Country Music History

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Many republican presidents enjoy country music, and came to the Grand Old Opry in Nashville. Country music is the type of music that worships cowboy pride. In other words means the life of a cowboy when doing things such as drinking riding horses, bar fights, and going to jail. When some country stars were asked about this many said they were involved with all these things at one point in their life, but the start of country music expanding outside of Nashville started with a group called the Outsiders.
The country artist that inspired the term the outsider was the man in black himself, Johnny Cash. Many country singers in this day and age look at him for the beginning of the inspiration. Willie Nelson says, “I get high on Johnny Cash, I’m

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