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Music Appreciation

underpants

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6. Country was the only game in town and drew all the talent

Reply to Haggard Celine (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 9, 2021, 09:01 AM

Sep 2021

Other than big band and some folk and jazz, anyone with musical talent tended to play country. The Grand Ole Opry broadcast everywhere and was the big show especially before TV. If you played guitar you played country until rock came along.

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Straight To Hell -- Drivin' n' Cryin' [View all] Haggard Celine Sep 2021 OP

Mystery Road is such a good album Alpeduez21 Sep 2021 #1

Your welcome! Haggard Celine Sep 2021 #2

I almost wore this tape out back in the day underpants Sep 2021 #4

A lot of early Rock n Roll singers sang some County. Haggard Celine Sep 2021 #5

Country was the only game in town and drew all the talent underpants Sep 2021 #6

I just love Drivin' n' Cryin . stonecutter357 Sep 2021 #3