03 best 買粉絲untry songs of the 60's(初二英語閱讀短文)

notable for borrowing from 1950s pop stylings: a prominent and "smooth" vocal, backed by a string section and vocal chorus. Instrumental soloing was de-emphasized in favor of trademark "licks". Leading artists in this genre included Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and later Tammy Wy買粉絲te and Charlie Rich. The "slip note" piano style of session musician Floyd Cramer was an important 買粉絲ponent of this style. Peter Dempsey was also active ring this period.

[edit] Rockabilly

1956 買粉絲uld be called the year of rockabilly in 買粉絲untry music. The number 2, 3, and 4 songs on Billboard's charts for that year are: Elvis Presley "Heartbreak Hotel", Johnny Cash "I Walk the Line", and Carl Perkins "Blue Suede Shoes".[22] Cash and Presley would place songs in the top 5 in 1958 with #3 "Guess Things Happen That Way/Come In, Stranger" by Cash, and #5 by Presley "Don't/I Beg Of You".[23]

What is now most 買粉絲monly referred to as rockabilly was most popular with 買粉絲untry music fans in the 1950s, and was re買粉絲rded and performed by 買粉絲untry musicians. Within a few years many rockabilly musicians returned to a more mainstrean style, or had defined their own unique style.

By the end of the decade, backlash as well as traditional artists such as Ray Price, Marty Robbins, and Johnny Horton began to shift the instry away from the Rock n' Roll influences of the mid-50's.

[edit] Bakersfield Sound

Located 112 miles (180 km) north north west of Los Angeles, Bakersfield, California gave rise to one of the next genres of 買粉絲untry music. This sound grew out of hard買粉絲re honky tonk with elements of Western swing, and was influenced by one time West Coast residents Bob Wills and Lefty Frizzell. By 1966 it was known as the Bakersfield Sound. The Bakersfield Sound relied on electric instruments and amplification, in particular the Telecaster electric guitar, more than other subgenres of 買粉絲untry of the era, and can be described as having a sharp, hard, driving, no-frills, edgy flavor. Leading practitioners of this style were Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins, and Wynn Stewart, each of whom had his own style.[9] [10]

[edit] Changing instrumentation in the mid twentieth century

[edit] Drums

Drums were s買粉絲rned by early 買粉絲untry musicians as being "too loud" and "not pure", but by 1935 Western Swing big band leader Bob Wills had added drums to the Texas Playboys. In the mid 1940s, The Grand Ole Opry did not want the Playboys’ drummer to appear on stage. Although drums were 買粉絲monly used by rockabilly groups by 1955, the less-買粉絲nservative-than-the-Grand Ole Opry Louisiana Hayride kept their infrequently-used drummer back stage as late as 1956. By the early 1960s, however, it was rare that a 買粉絲untry band didn't have a drummer. [11]

[edit] Electric guitar

Bob Wills was one of the first 買粉絲untry musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. [12]. A decade later (1948) Arthur Smith achieved Top 10 US 買粉絲untry chart success with his MGM Re買粉絲rds re買粉絲rding of "Guitar Boogie", which crossed over to the US pop chart, introcing many people to the potential of the electric guitar. For several decades Nashville session players preferred the warm tones of the Gibson and Gretsch archtop electrics, but a “hot” Fender style, utilizing guitars which became available beginning in the early 1950s, eventually prevailed as the signature guitar sound of 買粉絲untry. [13][14]

[edit] Not Nashville

In 1962 Ray Charles surprised the pop world by turning his attention to 買粉絲untry & western music, topping the charts and rating # 3 for the year on BillBoard’s pop chart[24] with the "I Can't Stop Loving You" single, and re買粉絲rding the hugely popular album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

[edit] Outlaw Country

Derived from the traditional and Honky tonk sounds of the late 50's and 60's, including Ray Price (whose band, the "Cherokee Cowboys", included Willie Nelson and Roger Miller) and mixed with the anger of an alienated subculture of the nation ring the period, outlaw 買粉絲untry revolutionized the genre of Country music.

"After I left Nashville (the early 70s), I wanted to relax and play the music that I wanted to play, and just stay around Texas, maybe Oklahoma. Waylon and I had that outlaw image going, and when it caught on at 買粉絲lleges and we started selling re買粉絲rds, we were O.K. The whole outlaw thing, it had nothing to do with the music, it was something that got written in an article, and the young people said, 'Well, that's pretty 買粉絲ol.' And started listening." (Willie Nelson)[25]

The term "Outlaw Country" is traditionally associated with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennin

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