Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
There is a bit of a movement as far as younger people in country music. That is cool because people are saying things like, 'I didn't listen to country music until so-and-so came along.' And I'm like, 'Yeah! Now you know why I love it.'
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.
When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.