hip-hop influencing genres. In ten years time, there will potentially be different music. However the discussion I will discuss is styles of country, blues and jazz and how it evolved. Honky-Tonk- The key Artists for Hony tonk are Hank Williams, Webb Piece, Lefy Frizzell and Hank Thompson Honky-tonk was described as a style of music which was popular during the 1950s and early 1960s how it evolved is
Trace Adkins put out some good country music like Honky Tonk Badonkadonk is his number one hit song and It's Adkins only platinum single it came out in 2005. Songs About Me is the 8th song on the top ten. The song finds a way to sum up everything great about country music without coming across as trite or hackneyed. 'Songs About Me' was the title track to an album.You're Gonna Miss This. The 2009 ACM Single of the Year is the most successful of the emotionally driven songs. Just Fishin. Most recently
Country music has changed over the past decades, as all music does, stepping away from the focus on freedom, family, friends, faith, and home, to songs about women, drinking, dirt roads, and big trucks. Many people feel that this has led to the objectification of women, creating an unrealistic expectation for women to live up to. Most artist have followed the lead of this and are writing more and more songs about these issues to stay with the trends, as many people enjoy this twist because it is
Honky Tonk is a subgenre of country music. There is a heavy use of string instruments and there is also percussion. Musical elements include a ‘cracking’ vocal style and sometimes twangy sound. Topics include romantic troubles, family separation, and divorce. Kitty Wells and Hank Williams are honky tonk artists. Song examples are “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” and “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry.” Bluegrass music derives from musical styles brought over from Scotland, Ireland, and England
Dennis DeYoung was a member of Styx specializing in keyboarding and vocalizing. He is currently 71 years old and still living the dream. He started his career as a vocalist in 1961 by teaming up with his neighbors in a 3 piece combo. He stayed in Styx from 1970 until middle of 1999. He alone has a net worth of $25 million as an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Although he was a part of Styx, he longed to have a solo career of his own and started as early as 1984, producing 4 albums. These
Eric Church is a country legend. He has written over 26 songs and achieved pure greatness. Eric Kenneth Church was born on May 3, 1977 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He started getting into music when he was 13. Eric even taught himself to play guitar and by the time he was 21, he started to play for restaurants and bars. One day Terri Clark asked Eric if she could help him write a new song. Terri and Eric’s new song, “The World Needs a Drank” caught the eye of record company Capitol Nashville
For this project, I chose to go to a concert with my parents at Honky-Tonk Texas, a bar they regularly attend. I chose this place because I have never been and I wanted to see how my parents spend their nights out. The method of observation that was used was asking questions, taking notes, and participating. Participation at the bar included activities like dancing, trying the food, and singing along to the band. Honky-Tonk Texas, The bar, was located in Silsbee, Texas near the Wal-Mart. The bar
The genre of this song would be identified to be country, honky tonk, and blues. I discovered the country sound right off the bat when I began to play the recording. It was easy to identify the genre being country because of its’ sub-genre of the honky tonk sound and blues. The basic honky tonk sound features acoustic and/or electric guitar, fiddle, string bass, and steel guitar (which was imported from Hawaiian music), while the vocals often draw from the so-called "high lonesome" sound of traditional
Country music once started out as “bout that twang and trains and hillbilly thing” as Trace Adkins would say. But as we have evolved and technology has changes so has societies taste in country music. Country music was founded in the rural part of society, but as time as gone on and people have changed so has the music. Country now has evolved into a more pop sound rather than the twang it started out as. Why has the music changed, and what caused this change? Let me take you back in time where it
Johnny Horton’s real name was John LaGale Horton. Horton was most well-known for making music in multiple types of genres like Country Boogie, Rockabilly, Honky Tonk, and Traditional Country. Throughout Horton’s childhood, his family moved from California to Texas. His mother taught him how to play the guitar at the age of 11. He moved to Alaska in 1949 which is when he became a fisherman. During his time in Alaska as a child is when he created the song, titiled, “North to Alaska”. The next year