MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Chet Atkins, Floyd Cramer, Nashville Sound
29 Mar 2020
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Countrypolitan: country sales dropped drastically in the 1950s, by the 1960s, nashville had become the centre of country music production. Started a cycle of soft-shell and hard-core country music: all studios and record labels there endless session musicians available, playing on. Liverpool: american culture (rock"n"roll in particular) was attractive to british teenagers, two radio stations. Lack of support from media and the music industry: bbc, bbc only featured rock and roll once a week on saturdays, radio luxembourg. Four major labels in britain: decca, emi, pye, philips, emi and decca the most active labels, licensed american music for release in the uk, no independent radio, very few independent record labels. Skiffle a popular genre: combines big band jazz with folk music, often centered on one chord (limited progressions) homemade instruments lonnie. Donegan and his skiffle group: rock and roll singers like elvis, buddy holly, bill haley, and chuck berry enormously popular in.
