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Country Music was conceived in the southern USA, but Williams was the first Australian to record country music in Australia, three years after the New Zealander Tex Morton made his first recording in Australia. Williams recorded his songs about life and times in the Australian bush and it was with Williams that the bush ballad was first born.
Lost Highway is a compilation album by country artist ... "Beer for My Horses" (Scotty Emerick ... "Ain't Goin' Down on Brokeback Mountain" (Ben Hayslip ...
Michael Martin Murphey (born March 14, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the founding artists of progressive country. [3] A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959.
John Rich (born January 7, 1974) is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist.
"Past the Point of Rescue" has been recorded by several other artists, most notably the Dixie Chicks on their 1992 album Little Ol' Cowgirl.; Norwegian country rock group Hellbillies has made a locally successful cover version featuring Norwegian lyrics about a reindeer hunter who gets lost in the mountain.
"Mountain Music" — a song melding the Southern rock and bluegrass genres — has variously been described by country music writers as "a modern country classic" [3] and a song that "practically defined what country groups have strived to accomplish." [4] According to Randy Owen's book Born Country, "Mountain Music" took him three years to ...
A heartbreaking video shows that people aren't the only ones being forced to flee their homes as more than 10 fires burn in California. The Easy Fire outside Simi Valley started on Oct. 30 and has ...
The title character of "Old Rivers" is an elderly farmer, a childhood friend of the song's main protagonist. The protagonist, whose family is very poor, recalls how Old Rivers used a mule-drawn plow to cultivate fields in the hot sun. The mule's name was "Midnight," and together man and mule would plow straight, deep rows for the crops, which ...