Classic Country Songs (The Relaxing Music)

Songs play a vital role in our lives, they represent our thoughts, feelings, expressions, and behavior.

Music has the ability to understand people easily for example children learn poems and the alphabet in a singing way to memorize quickly. Music engages our brains and shows up our personality traits.

Country music is characterized by simple melodies, folk lyrics, and harmonies in its ballads and dance tunes, which are accompanied by a variety of guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, and banjos.

Classic country music has an enduring appeal and has greatly enriched the history of the genre. A treasure mine of timeless masterpieces can be found by looking through the discographies of performers like Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, and many others.

What is Meant by Country Music?

Country music is a genre that prominently relates to America, including bluegrass blue, folk music , church music, and rural area music. Country music originated in the southwestern US in the early 1920s.

Another name for country music is country and Western; the instruments usually used are guitars, banjos, harmonicas, and fiddles. It gained more popularity in the 1940s when hillbilly music was recognized.

Origin of Country Music

As we know that country music consists of different styles of music, and it is not only in a single theme. When we look back and read about the origin we know that in 1920, the very first-string band music was recorded. For this article, the Carter family was famous at that time.

The head of the family A.P Carter was the one who used folk themes on guitar. His wife and sister-in-law also helped him by playing the autoharp. They sang Wild Wood Flowerand Can the Circle Be Brokenand they became the super hit country music of that time.

After the Carter family, Jimmie Rodgers who is the second earliest star of that time, played bluegrass blue with the new style of guitar. He mixed different music styles to create his unique song and introduce a new technique known as Yodeling which was released and became much more popular at that time.

The Popularity of Country Music

The means of popularity for country music is the source of radio. In the early 90s, two programs Grand Ole Opry by Nashville and National Barn Dance by Chicago were started on air. These programs were helpful to encourage new talent of that time.

Western music and old-time music were more heard by people at that time. Western music gained popularity when the cowboy movie Western was released. It was released in the 1930s after its release the singers of this music Roy Rogers and Gene Autry recognized as the biggest singing star instead of the hilly Billy music of the old times.

When country music was becoming popular, other new variations were added to it. Western swing a name of Western dance style music was introduced in the US, in which the band used amplified instruments to make it unique and loud. Other Western swing music artists were The Texas Playboy, Bob Wills, R&B, and Elvis Presley.

Honky Tonk a new style of country music was first introduced in in 1940s, the band used fiddle, bass and drum, guitar, with slow tunes because the songs represent grief and loneliness. Honky Tonk’s famous singers include Jean Shepard, Lefty Frizell, Ernest Tub, and Hank Williams.

Bluegrass music, a new genre of music also became notable in this era. Bluegrass was actually, the revival of country music. Famous artists for bluegrass style are the Bluegrass Boys and Bill Monroe.

Some Famous Singers Who Worked for Country Music

• Nitty Gritty Band
• Chet Atkins
• Little Richard
• Jim Reeves
• George Jones
• Patsy Cline
• Tammy Wynette

An Opportunity for New Talent

For the engrossment of country music, a music recording company in Nashville gave a chance to new talent. Besides the efforts of this organization, most of the artists did not like the style in which they worked.

In the 1960s, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Willie Nelson , Johny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson played a vital role to introduce outlaw country music which includes folk music.

The Highwayman was one of the masterpieces of that time. Another new category Country Rock added in mid-’60s, prominent musicians and artists including Neil Young, Gram Parsons, and Bob Dylan worked on folk rock. Country pop, protest songs, and other new categories were also introduced at that time.

Now after the brief review of country songs’ origin, let’s read about classic country songs and other information related to this category.

Classic Country Songs

Classical music commonly refers to the music which originated between 1750 to 1830. The term classical music is defined as music that consists of Western music heritage. The music style is unique because of its simplicity, seriousness, slow tune, and soft lyrics, all of these features make it related to the arts.

For the growth and publicity of classical music, some names such as Mozart and Haydn are popular. We should also remember the name of Beethoven . At that time new tunes by using orchestra , were introduced.

If we only talk about Mozart, his ultimate hardworking, work is the roots of classic country music. He defined the music of quartets, choral pieces, entire operas, and pianos.

