Chet Atkins banned fiddles and banjos on Music Row to shed 'the rural poor' images from country AND western. He wanted to compete with pop and rock and roll. The 'traditionalists' made a bit of a comeback but the 'Nashville Pop' and Bro-country' mongers balls-it-up again.
Chet Atkins banned fiddles and banjos on Music Row to shed 'the rural poor' images from country AND western. He wanted to compete with pop and rock and roll. The 'traditionalists' made a bit of a comeback but the 'Nashville Pop' and Bro-country' mongers balls-it-up again.
Chet Atkins banned fiddles and banjos on Music Row... (show quote)
Jimmie Rodgers was pretty good. One of the great stories of Country is A.P. Carter traveling Appalachia collecting songs from the hollers. At one time my Italian grandfather played in a little jug band in the hills of W.Va.
Jimmie Rodgers was pretty good. One of the great stories of Country is A.P. Carter traveling Appalachia collecting songs from the hollers. At one time my Italian grandfather played in a little jug band in the hills of W.Va.