Style Influences
Folk like Music typically played with a banjo and fiddle
What is string band music?
A violin, also known as this in folk music and Country Western
What is the fiddle?
This early Country musician's signature vocal technique was yodeling
Who is Jimmie Rodgers?
During the Great Depression, record sales fell and Americans listened to music on this device instead
What is the radio?
This artist sang songs like "Man in Black," Ring of Fire," and "Walk the Line."
Who is Johnny Cash?
Traditional Irish fiddle tunes, also known as this type of music
What is Celtic music?
What is the harmonica?
Who are the Carter Family?
What is the Grand Ole Opry?
She was born into a country music family and performed as a comic, singer, and instrumentalist her whole life.
Who is June Carter Cash
Traditional English love songs, also known as these
What are ballads?
This string instrument has roots in African and Caribbean traditions with the akonting.
What is a banjo?
He was known as a "song catcher" and would travel even 90 miles if he heard someone had an old song that was never recorded
Who is A.P. Carter?
Who are Joe and Odell Thompson?
This string band included instruments of fiddle, banjo, jug, and bones and was led by Rhiannon Giddens.
Who are the Carolina Chocolate Drops?
Western music sung by Gene Autry, Patsy Montana, and others was known as this
What are cowboy songs?
"The Carter Scratch" was a technique of playing both melody and rhythm on this instrument
What is the guitar?
This is the process of collecting and keeping songs to keep the country tradition alive?
What is song catching?
This was a radio program broadcast in Chicago, Illinois starting in 1924 and continuing to 1968.
What is the National Barn Dace?
He was the "first super star" of Country music, was a singer and fiddle player, and originally planned for a baseball career with the New York Yankees
Who is Roy Acuff
Jimmie Rodgers incorporated this American musical style into the early Country Western music that he played
What is the Blues?
This rhythmic instrument is an auxillary instrument of a string band.
What are the bones?
The "Carter scratch" was a guitar playing technique developed by Maybelle Carter and blues musician...
Who is Leslie Riddle?
This singing cowboy was also a rodeo performer, famed actor, and business tycoon; we recognize his voice in his recordings of "Frosty the Snowman" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer"
Who is Gene Autry?
The very first Black performer on the Grand Ole Opry, he played the harmonica.
Who is DeFord Bailey?