texts: topic: Country music  <s> Do you know what the first country song was? </s> <s> no but  Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple form </s> <s> Some of them are pretty depressing too, don't you think?
labels: Indeed I have heard According to Lindsey Starnes, the term "country music" gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term "hillbilly music"