US Congress has formally recognized Bristol, Tennessee as the "Birthplace of Country Western Music", based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927.
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24 Facts About Country Western
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Country Western musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had been played at Carnegie Hall, when Johnny Barfield recorded "Boogie Woogie".
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Moon Mullican, for example, played Country Western swing but recorded songs that can be called rockabilly.
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At its height, Country Western swing rivaled the popularity of big band swing music.
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Country Western musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had been played at Carnegie Hall, when Johnny Barfield recorded "Boogie Woogie".
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Country Western charted 48 singles during the decade; 31 reached the top ten and 26 reached the top four.
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Country Western music gained national television exposure through Ozark Jubilee on ABC-TV and radio from 1955 to 1960 from Springfield, Missouri.
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West of the Mississippi river, many of these Western genres continue to flourish, including the Red Dirt of Oklahoma, New Mexico music of New Mexico, and both Texas country music and Tejano music of Texas.
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Country Western pop or soft pop, with roots in the countrypolitan sound, folk music, and soft rock, is a subgenre that first emerged in the 1970s.
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Country Western rock is a genre that started in the 1960s but became prominent in the 1970s.
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Country Western influences combined with Punk rock and alternative rock to forge the "cowpunk" scene in Southern California during the 1980s, which included bands such as the Long Ryders, Lone Justice and the Beat Farmers, as well as the established punk group X, whose music had begun to include country and rockabilly influences.
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Country Western made history by becoming the seventh woman to win Entertainer of the Year at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the first woman in history to win the award twice, as well as twice consecutively.
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Country Western instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonica, create the distinctive sound of country music in Australia and accompany songs with strong storyline and memorable chorus.
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Country Western music has been a particularly popular form of musical expression among Indigenous Australians.
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Country Western music is popular in the United Kingdom, although somewhat less so than in other English-speaking countries.
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Niche country subgenre popular in the West Country is Scrumpy and Western, which consists mostly of novelty songs and comedy music recorded there.
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In Ireland, Country Western and Irish is a music genre that combines traditional Irish folk music with US country music.
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Country Western was the first country musician to perform in the Soviet Union; he toured in Australia and the Middle East.
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Country Western was deemed the "International Ambassador of Country Music" for his contributions to the globalization of country music.
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In Poland an international country music festival, known as Piknik Country Western, has been organised in Mragowo in Masuria since 1983.
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Great American Country Western was launched in 1995, as a country music-oriented channel that would later add lifestyle programming pertaining to the American Heartland and South.
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