The History Of Country Music

Country music first ordinated in the early 1920s, but the true moment country music started was 1927 when Victor Records signed Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. Jimmie Rodgers, “Father of Country Music”, was credited with the first million-selling single. Rodgers had complications of tuberculosis, which killed him in 1933. The Country Music Hall of Fame inducted him in 1961. The Carter Family was the first famous vocal group in country music. Their two earliest hits “Keep on the Sunny Side” and “Wildwood Flower” remain country standards to this very day (Dooley). Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family was the very start of the country music. Mr. Rodgers’s music sounds like he is playing either a banjo or a guitar. His voice is very southern;