Country

Country, sometimes also called hillbilly, is a music genre that was born in the Southern United States as a result of merging of folk, blues and gospel music. Its quick evolvement has begun in 1920s, and then counrty was very popular until 1970s.

Country is usually described as "Cowboy songs" or "American music", songs of white immigrants and cowboys. Usually it tells about loneliness, love and common people's daily life. Music is based on guitar and banjo, and rarely violin.

Genre top albums

Bad As Me 2011
by Tom Waits

Extravagant bluesman Tom Waits released the new album, which became the seventeenth in his discography. Following a good tradition, the record Bad as Me will demonstrate a great variety of genres and moods

For The Good Times 2012
by The Little Willies

Country, a warm music from the southern states of America, will help to wile cold winter months. Meet the brand new album of a quintet The Little Willies - For The Good Times

Need You Now 2010
by Lady Antebellum

The American formation Lady Antebellum is capable of becoming history-makers in the contemporary country society. Their new studio work, Need You Now, is an amazingly mature record likely to please every fan of the given style

This Is Country Music 2011
by Brad Paisley

Famous country musician Brad Paisley released his ninth studio album with quite a logical name: This Is Country Music. The musician’s signature style and sense of humor await the listeners

The Guitar Song 2010
by Jamey Johnson

The country-music hero Jamey Johnson's new album is so big that it is presented on two CDs and lasts more than a hundred minutes. The Guitar Song is not a conceptual work, but a collection of good and relatively different songs

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