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History of Country Music Exam 3 Material

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Lefty Frizzell
Hank William's main rival
"honkey tonk" music
influenced Merle Haggard
If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
Honkey Tonk Music Era
starts with Ernest Tubb in 1941- pre-rock
Chet Atkins- record executive/great guitar player
The Carlisles- "Jumpin" Bill Carlisle and Cliff Carlisle
Hank Snow
Grand Ole Opry- 1950
I've Been Everywhere- later recorded by Johnny Cash
Influenced by Vernon Dalhart and Jimmie Rodgers
Webb Pierce
heavily influenced by Jimmie Rodgers
very successful in the 1950s- second to Hank Williams
Hank Thompson
The Wild Side of Life- 1952
Kitty Wells
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels: answer song to Hank Thompson's "The Wild Side of Life"
Queen of Country Music
Top female vocalist for 13 years- 1952-1965
Bill Monroe
"father" of bluegrass
Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys
Earl Scruggs joined Bill Monroe's band and together they created bluegrass music- Scruggs's banjo playing!
Earl Scruggs
grew up in NC playing banjo
"Scruggs style bajo"- 3-fingered style of banjo playing (revolutionary)
Flatt and Scruggs
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
soon eclipsed Bill Monroe's band in popularity
Louise Scruggs- first female manager and booking agent in Nashville
Recorded theme song for the Beverly Hillbillies
Martha White Flour
sponsor of Flatt and Scruggs- got them on the Opry
"Martha White"
Louisa Scruggs
Earl Scruggs's wife
no-nonsense, great at selling records
made Flatt and Scruggs record things that would sell records- Bob Dylan songs!
Jimmy Martin
"Mick Jagger" of bluegrass
raised in Sneedville, TN
idolized Jimmie Rodgers and Roy Acuff
"King of Bluegrass" and "Mr. Good and Country"
never made it onto the Opry
Osbourne Brothers
Sunny and Bobby Osbourne
very innovative- not traditional bluegrass
"Rockytop Tennessee"
New Grass Revival
progressive bluegrass band
many people who played in Bill Monroe's band went on to become progressive bluegrass acts
The Seldom Scene
progressive bluegrass band
combination of bluegrass and country music
based in DC
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