1. The cowboy films of the 1930s and ‘40s contributed greatly to the evolution of country music.
2. Music is important for regulating our emotional state
3. country music has been linked to depression and even suicide.
4. country music has focused on the same themes that have attracted American writers and artists for nearly three centuries: the road, loneliness, the American West, the spiritual quest, nature, and the importance of home.
5. There is a historical importance of country music
6. people started to become very different which promoted different music
7. It relied on the radio and mass marketing techniques.
8. Country music, also called country and western, style of 20th-century American popular music that originated among whites in rural areas of the South and West.
9. Ultimately, country music’s roots lie in the ballads, folk songs, and popular songs of the English, Scots, and Irish settlers of the Appalachians and other parts of the South.
10. Bluegrass is generally considered a sub-genre of country music that developed in the second half of the 20th century.
11. bluegrass as a musical form did not develop directly out of the generation of recorded commercial country music that preceded it.
12. Bristol, Tennessee is the actual birthplace for country music
13. The Carter Family formed the core of several generations of popular country musicians
14. Jimmie Rodgers, the "Father of Country Music," didn't think he was the father of anything but three daughters.
15. Henry Ford, the auto maker, put more money into promoting country music in the 1920s than anyone else.
16. The first commercial country record was made by Eck Robertson in 1922 on the Victor Records label.
