Best Country Music Albums of All Time
By Michele Zipkin, Stacker News
On 1/16/21 at 10:00 AM EST
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Ray Price messed around with rhythm, Willie Nelson veered into jazzy realms, and modern country artists such as Eric Church and Sam Hunt meld rock and R&B with country flavors. The genre has continued to expand to feature new subgenres such as country trap perhaps the most well-known song to fit into this genre is Lil Nas X s Old Town Road. Country has gone by several different names. Country musician Harlan Howard pegged it as three chords and the truth, while others have described it as the music of heartache or line dancing. Besides having various names, country music is also a genre that welcomes the reinventing of existing songs as much as it embraces the writing of new ones.
Clarksville NowEd Bruce, country singer-songwriter, dies in Clarksville at 81.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Ed Bruce, a country music songwriter renowned for writing chart-topping hits such as “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” died in Clarksville on Friday, Jan. 8 at the age of 81.
Bruce was a member of the Screen Actors Guild, AFTRA, and the Musician’s Union, dabbling in several realms of entertainment during his 64-year career.
Beginnings
Born William Edwin Bruce Jr. on Dec. 29, 1939, in Keiser, Arkansas, the songwriter and musician was raised in Memphis. When he was 17, Sun Records owner and record producer Sam Phillips took notice of Bruce and promptly signed him to the label.
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When it comes to the Grammy Awards 2021 (January 31), female artists have dominated the nominations Dua Lipa’s
Future Nostalgia is up for five awards, as is Taylor Swift’s
Folklore (plus one for “Beautiful Ghosts” on the
Cats soundtrack). Meanwhile, Billie Eilish and Phoebe Bridgers have an impressive four each. But it’s Beyoncé who still reigns supreme, with an outstanding nine across her visual album
Black is King and Juneteenth charity single “Black Parade”.
Women haven’t always been so readily acknowledged by the Recording Academy, however. Just one was given a solo award in 2018, sparking the hashtag #GrammysSoMale Neil Portnow, then-president of the Recording Academy, responded by telling
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BAY RIDGE Who would have imagined that a sharecropper’s son with dreams of becoming a professional baseball player would ultimately become one of country music’s greatest entertainers?
Country Charley Pride, as he was affectionately called when starting out, would go on to earn 29 No. 1 hits on the country chart, 12 gold albums, be named the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year in 1971, become only the second African-American artist invited to join the Grand Ole Opry, and be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000.
Pride’s incredible talent allowed him to break the color barrier in country music and become not only the most successful African-American performers in country music but one of the most successful performers in country music history.