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- By the end of the 1970s, punk and new wave pushed country rock out of the pop charts and the media limelight. The 1980s saw a resurgence of the genre, more geared to rockabilly force than folk and country balladry.
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Dec 21, 2016 · The History of Country-Rock: From ’70s Laurel Canyon to ’80s Heartland. Dave Lifton Published: December 21, 2016. Asylum Records / Hulton Archive, Getty Images / Frazer Harrison, Getty Images....
Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal styles, and additional instrumentation, most characteristically pedal steel guitars.
Mar 14, 2019 · By the late 70s, country rock and its southern rock outgrowth had been battered to the ground, virtually killed off by the challenges of disco, glam rock, punk, new wave and heavy metal. But new spins on the sound of country and rock continued to emerge.
May 13, 2021 · By Addie Moore | May 13, 2021. Alan Jackson lamented the state of the music he loves during a recent interview by declaring that "country music is gone — and it's not coming back."
Mar 28, 2018 · Even though early 20th-century country music pioneers—like A. P. Carter of the famed Carter Family—played and sang songs from an oral tradition stretching several centuries deep into British history and culture, they were not purist collectors but professional performers who often reconfigured awkward chords and arcane lyrics into a mix more palatable to live audiences and record producers.
Country rock had begun by insisting that the sources—and not the means—of popular music were of signal importance. Yet in the end the movement succeeded by adopting the same exacting production techniques pioneered by the Beatles and their producer George Martin.