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Country music started around the 1920s in the southern United States in Atlanta, Georgia.

COUNTRY

TRAITS

• Country music uses a variety of instruments such as vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, drums and banjo.
• The themes in country music are usually about love, sex, drinkin, bars, and life experiences
• Country was originally called "hillbilly" music. Changed in 1940
• In the 1920s it was more rowdy and bawdy. Cleaned it up in 1930s
• Country music hall of fame is the largest music museum in the world.

JOHNNY CASH

HANK WILLIAMS

MERLE HAGGARD

PATSY CLINE

JIMMIE RODGERS

BILL MONROE

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