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radio, TV, and movie performer
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"Leadbelly"
Good Night Irene
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The Weavers
Sung Leadbelly’s Good Night Irene
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English, Irish, Scottish
genre came from Bluegrass Boys
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| William Smith (Bill) Monroe |
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country and western singer sung about coal mining
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| Developed 3 Finger Picking Style |
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Developed the Flatt picking style
did theme song for Beverly Hillbillies
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Texas Trubador
Walking the floor over you
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originally called hillbilly music
features fiddle string bass and steel guitar
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| William Orville ‘Lefty’ Frizzell |
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Leading Exponent to honky tonk music
relaxed singing voice
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Longest running radio show
played african-american music
Host was Sunny Sunshine Payne
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Boogie Woogie Blues
played the piano
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| Rilley B. King ;B.B. King; |
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guitar named lucille
sang the thrill is gone
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Howling Wolf
6;6′ 300 lbs
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mesntrol of the applachian
created the first folk festival
to raise money and promote folk music
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| created the first catalog of music at library of congress |
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musicologist goes to the source for study and recording purposes
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| study of people making music in a cultural context |
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Fisk University in Nashville, TN
sang spirituals to raise money for college
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| American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music performed by white people in black face |
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| Recorded the first blues song |
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| most popular blues singer in 1920’s and 30’s |
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| Created the Bristol Sessions |
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| pejoritive term for one who lives in remote areas |
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| recorded the first song to be broadcasted on radio and to be played on a phonograph |
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Group that had a huge impact on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960’s and left a great catalog of country music
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| James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers |
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first country music superstar
called the blue yodler
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| originated in the Mississippi delta on the Yazoo River includes steel guitar and harmonica |
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Sun House
influence delta blues
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| weekly saturday night country music radio show |
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| type of bar that plays country music |
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| American Farmer, banjo player, singer, song writer, and comedian, played at Grand Ole Opry at 56 |
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| Early country music star and first african american to perform at Grand Ole Opry was a harmonica player |
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lost money in great depression
merged jazz and the blues with christian hymns
original name Thomas Dorsey
Father of Black Gospel
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| creater of the bakersfield sound from california |
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