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Stevo
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Re: Country & Western Challenge
Sep 29, 2015, 17:48
I think honkytonk is more 40s 50s and gave birth to a lotof the more lasting classics.

Hillbilly boogie sounds like a less amped r'n'r about 10 years early and is really great.
Western Swing is late 40s and pretty great.

For a while country was like a white equivalent to the blues, the same songs sung by people of which ever ethnic background would turn up in either the country or race charts. There was a lot of crossover of material and influence.

& the more churchy old timey stuff is a different thing too.

THere is lots of great stuff from those years and it only really became schmaltzy in the late 50s and 60s I think, possibly a little earlier since low common denominator stuff tends to sell widely.

I used to love the bar Son Of Redneck behind Selfridges on Oxford st in the mid 80s. Used to play a loto f40s and 50s country,. Is there anything like taht still happening in London I wonder.

Stevo
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