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Seafphone Greetings, my fellow from low sovereign thinkers, thank you
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August eighteenth, twenty twenty five. This is episode eighteen seventy eight.
If I'm correct, the root of America's country music. Before proceed,
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to bonkers today. There's another mellowed brief statement I'm gonna
be talking about. And he came from the epoch Times
under the bright section. And it's called the Root of
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America's Country Music. And this was written by Rebecca Day
As there is here country music's earliest most popular recording
sounds different from then today's country hits. When fiddling John
Carson recorded the Little Old Log Cabin and the Latte
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in nineteen twenty three, he didn't realize the appellation tings
tune would become a timeless part of the genre's history.
His producer, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and businessman
of Ralph Pierre, ordered a mere five hundred copies of
the song to be distributed for sale. The record contained
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one other song played by the fiddler, the Old Hen
Cackled and the Roosters Gone Going to Crow, But it
was the Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane that
stole the show. When filling John Carson's copies quickly seld out,
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peer hired him for more recording sessions. What would become
the country music genre was introduced to a mass audience
in America for the first time. Carson's plane is distantly
the Appellachian, but the performers spent much of his time
in Georgia. His leanage traces back to Ireland, a country
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that heavily influenced country genres formation. America experienced the influx
of Irish immigrants from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century.
Populations like the Ulcer Scots were originally from Scotland but
lived in the Ulster area of Ireland for some time
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before immigrants in the United States. In the sixteen hundreds,
English and Native Irish populations sailed to America too. When
the Great Potato Famines struck Ireland in eighteen forty five,
more sought refuge across the Atlantic. These waves of movement
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resulted in the relocation of the scot Irish en mass,
which set the foundation for today's country music genre, the
most American tradition in music. While covering the history of
country music, the British Country Music Festival featured a quote
by Ray Benson, the frontman of Western swing band asleep
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at the wheel. Fiddling is an American tradition. I think
it's the most American tradition in music, and it goes
back to our founding. They all brought their fiddles over
because it was easier to carry a guitar than a fiddle,
than a piano and a brass band, Benson said. During
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America's colonial period, the fiddle was more than a musical instrument.
It was a cultural symbol. Through European immigrants could generally
only bring portable instruments with them due to the long
journey across the Atlantic, they none less bought immterial riches.
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They remember the blowthrough of hims and folk songs because
much of their history revolved around passing down music by ear.
Scottish music and composer Phil Cunningham notes the songs were
only bit of home they had to hold onto. The
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fiddle lent itself well to dance numbers, story songs about home,
love and faith, and ballads that were popular among the
early Scots. Irish in America. Families often settled into Appalachian
region and southern states like Tennessee old time music. While
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filming John Carson saw on his violin in Atlanta, a
folk song collector from England named Cecil Sharp and his
colleague Maud Carthpiists traveled the Appellation area in search of
America's music players. Eventually the pop The popularization of folk
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music led to the foundation of country western styling populars
in the nineteen forties, but in the early nineteen hundred's
folk music and its iteration were still called hillbilly music,
mountain music, or old time music. According to the British
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Country Music Festival site, the folk song Sharp have been
noting down in England had been assimilated from Scotland, which
bled into the northern English counties. Sharp then followed the
song's migration to the United States. During their travels, Sharp
and Carpolice gathered more than two hundred and fifty folk
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songs they eventually released through a series of song books.
Like country folk songs from the Southern Appellachians that they
were both were in all of the musical ability abilities
of everyday people. Sharpe once shared no two singers ever
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sing the same song identically the same way. He noted
the Appellation culture brimmed with good talkers, with elemental wisdom,
abundant knowledge, and initiative understanding. He felt this came from
a close connection to the land around them and the
courage to come face to face with reality and the
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introduction to English talk songs from the Southern appellations. Carpelis
excuse me writes that the everyday musicians of the culture
maintained a sense of continuity by strengthening instead of destroying
their traditional culture. These philosophical pillars will go on to
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influence the prelocating peril Sorry about that percolating country genre
throughout the twentieth century, with this artist focusing on values
of family and heritage and hard work, especially work involved
the land. Because of country songs are ripe with common
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sense lessons due to the genre's focus on the real world,
human feeling and imagination. In one of their releases, Sharp
and Carpela state that music and poetry is derived from
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the true scenery ideal expression of human feeling and imagination.
More than anything, it is the incentive human demand for
self expression that is the most important in folk songs.
One of America's most enduring folk songs, full of expression
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and feeling, Wayfaring Stranger has Scottish roots. Country singer Emmy
Lou Harris made the song a top ten country hit
in nineteen eighty, but long before it was a hit,
it's lyrics circulated throughout the Appalachian area in the mid
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eighteen hundreds. Is Haunting Melody dates back much further. The
song music is based on the seventeen to twenty four
Scottish ballad The Dowie Dens of Yarrow. The phrase Dowie
Dens Lucy translated translates to gloomy valleys, and their Yarrow
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Valley runs through the Scottish Borders area of the country,
which is home to several counties. The songs tail weaves
hardship and hope together with this universal message centering around
looking forward to better days ahead while traveling through hard times.
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The arrival arrival of country music when Peer Kick started
the country genre as we know it today the foundational
foundational acts like the Carter Family, Jimmy Rodgers and fiddling
John Carson in the nineteen twenties, It would be another
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twenty years before the musical stylings were renamed country and Western.
By the end of the nineteen forties, thanks to Billboards
use of the terms country and western music experience a
rise in popularity. By the nineteen fifties, Country music officially
arrived when artists like Johnny Cash paired country western appllition,
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bluegrass and folk styling with Southern gospel and blues. Phil
Pierre only initially released five hundred copy of Carson's The
Little Old Blog Cabin in the Lane Went. The record
went on to sell five hundred thousand copies. Filled In
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John Carson in nineteen twenty three. When he made that recording,
it opened the doors on what country music was to become,
said Lance Ledbetter, founder of the music preservation company dust
To Digital, to the Smithsonian Instament more Smithsonians Magazine. I
fall started there, my friends, I apologize. Today. Country music
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is a booming business in America. The musical genre reportedly
brought in just over one billion dollars in revenue in
nineteen twenty twenty two alone. The epic rise of country
music wouldn't have been possible without the musical contributions of
the determined immigrants of the British Isles who vowed to
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make America their home. The saying goes home is where
where the heart is, and for cultures like the Scots, Irish,
their hearts sought shelter and melody. When the art and
culture topics would you like to cover, please email me
ideas or feedback. That's for Becka Day's website features at
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Epic Times at NYC. Well, interesting article, pretty damn cool.
I would say, always remember the roots, my friend. Everyone
has a great gift and a story to tell and
beautiful history, regardless where you're at. Always have a token
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of appreciation because the even person myself been in the
music business, stage and entertainment industry for over thirty plus years,
and I learned to admire multiple genres of music, even
though they may be a fan of Always pay homage
to the ones who are poets and creators rather than
posers and fashion trends. Big difference, and that's from all genres.
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All you gotta do is pay attention, follow your heart,
see if it's gonna if it's gonna be to test
the time or a fad. You give the Scotts and
the Bridge credit. Without that, Country music wanna be a
little bit different, right of course, the country blues too,
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so that's how I look at it. Always appreciate, listen,
make your own judgment, and who kids what people think.
Never be dictated on what'style kind of music you like?
Be your own person. Well that will be it. I
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