From Banjos to Big Time-- Part 1: Country Music's Rise

From the June 7, 2015, Parade Magazine.

EARLY 1920S:  Musicians in the Appalachian Mountains had been playing "country" for decades.  It gained more exposure as radio shows--including the GRAND OLE OPRY out of Nashville in 1925-- began broadcasting.

1927:  The CARTER FAMILY and JIMMIE RODGERS are "discovered" and recorded in a Bristol, Tennessee studio.

1930s:  GENE AUTRY and other singing movie cowboys put the western into "country western" music.

1945:  EARL SCRUGGS joins Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in stage at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium (Grand Ole Opry).   Bluegrass gets a wider audience.

1954:  ELVIS PRESLEY spawns a rock and roll sound that first threatens and later informs country music.

Like the Bartender at Bob's Country Bunker Said on the "Blues Brothers,"  "We've Got Both Kinds of Music, Country and Western."  --RoadDog

Roothog Radio: Americana and Bluegrass-- Part 2

Like Roothog Radio says: "We play Honky Tonk, Bluegrass and Real Country Music. In that order." //// Continuing with the music listening to this morning. //// THE MOUNTAIN'S GONNA SING-- Steep Canyon Rangers // DOESN'T MEAN NOTHIN'-- Infamous Stringdusters // O DEATH-- Ralph Stanley (From movie "O, Brother Where Art Thou"-- // STEP IN THE CLUB-- Gangstagrass (A very unique combination of gangsta rap, with all its bad language and bluegrass. Who'd have EVER figured?) // TWO BOYS ON A DIRT ROAD-- Grascalls //// CONTINENTAL DRIFTER-- Old Tire Swingers // THE WEIGHT-- Dala and the Good Lovelis and Oh Susanna // COUNTRY GIRLS-- Kentucky Parlor Pickers // RIDE-- Dehlia Low // MESSED UP JUST RIGHT-- Keller Williams & the Travelin' McCourys //// NAPOLEON COMPLEX-- Jonas Friddle & the Majority // HARD WAKIN' UP-- Hillbenders // RAGMAN'S ROLL-- Moot Davis // TRYING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME-- The O's // RAVISHING RUBY-- Tom T. Hall //// LONE STAR-- Floyd Tolston // ALABAM-- Cowboy Copas // YOU CAN HAVE THE CROWN-- Sturgill Simpson // THE DEVIL AIN'T LAZY-- Foley Lafarge //// Ya Gotta Love a Station With a Name Like Roothog. Good Stuff, Maynard --RoadDog

Roothog Radio: Americana and Bluegrass-- Part 1

From the Roothog Radio site. //// Here is another internet radio site I have been listening to of recent. This one is out of Dallas, Texas, but evidently there is no live deejay. But they sure do play a lot of music that I am unfamiliar with. //// Here is a list of what I have been listening to this morning: BALES OF COCAINE-- Reverend Horton Heat // PROUD MARY-- CCR // CRY CRY CRY-- Johnny Cash // HONEY (OPEN THE DOOR)-- Ricky Skaggs // ALBERTA SAYS HELLO-- Corb Lund Band //// PILLS I TOOK-- Hank Williams III // SAN ANTONIO ROSE-- Pine Valley Cosmonauts // WRECKED-- Turnpike Troubadours // I FEEL ALRIGHT-- Steve Earl // CRAZY-- Patsy Cline // CLAY PIGEONS-- Blaze Foley //// FISHING IN THE DARK-- Nitty Gritty Dirt Band // LIL' LIZA JANE-- Bob Wills // ANY DAY OF THE WEEK-- Mountain Sprout // SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT COMING-- Split Lip Rayfield //// Some I've Heard, But A Whole Lot of Music I've Never Heard Before. I Like That. --RoadDog