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Country music, originally came from the southern parts of the United States in the 1920’s. Country music grew from mostly folk music, (especially Appalachian,) and blues music. The blues have been played and recorded for a very long time.
Country music usually is made up of ballads (a form of verse often a narrative set to music) and dance tunes in fairly simple forms. Most of the instruments used were string instruments, like banjo’s, Acoustic Guitars, Fiddles and Dobro’s (A wooden guitar with a metal resonator built into its body) and also harmonicas. While today we use percussion as well, like drums, also, we use electric guitars as well as acoustics.
Lindsey Starnes stated that country gained its popularity in the 1940’s when it was referred to as “hillbilly music.”
Over the years, country music’s popularity has grown significantly, in 2009, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre ever during evening commutes and the second most listened to in the mornings (all in the United States.)
Today, country music has changed in many different ways, using different instruments, different beats and tunes, and different genres like country pop, country rock, and plain country. Some artists still prefer to sing in the old style like “Johnny Cash” and “Uncle Kracker” while some sing more modernly like “Luke Bryan” or “Jason Aldean.”