Country Music Quiz

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What artist is credited with starting country's modern era in the 1990's?
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The Grand Ole Opry country variety show became a huge success for Nashville Radio Station:
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With outlaw country and disco hurting country music sales, Nashville looked to streamline country music to a more city based audience by creating
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Eck Robertson's "Sallie Gooden" was the first commercially produced country recording
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Country music has it's earliest origins in the folk music of the
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Guitar technique invented by Maybelle Carter were melody and chords are all played at once.
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Nashville's new genre of Honky Tonk added back the steel guitar and drums while keeping the blues influence of Bluegrass. What Alabama country start is best known for Honky Tonk?
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Bill Monroe added the Blues to traditional folk country to create this genre of country. It emphasized the banjo over the fiddle and guitar.
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What events led to the end of Western Swing?
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Gaining popularity in the Dance Halls of the mid west; this genre of country was a combination of Jazz and early hillbilly music.
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Disillusioned with the style of the Nashville Sound and the control of the record industry, Willie Nelson broke away from Nashville to pioneer this type of rebel country.
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Hollywood's Western Era in the 1930's inspired this genre of country closely related to Western Swing
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The Pop jazz oriented Ballad style of the Nashville Sound during the 60's was country's response what new popular genre?
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Who was the first solo female country music artist?
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The Appalachian folk music of the South was first recorded in the