Country dance music {Western Swing}| {Country Swing} can be in southwest-USA style. Bob Wills lived 1905 to 1975 and led the Texas Playboys.
Appalachian-Mountain folk music {Appalachian style} derived from old English styles.
New-Orleans syncopated two-step or waltz music {Cajun music}| can use fiddle and accordion. It came from French Catholic sources. D. L. Menard, Dewey Balfa, Belton Richard, Blind Uncle Gaspard, and Harry Choates preceded Balfa Toujours, Steve Riley, the Mamou Playboys, and La Bande Feufollet.
Country music can use different-size jugs {jug band}|, guitar, washtub, washboard, spoons, kazoo, and mandolin. Players blow air across jug tops.
Arthur Crudup, Elvis, Sam Perkins, and Bill Flagg played {rockabilly}|.
Folk ballads can be western-movie style {western music}|. Roy Rogers and Gene Autry were western music singers.
Music {Zydeco}| developed from Creole music and New Orleans style jazz [1910 to 1930]. Southwest-Louisiana syncopated fast-paced music {la-la} {zodico} uses accordions or melodeons, corrugated metal boards {frottoir} {rub-board}, drums, and electric guitars. Amédé Ardoin [1928], Beau Jocque, Boozoo Chavis, Clifton Chenier, Buckwheat Zydeco, and Rockin' Sidney are Zydeco musicians. Rockin' Sidney played My Toot Toot.
South-USA folk music {bluegrass, music}| uses mandolin, violin, banjo, or guitar at fast tempo. It often has improvisations as instruments take the melody in turn, as in jazz. It derived from British folk music. Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys began bluegrass [1939]. The Foggy Mountain Boys, the Stanley Brothers, and Don Reno followed. Earl Scruggs used three-finger banjo roll {Scruggs style}. Lester Flatt sang and played guitar.
Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, and Roy Clark developed modern country sounds {Bakersfield Sound}.
Modern country music {Nashville Sound} uses jazz and popular styles. Chet Atkins, Owen Bradley, Bob Ferguson, Patsy Cline, and Floyd Cramer were stars in the first decade. It became countrypolitan in later 1960's.
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