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US Country Label 1960 Good 'n Country — Decca 1962 Country Music Time — 1963 This World Is Not My Home — 1964 Widow Maker — 1965 Sunny Side of the Mountain — 1966 Good 'n Country Music — 1967 Big and Country Instrumentals — 1968 Tennessee: 42 1969 Free Born Man — 1970 Singing All Day — 1972 I'd Like to Be Sixteen Again ...
"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 ...
The song was written during the Urban Cowboy fad [7] while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on Christopher Street called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of gay iconography." He wrote the song with ...
"Mountain Music" † Randy Owen Mountain Music: 1982 [18] "Music Moves Me" Wild Country: 1976 "My Girl" Ronald White Smokey Robinson: Dancin' on the Boulevard: 1997 [8] "My Home's in Alabama" † Randy Owen Teddy Gentry The Alabama Band #3 My Home's in Alabama: 1979 1980 [16] "My Love Belongs to You" Ronnie Rogers: In Pictures: 1995 [29] "My ...
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 ...
Eventually, he enrolled at the University of Virginia in 1949 where his love for country music expanded to folk music through fellow students, Paul Clayton and Dave Sadler. While still in college, Clifton, Clayton, and Sadler formed the Dixie Mountain Boys together and began playing professionally at small radio stations in central Virginia.
Claude King (February 5, 1923 – March 7, 2013) was an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for his 1962 million-selling hit, "Wolverton Mountain". [ 2 ] Biography
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the "King of Country Music", Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.