58. Earl Thomas Conley
59. Alabama
60. Barbara Mandrell
61. Gene Watson
62. Crystal Gayle
63. Kenny Rogers
64. Shania Twain
65. Glen Campbell
66. Rodney Crowell
67. Keith Whitley
68. Dwight Yoakam
69. Marty Stuart
70. Patsy Montana
71. Don Williams
72. Steve Wariner
73. The Judds
74. Jean Shepard
75. Roy Clark
76. Emmylou Harris
77. Mel Tillis
78. John Conlee
79. Ricky Skaggs
80. Dottie West
81. T.G. Sheppard
82. Johnny Paycheck
83. Bellamy Brothers
84. Randy Travis
85. Lynn Anderson
86. Carl Smith
87. Dave Dudley
88. John Denver
89. Vince Gill
90. Patty Loveless
91. Alan Jackson
92. Clint Black
93. The Dixie Chicks
94. Brooks & Dunn
95. Tim McGraw
96. Toby Keith
97. Anne Murray
98. Diamond Rio
99. Mark Chesnutt
100. Alison Krauss + Union Station

These artists have contributed their best in making country music so popular,in my next posts i will bring in the information about some of the best country singers..

till then keep smiling. :)