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Perhaps the seated rickshaw passenger is too close to the back of the laboring driver, who, besides, is metaphorically a draught animal harnessed between shafts. [24] The cycle rickshaw was built in the 1880s and was first used with regularity starting in 1929 in Singapore. They were found in every south and east Asian country by 1950.
Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.First produced in the 1920s, country music is primarily focused on singing stories about working-class and blue-collar American life.
An answer song, response song or answer record is a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist. The concept became widespread in blues and R&B recorded music in the 1930s to the 1950s.
In that role, he recorded his own song, "Eli's Blue", a lament about a man who accidentally shot his dog. Ferguson wrote several other songs, including the million seller, "Carroll County Accident", [5] first recorded by Porter Wagoner. In 1969 it received a Country Music Award for the "Song of the Year".
The Bristol sessions of 1927 have been called the "Big Bang of Country Music", as some music historians have considered them the beginning of the modern country music genre. The popularity of such musicians as the Carter Family, who first recorded at the sessions, proved to industry executives that there was a market for "mountain" or ...
Outlaw country [2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.
Jerry Jeff Walker (born Ronald Clyde Crosby; March 16, 1942 – October 23, 2020) [3] was an American country and folk singer-songwriter. He was a leading figure in the progressive country and outlaw country music movement. He also wrote the 1968 song "Mr. Bojangles". [4]
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...