Country Music Association Awards

Justin Moore lets his fans know how appreciative he is of all they’ve done for him in ‘Flyin’ Down a Back Road.’ Moore tells Taste of Country the song was written in the same spirit as ‘Small Town USA,’ he’ll continue to include songs like this on future projects. “People want to know what you sound like coming out of the radio but they also wanna know who you are as a person,” he says. “They wanna know that opening up for Alan Jackson still gets you excited.” The first two verses are focused on…

The Day the Music Died: On 1959, Billie Holiday, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper died when their plane crashed in Iowa. The event became known as "The Day the Music Died", and was memorialized…

freedom to love and freedom to care. United means a country that has united. Loyalty means loyal to fight loyal to save our country and loyal to sacrifice your life. Honor means we honor our fellow family members some solders and most important our savers. War means the war that saved our country. Bravery means brave enough to die for you country brave enough to sacrifice your life. Courageous means believe to save our country believe to win and believe to risk…

years old and had little memory of Moldova. Even though I lived in the USA for six years, and was going to continue living here for the rest of my life, I still did not consider myself an American. 2009 was the first time I was going back to my home country after moving to the United States. I was excited, thinking I could finally meet some people who shared the same culture, values, and ideas…

Biography”). Many people recognize his legacy as an icon but seem to be oblivious to the history behind the individual nicknamed as “The King”. Elvis Presley’s life is the story of a man that, despite his humble childhood, managed to gain popularity in the music and film industry and whose late life and death still echo in history. Elvis Aron Presley was welcomed into this world on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Being his twin brother stillborn, Elvis was “Raised by loving,…

Rap and Country Everyone around the world listens to various types of music. In America the two most popular kinds of music are Rap and Country. As they seem to be very different types of music they have multiple similarities. Rap and Country music have more differences than similarities. Rap and Country music have become the two most popular choice of music in America. There is a lot of argument that these two types of music are nothing alike but in fact there are many similarities. Rap…

Web. 14 Apr. 2016.) In the early of July in 1954 The King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley, started his music career. Elvis Presley was an revolutionist that rebelled against the status quo and changed music to what it is today. With his sui generis singing voice, his effort on racism, and influence that affected other artists, including blues, jazz and country artists he changed the way music was heard for all of time. Elvis Presley’s vocal range was described as “all at once a tenor, a…

"Gospel is first and foremost a direct descendent of spirituals. What Thomas Dorsey and his friends kept as the defining attributes of gospel music - the call-and-response format, ample room for improvisation, rhythm, frequent use of the flatted seventh and third in melodies - remain true even today. The elements introduced by later musical forms, such as close harmonies, a sense of professionalism , showmanship, the regular use of an AAB rhyming scheme, and a pronounce beat all endure, but are…

undeniable link. In one part of the country, mountain music, known as hillbilly music, was working its way out of the Catskill mountain range and into local record stores and radio stations. In the deep south, mostly around the Mississippi river delta, deals with the devil were being made to make blues the most popular type in the area. Both of the genres gave birth to modern rock and roll, but contributed in different ways. But how did these two distinct forms of music, with different…

write about what it means to be an American. It is the tendency of people to identify themselves with a group. Whether that be a team, a state, town, gang, school, country, it doesn 't really matter. People love to be a part of something bigger than themselves, and countries are no different and definitively fall into this category. Countries are normally relatively simple to group. For thousands of years, wherever you lived or your religion generally determined what nationality you were. Even…