The Nashville Sound

Jim Reeves:
The Nashville Sound is a blend of pop and country that developed in the 1950’s. A result of this blending was many crossover hits by the 50’s king of country pop, Jim Reeves (1924-1964.) Reeves possesed a smooth voice which was combined with mellow string orchestration and slick production techniques to make this [...]

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The Honky Tonk Music

Perhaps no other style of country music has had a greater influence on today’s artists than the style known as Honky Tonk. Honky Tonk music embodied the spirit of dancing and drinking, and loving and then losing the one you love. Its greatest practioners owe their singing style to Jimmie Rodgers and much of the [...]

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The Blue Grass Music

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
This pioneer invented the style of music we know today as bluegrass. During the late thirties and into the early 40’s Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys (from whom the style derived its name) experimented with instrumental techniques on the guitar, bass, fiddle and mandolin and created [...]

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