One of my favorite music genres is country
Country music is pretty great. It's been around since the early 1920s!
Yes, and it has gone through many changes throughout the years
It certainly has! I like the diversity of country music. You can find ballads and dance tunes. There's something for everyone.
I grew up listening to artists like Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, and George Jones.  My family was always big into it
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According to Lindsey Starnes, the term "country music" gained popularity in the 1940s in preference to the earlier term "hillbilly music"; it came to encompass Western music, which evolved parallel to hillbilly music from similar roots, in the mid-20th century. In 2009 in the United States, country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, and second
, "Greatest Hits – Chapter One". In an interview with "Billboard", Clarkson expressed her excitement of recording the song, saying
People have been wanting me to release something specifically for country radio for years, but I didn't want to just release something that has a steel guitar on it [...] I wanted to release something I'm proud of, and we finally found that song. It's my favorite kind of country music; it's like 1980s, 1990s country music, that throwback,