Real" Country Music ???
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My oldest brother turned me on to Haggard when I was 12, giving me a couple of LP's for Christmas. He said then, and I still agree, "If Merle Haggard isn't the best country singer in the world then he'll do 'til the best gets here". 
My brother, Jake, has long since left this world, but I never see or hear Merle without thinking of him. So, I think of him nearly every day. You talk about a gift that keeps on giving...
I imagine if he were alive today he'd be an Alan Jackson fan too.
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HagFan
My brother, Jake, has long since left this world, but I never see or hear Merle without thinking of him. So, I think of him nearly every day. You talk about a gift that keeps on giving...
I imagine if he were alive today he'd be an Alan Jackson fan too.
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HagFan
Good point about the term folk music. I've heard that several times on old live recordings, too. So I think that was a common term in the 40s at least. It wasn't until the late 50s or early 60s, however, that the Kingston Trio made the term "folk music" a respectable music listened to by the majority of Americans. Then came Peter, Paul & Mary, Dylan and a whole new wave of folk music.
There's probably a reference somewhere where the term "Country Music" and "Country and Western" were first used. I've got a feeling it was actually created at some point (probably by some record executive from New York City) in order to separate it from other Pop Music.
In Tenn. when I was growing up as kid in the 50s, everybody called the old music we played with fiddles, mandolins, guitars and banjers hillbilly music or mountain music. "Wildwood Flower" was a standard. I don't remember many people calling any music Bluegrass. That was way up in Kentucky. We considered most of what we heard on the Grand Ole Opry to be hillbilly music even if Bill Monroe was playing it. If Ernest Tubb or Tex Ritter was singing, however, it was cowboy music or western music. Don't forget that there was also Cajun music, which came in on the Louisiana Hayride radio show out of New Orleans or Baton Rouge,
I forget which. Mixed in with all of this in the mid-fifties came rock & roll. That was Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis and the Everly Brothers. Nobody called it rockabilly, although we considered Jerry Lee and Elvis the the Everlys to be fellow hillbillies. They were just doing a hopped up kind of music.
RB
There's probably a reference somewhere where the term "Country Music" and "Country and Western" were first used. I've got a feeling it was actually created at some point (probably by some record executive from New York City) in order to separate it from other Pop Music.
In Tenn. when I was growing up as kid in the 50s, everybody called the old music we played with fiddles, mandolins, guitars and banjers hillbilly music or mountain music. "Wildwood Flower" was a standard. I don't remember many people calling any music Bluegrass. That was way up in Kentucky. We considered most of what we heard on the Grand Ole Opry to be hillbilly music even if Bill Monroe was playing it. If Ernest Tubb or Tex Ritter was singing, however, it was cowboy music or western music. Don't forget that there was also Cajun music, which came in on the Louisiana Hayride radio show out of New Orleans or Baton Rouge,
I forget which. Mixed in with all of this in the mid-fifties came rock & roll. That was Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis and the Everly Brothers. Nobody called it rockabilly, although we considered Jerry Lee and Elvis the the Everlys to be fellow hillbillies. They were just doing a hopped up kind of music.
RB