#Country Music History
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Discussing why/how/when it became “cool” to hate Taylor -> country music history lesson from banjo enthusiast about how every decade someone has to come along and “ruin” country music again. For example, in the 40s, Bob Wills ruined country music by daring to add drums. And in the 2000’s, Taylor Swift dared to be a teenage girl.
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Country Music History:
Linda Martell 👑🤠
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Linda Martell made such a huge impact in such a short amount of time! #cultureunfiltered #lindamartell #cowboycarter #beyonce
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‘Genres are a funny little concept, aren’t they?’
That voice on Beyoncé’s ‘COWBOY CARTER’? It belongs to the iconic Linda Martell, who was one of the first Black artists to push past racist barriers into country music
#beyoncé #cowboycarter #countrymusic #blackartists
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Today's ⋆˚*･Supremely Awkward Dimly Lit Family Photo･*˚⋆ is with the first commercial recordings of women in country music. Both records are turning 100 years old this year.
The disc with the orange flag label is of Samantha Bumgarner (1878-1960) and Eva Davis. With fiddle and banjo, these women were one of the first string bands to ever record country.
The first country music recording session at all was with Eck Robertson and Henry Gilliland on June 30, 1922. The first record from that session had a limited release September 1, 1922 and was brought into full circulation in April 1923. Only one year later, on April 22, 1924, Bumgarner and Davis recorded; the first song they played in the studio was Cindy in the Meadows, which I'm holding in my hand. Their records were released later in 1924.
On my right is the second female singer to record country music. Teenaged Roba Stanley (1908-1986) recorded mere months after Bumgarner and Davis in the summer of 1924. I am holding her first record release.
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One of the saddest and most heartwarming stories I’ve ever read.
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18-year-old Willie Nelson when he was in the Air Force 1950-51. He was ultimately discharged due to back problems
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Gonna open a psychobilly venue called Tootsie's Morbid Lounge.
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Look, country music belongs to black people. Whites appropriated the banjo, the blues, and everything that predicated modern country music. Here's an article that explains it really well:
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Linda Martell - "Color Him Father" (1970)
**Beyoncé's latest album 'Cowboy Carter' spotlights Linda Martell, a pioneer and trailblazer who paved the way for Black country music artists, as she was the first commercially successful Black female artist in the genre.
#linda martell#color him father#1970#color me country#the linda martell show#beyoncé#beyonce#cowboy carter#renaissance act ii#music#country music#black music#black artists#black history#black women#african american#paying homage#icon#video#sbrown82
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Did you know that, when Latin American countries were becoming independent from Spain, 5 of their anthems were composed by Catalans?
In Argentina 🇦🇷, the government that resulted from the 1810 May Revolution chose an anthem composed by Blai Parera i Moret.
In Chile 🇨🇱, the anthem chosen in 1828 was composed by Ramon Carnicer i Batlle.
Mexico's 🇲🇽 1854 contest to choose a national anthem was won by Jaume Nunó i Roca.
When Panama 🇵🇦 became independent in 1904, they commissioned Albert Galimany i Pujol to compose their national anthem.
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 adopted its current national anthem in 1952, choosing a song composed in 1867 by Fèlix Astol i Artés.
#música#arts#història#music#national anthems#anthems#argentina#chile#mexico#panama#puerto rico#catalonia#catalunya#music history#art history#other countries
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Dolly Parton performing at WBAP's Country Gold anniversary event in Texas, 1974 🦋
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Happy 100th birthday to the first country music record!
Victor 18956 Arkansaw Traveler / Sallie Gooden is often considered the first authentic commercial record of what we’d now call country music. It was given a limited release on September 1, 1922 (though it took until April 1923 for the disc to be in wide circulation).
Fiddlers Henry Gilliland (1845-1924) and Alexander Campbell “Eck” Robertson (1887-1975) recorded their first session on June 30, 1922 in New York after traveling from the Confederate Veterans Reunion in Richmond, VA. On July 1, Robertson recorded more material. One side of their first release contains a duet, while the side you are hearing is Eck Robertson playing solo on Sallie Gooden.
Sallie Gooden is a longstanding fiddle tune standard which dates from before the United States Civil War. Robertson’s rendition is not just a good performance for the first country music record, it’s a fantastic, hair-raising performance of all time.
Eck Robertson, born in Arkansas and raised on a farm in the Texas panhandle, came from a family of fiddlers. He worked tuning pianos for the Total-Line Music Company while he and his wife Nettie performed in vaudeville theatres and fiddle contests in the Southwestern states. He was thirty-four at the time of this recording.
I’ve previously uploaded audio of a Gilliland and Robertson duet, which you can check out here.
#thatbanjobusiness#Collectors Corner#Country Music History#that banjo business#music#country music#video#General Banjo Business
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Johnny Cash w/ Martin F-9 Archtop Guitar | c.1950's/1960's
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Like, it's fine to relate songs you like to fiction you like. That's good and fun! Hozier's music is often political commentary, but it's also about love and emotion and has inspirations in other genres of music and fiction (esp Unreal Unearth, which is explicitly based on Dante's Inferno).
The trouble comes not with linking, you know, a love song to your favorite blorbo, it's when you reduce Hozier the person into a magical sad fairy man stereotype Too Good for This World in a way that both reduces the influence of black music and artists on his work AND fetishizes Irishness as a whole as if Ireland is a fantasy kingdom of the past and not a real place populated by real people.
#hozier#if you're an american with irish or otherwise celtic ancestry (like i am)#it's understandable to feel the ache of disconnection and the urge to romanticize the place our ancestors came from#but the way to express that is to educate yourself about your family's history and the modern countries#not turn them into a fantasyland in your mind and dehumanize current citizens of those places#hozier's music is magical the same way any good art is magical#not because he's an otherworldly fairy man separate from modern politics or his varied (and often black) artistic influences#bog post
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Dolly Parton
#classic#retro#vintage#vintage woman#beautiful#actress#beauty#feminine beauty#timeless beauty#classic beauty#Dolly Parton#blonde bombshell#country singer#1970s aesthetic#1970s fashion#1970s#1970s music#1970s vintage#1970s history#1980s#1980s aesthetic#1980s music#1980s nostalgia#1980s vintage#classic icon#icon
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Dolly Parton in 1976 😍
She’s so gorgeous, Jolene has nothing on her.
#dolly parton#1976#celebrities#iconic#pop culture#hollywood#fashion#music#country#1970s#1970s music#1970s vintage#1970s history#1970s style#1970s fashion#1970s aesthetic#70s#mid 70s#70s music#70s movies#70s aesthetic#country music#southern belle#singer
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