Classical music is based on the sonata, the oratorio, the opera, the symphony, and the concert. They all originated in Italy, and the other followers Westerns, Germans, and Austrians also liked and followed them.

The concert is the composition of the orchestra, the sonata is the music created by various instruments, and the symphony is the music played by the orchestra. Haydn at that time, was known to be the father of classical music. He was a master in symphony.

When we talk about classical music, we use the term Aria (Australian recorded industry Association) which is defined as music composed by a solo tone or voice.

Some Famous Classical Country Songs From the Era

• Moonlight Sonata – Beethoven
• Canon in D Major – Pachelbel
• Für Elise – Beethoven
• Hungarian Rhapsody, S. 244, R. 106, No. 2 – Liszt
• Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2 – Chopin
• Clair de Lune – Debussy
• The Four Seasons – Vivaldi
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Mozart
• Johann Strauss II – The Blue Danube
• Delibes – ‘Flower Duet from Lakmé
• Grieg – ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite
• Boléro – Ravel
• Overture from The Marriage of Figaro- Mozart
• ‘Dance of the Knights from Romeo and Juliet – Prokofiev

Some Recent Classical Country Songs

Classical singers, sing traditional and art lyrics with historic music style. The singers might encourage history or religious aspects.

Here are classical songs with artists mentioned in the table.

Title of the song	Artist
Cryin Time	Buck Ovens
If We Make It Through December	Merle Haggard
Sixteen Tons	Tennessee Ernie Ford
Linda Is On My Mind	Conway Twitty
Still	Bill Anderson
I Fall to Pieces	Patsy Cline
Do You Remember These	The Statler Brothers
I Ain’t Never	Mel Tillis
It’s Only Make Believe	Conway Twitty
Easy Loving	Freddie Hart
Ode to Billie Joe	Bobbie Gentry
Honey	Bobby Goldsboro
Mama Tried	Merle Haggard
Empty Arms	Sonny James
Dang Me	Roger Miller
Act Naturally	Buck Owens
I Love	Tom T. Hall
Funny How Time Slips Away	Willie Nelson
My Special Angel	Bobby Helms
Gone	Furlin Husky
White Lighting	George Jones
Young Love	Sonny James
I Walk the Line	Johnny Cash
King of the Road	Roger Miller
Walking After Midnight	Patsy Cline
Lead Me On	Loretta Lynn
Crazy	Patsy Cline
I’m Sorry	Brenda Lee
She Thinks I Still Care	George Jones
From a Jack to a King	Ned Miller
Walk on by	Leroy Van Dyke
Mama Sang a Song	Bill Anderson
The Wings of a Dove	Ferlin Husky
She Thinks I Still Care	George Jones
Galveston	Glen Campbell
Behind Closed Doors	Charlie Rich
Please Help Me I am Falling	Hank Locklin
You Have Never Been This Far Before	Conway Twitty
Cold Cold Hearts	Hank Williams
Jambalaya	Hank Williams
Hey Good Lockin	Hank Williams
Welcome to my World	Jim Reeves
I’m Moving On	Hank Snow
A Satisfied Mind	Porter Wagoner
Suspicious Minds	Elvis Presley
Flowers on the Wall	The Statler brother
Detroit City	Bobby Bare

There are so many other classical songs that gain attention of the music lovers, but it is impossible to mention all the songs in one place.

Why Classical Music is Different From Other Music Genres?

Depending upon the theme, instruments used, lyrics, and style of singing, classical music differs from other music genres.

Usually, the classical music style is richer in melody, harmony, and heritage. Classical music is focused on the lyrics of the song, instead of music and background theme.

People have different tastes, not everyone like classical music. Popular music is best for parties and mainly the younger generation likes it, whereas classical music is complex by nature, played in orchestra or symphony.

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Conclusion

• Classical music is a sophisticated style of music, played in the symphony.
• It is related to arts and heritage, that makes it unique.
• The instruments used in classical music are the piano, flute, harp, and violin. It is specifically made for quiet listeners, who love peace.
• Unfortunately, as time passes people of the new generation love popular and modern styles of music. Classical music is losing its place because of a lack of interest in the younger generation.

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