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
All great choices! Can you believe that prior to the 1940s, country music was known as hillbilly music? 
It makes sense, because it can trace its roots from Appalachia.
Country music
Country music, also known as country and western (or simply country), and hillbilly music, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s. It takes its roots from genres such as American folk music (especially Appalachian folk and Western music) and blues.
Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyrics, and harmonies mostly accompanied by string instruments such as banjos, electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitars (such
, "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,