Students and lovers of today's Country music will appreciate this scholarly recognition of the pioneers responsible for introducing their music to the rest of the nation in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, "Hillbilly music," as it was then called, began to be commercially recorded and it was music to which the common folks beyond the southern mountains could relate. Biographies and musical styles of mor


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