In 1942, Acuff, with Fred Rose, established Acuff-Rose Publishing, Nashville's first country music publishing company. The Grand Ole Opry's host at this time was fiddler and singer Roy Acuff. The broadcasts brought country music to a wider audience and led to Nashville's stature as the home of country music. The same year Lomax began his journey, the Grand Ole Opry, which had been airing on radio station WSM of Nashville since 1925, made its first nationwide network broadcast on NBC. Ethnomusicologists consider the recordings made on this field trip to be among the most important in this genre. The Lomaxes recorded hundreds of performances of ballads, blues, cowboy songs, field hollers, spirituals, and work songs in nine southern states.
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In 1939, John Lomax and his wife, Ruby, began a recording tour through the South for the fledgling Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Gene Autry was known as "America's favorite singing cowboy," but he had competition in Roy Rogers and The Sons of the Pioneers. With the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s, Hollywood westerns popularized the image of the cowboy as the face of country music. In 1997 Bob Dylan assembled an all-star cast for The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers, a tribute album that included performances of Rodgers' songs by Dylan, Van Morrison, Bono, Jerry Garcia, Alison Krauss, Willie Nelson, and Dwight Yoakam. In 1927, Ralph Peer of Victor Records held an audition for new talent in Bristol, Tennessee and discovered two defining and influential acts: The Carter Family, who made more than 250 recordings, many of them now standards, in the next fourteen years, and Jimmie Rodgers, an erstwhile railroad worker soon to gain fame as "The Singing Brakeman." Rodgers' career was cut short when he died in 1933 at the age of thirty-five, but his influence can be felt not just in modern country music but in modern pop music. It had many imitators, and directly led to the Nashville-based Grand Ole Opry. The influential program was broadcast throughout the Midwest and ran in some form until 1968. WLS Radio in Chicago introduced the National Barn Dance on April 19, 1924. Budding country artists of the 1920s could purchase musical instruments, as well as songbooks and printed music, through the Sears catalog. If tradition informed the music, commerce and technology, in the form of recordings and radio, helped it spread. Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, 1931 Photo courtesy of the BCMA Museum Both were staples of the traditional repertoire, a status that was reinforced by the success of the recordings. In 1922, the Victor and Okeh recording companies recorded the first country music artists, among them fiddler Eck Robertson, who performed "Arkansas Traveler" and "Sallie Gooden" for Victor Records.
The first commercial country music recordings date to the 1920s. The Novemperformance featured host Bob DiPiero with Clint Black, Patty Loveless and Tim Nichols.Ī performance that included singer-songwriter Jessi Alexander and Nashville songwriter Wayland Holyfield, whose music has been recorded by Randy Travis, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Reba McEntire, Ernest Tubb, George Strait and George Jones.Ī performance that included singer-songwriters Brett James and Lyle Lovett.Ī performance at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium that included singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton, whose music has been recorded by George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw and Brad Paisley.
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