I loved country music when I was growing up, and still listen to it every once in a while.
Who is your favorite country singer. I like it because it gets it's roots from genres like folk music and blues.
Garth Brooks was always one of my favorites, but I enjoy George Strait a lot as well.
My mom loved George Strait. In 2009, country music was the most listened to music during rush hour. It's what I always tune in to while sitting in traffic.
It definitely does mellow me out.  When was country music created?
It originated in the south part of the United States in the early 1920's.
Do you happen to know who the first artists were?
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
of art - always," a quote that appeared on the sleeve of Jones' 1976 album "The Battle". In the documentary "Same Ole Me", several country music stars offer similar thoughts. Johnny Cash: "When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, 'You mean besides George Jones?'"; Randy Travis: "It sounds like he's lived every minute of every word that he sings and there's very few people who can do that"; Tom T.