Some of the Black performers he recorded, including Will Shade, leader of the Memphis Jug Band, later came to be viewed as R&B pioneers.
Music historians sometimes trace the birth of country music as a recorded genre to the 1920s, when the Victor Talking Machine Company-not primarily a record label, but a manufacturer of record players-sent Ralph Peer south in search of singers. But in country music, traditional instruments like the banjo and the pedal steel guitar tend to fall in and out of favor, as country singers try to figure out precisely how “country” they really want to be. The basic template for a rock ’n’ roll band has remained remarkably stable ever since the seventies: drums, electric bass, and, above all, electric guitar.
Country music is more old-fashioned than rock ’n’ roll, but less traditional-or, rather, more ambivalent about tradition. From the start, it was marketed as unusually honest music, linked to the perceived simplicity of rural life in America. But when it comes to country music, people seem to disagree on just about everything else. Just about everyone can agree on Dolly Parton.
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