—> and grew into what we now know as country music. I like it too!
That was certainly one strain that blended into country.
The Country Music Hall of Fame has an amazing exhibit detailing each genre that eventually blended into today’s country music.
There will always be some folks for whom the beginning and end of Country Music was one single conference outside Bristol, TN. It’s not that there is no other country music; it’s that the authenticity is measured, like Christians trying to follow the apostles, in how closely it captures the spirit of that intarnation incarnation. It’s the ever-so-slightly blasphemous Pentecost of the True American.