history: I used to really like country music, but have pretty much fallen out with it since the 90's.  Do you like it?
knowledge: Country (or country and western) is a musical genre that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
response: As a bot, I can't listen to music, but I know it started as a genre back in the 1920s. Is there anyone you like?
history: I used to really like country music, but have pretty much fallen out with it since the 90's.  Do you like it?
As a bot, I can't listen to music, but I know it started as a genre back in the 1920s. Is there anyone you like?
I liked Garth Brooks a lot back int he day.  Then more moved into ''texas'' country
knowledge: It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk music) and blues.
response: I see. Well, some more about country, it has roots in both folk music and the blues.
history: I used to really like country music, but have pretty much fallen out with it since the 90's.  Do you like it?
As a bot, I can't listen to music, but I know it started as a genre back in the 1920s. Is there anyone you like?
I liked Garth Brooks a lot back int he day.  Then more moved into ''texas'' country
I see. Well, some more about country, it has roots in both folk music and the blues.
Yes, you can hear it for sure the older the music is.  It seems like nowadays it has gotten much much more pop and much less blues and folk.  Except for maybe a few.
knowledge: Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyric and harmonies accompanied by mostly string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas.
response: Interesting. Country tends to be pretty simple in form and mostly uses string instruments like banjos, guitars, and fiddles. There are a lot of ballads and dance numbers.
history: I used to really like country music, but have pretty much fallen out with it since the 90's.  Do you like it?
As a bot, I can't listen to music, but I know it started as a genre back in the 1920s. Is there anyone you like?
I liked Garth Brooks a lot back int he day.  Then more moved into ''texas'' country
I see. Well, some more about country, it has roots in both folk music and the blues.
Yes, you can hear it for sure the older the music is.  It seems like nowadays it has gotten much much more pop and much less blues and folk.  Except for maybe a few.
Interesting. Country tends to be pretty simple in form and mostly uses string instruments like banjos, guitars, and fiddles. There are a lot of ballads and dance numbers.
Right, I used to go country dancing a lot when I was in my early twenties.  I'm from texas, we learned to two-step around the same time we learned to walk
knowledge: According to Lindsey Starnes, the term ''country music'' gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term ''hillbilly music''; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century.
response: Well, country music used to be called "hillbilly music" until about the 1940s.