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For the vast majority of the workin' man would be stuff like this. At least for the NEWER Country. Much of it is too whiny, commercial, slow and soft spoken for Mr. Average Joe. As a matter of fact, I've heard...."shut that s*** off" more than once around a large group of men sweating, whacking nails and the likes. This is what "WE" seem to listen to most! IMHO of course!
Outside of Native American music, the Blues was the first truly American form of music. Everything that followed was influenced by it in some way or another.
Folk music. In a time when many Americans could not read and write, particularly in the dust bowl era, folk songs were a way of passing history down from one generation to another. Country music was born from folk music.
Instrumental pieces from Anglo-British and Irish immigrants were the basis of folk songs and ballads that form what is now known as old time music, from which country music descended. It is commonly thought that British and Irish folk music influenced the development of old time music. British and Irish arrivals to the Southern U.S. included immigrants from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and England.
Often, when many people think or hear country music, they think of it as a creation of European-Americans. However, a great deal of style—and of course, the banjo, a major instrument in most early American folk songs—came from African Americans. One of the reasons country music was created by African-Americans, as well as European-Americans, is because blacks and whites in rural communities in the south often worked and played together, just as recollected by DeFord Bailey in the PBS documentary, DeFord Bailey: A Legend Lost. (Wiki)
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