Welcome to Country Music Haven
The site that gives you information
on everything country music related! It will keep you up
to date on new and old
country
music hits, all your favorite artists and songs, and
even gives you information on upcoming tour dates in the
Long Island Area! If you're a big country
music fan, this site is for you!
Country Music Background
- Country music, also known as country and western and hillbilly music is a genre of popular music that originated in the South in the United States in the early 1920s.
- The origins of country music are found in the folk music of working class Americans, who blended popular songs, Irish and Celtic tunes, traditional English ballads, cowboy songs, and the musical traditions of various groups of European immigrants
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The first commercial country record was made by Eck Robertson in 1922 on the Victor Records label.
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Vernon Dalhart had the first national country hit in 1924 with “Wreck of the Old ’97.”
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But most historians point to 1927, the year Victor Records signed Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family, as the true moment country music was born.
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