I used to really like country music, but have pretty much fallen out with it since the 90's.  Do you like it?
yes, I like it.  It orginated in the United States in the early 1920's
I liked Garth Brooks a lot back int he day.  Then more moved into "texas" country
I used to like him too.  country music takes its roots from genres such as folk music and blues
Yes, you can hear it for sure the older the music is.  It seems like nowadays it has gotten much much more pop and much less blues and folk.  Except for maybe a few.
yes, it consist of ballads and dance tunes with generally simple forms, folk lyric and harmonies
Right, I used to go country dancing a lot when I was in my early twenties.  I'm from texas, we learned to two-step around the same time we learned to walk
as pedal steels and dobros), and fiddles as well as harmonicas. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.
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
didn't put myself out as much as I should have."
Andrew Pendlebury (ex-Myriad) joined on guitar in August 1977 and assisted Cummings with song writing. Cummings recalled, "I just vaguely met people and dragged them into it. I always wanted Andrew in the group as a guitarist and I had an idea for a rockabilly country sound. But I always wanted to change it because I really liked the MC5 and wanted to make it more like that as well." In May 1978 The Sports