history: I loved country music when I was growing up, and still listen to it every once in a while.
knowledge: It takes its roots from genres such as folk music (especially Appalachian folk music) and blues.
response: Oh, that's cool. Country's roots are in folk and blues music. Who's your favorite?
history: I loved country music when I was growing up, and still listen to it every once in a while.
Oh, that's cool. Country's roots are in folk and blues music. Who's your favorite?
Garth Brooks was always one of my favorites, but I enjoy George Strait a lot as well.
knowledge: In 2009, in the United States country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second most popular in the morning commute.
response: Ah, OK. Well, back in 2009, country was the most popular radio genre for the evening rush hour.
history: I loved country music when I was growing up, and still listen to it every once in a while.
Oh, that's cool. Country's roots are in folk and blues music. Who's your favorite?
Garth Brooks was always one of my favorites, but I enjoy George Strait a lot as well.
Ah, OK. Well, back in 2009, country was the most popular radio genre for the evening rush hour.
It definitely does mellow me out.  When was country music created?
knowledge: Country (or country and western) is a musical genre that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
response: It originated in the south part of the United States in the early 1920's.
history: I loved country music when I was growing up, and still listen to it every once in a while.
Oh, that's cool. Country's roots are in folk and blues music. Who's your favorite?
Garth Brooks was always one of my favorites, but I enjoy George Strait a lot as well.
Ah, OK. Well, back in 2009, country was the most popular radio genre for the evening rush hour.
It definitely does mellow me out.  When was country music created?
It originated in the south part of the United States in the early 1920's.
Do you happen to know who the first artists were?
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: Sorry, I'm not sure, but according to Lindsey Starnes, the name ''country music'' became wide known in the 40's over the previous term ''hillbilly music.