Essays on Country Music

Dolly Parton is an American singer who originally wrote the song ‘I will always love you’ in 1974 then later on she recorded another version for the 1982 movie ‘the best little whorehouse in Texas’ she originally wrote this song after a breakup. Whitney Huston...

Worldviews and Country Music Country music is an old and important genre. It has always been extremely influential both within American Culture and western culture more broadly. Country music (in its early days) was notable for its sad and sorrow filed lyrics, which made it...

Country music started as the music of the white working class. It was a style of music that originated in the southern United States. It came from Appalachian folk music, the blues, and Celtic folk music, and was originally called Hillbilly music. Most country music...

Sound Versus Sound You can tell a lot about someone by the music they listen to. I feel like if I took a strangers phone and listened to the music they had, I would already have a good idea about them and the things they...

Since it was first invented music has played a huge role in the lives of people. From generation to generation music defines people and is a means of expressing concerns and emotions to the audience. Florida Georgia Line is one of the most influential country...

Sometimes we associate our feelings and emotions through songs, especially if we are broken hearted, sad or happy. I grew up in a neighborhood where in music is part of their everyday life. At dusk the old folks gather with their guitar, bottles of whiskey...

I attended a Dierks Bentley concert on August 23rd, 2019. The concert was held at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, Illinois. I found the venue to be very fitting for the artist and his method of performance. It was outdoors and still rather...

The Nashville sound isn’t quite what you’d expect. The Nashville sound doesn’t have fiddles and steel guitars. It’s more of a refined sound with chorus singers in the background and orchestra style playing for the instrumental. The point was to get people to listen again...