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Country music
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Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres
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Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Florida Georgia Line
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Florida Georgia Line is an American country duo consisting of vocalists Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard. They have achieved major success since their inception and are one of the most successful music acts of the 2010s. The young band quickly emerged after several years starting their careers by making covers and their music has been tagged as bro-country, transitioning from the traditional country feel to their hybrid sounds and their lyrical focus about backroads, girls, drinking and trucks. Their 2012 single Cruise is the best-selling digital country song of all time in the United States as of January 2014 and it is the only country song to ever receive the Diamond Award - over 10 million copies sold. Florida Georgia Line was formed in 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee, in December 2011, they signed a publishing/ production/ management deal with Big Loud Mountain, Craig Wisemans, Joey Mois, and Kevin Chief Zaruks partnership. Their second EP, Itz Just What We Do, charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and they played on the 2012 Country Throwdown Tour, along with acts such as Josh Thompson, Corey Smith, Gary Allan, Justin Moore, and Rodney Atkins. They have also opened for Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Colt Ford, on July 16,2012, they signed with Republic Nashville, part of the Big Machine Label Group. They released their album, Anything Goes on October 14,2014. Both members of Florida Georgia Line grew up and first gained interest in music through church worship services and he began learning to play guitar then began writing music inspired by Christian rock group Casting Crowns. Tyler Hubbard, a native of Monroe, Georgia, was a worship leader who formed a hip hop group, Ingenious Circuit. The two had a myriad of musical interests growing up, Me and my friends rode trucks, listened to Garth Brooks, Alabama, Lil Wayne and Eminem, said Kelley. The duo met at Belmont University in 2008 through a worship group. They moved in one another and began several odd jobs to pay bills. While independent, they recorded and digitally distributed their first EP and they were discovered by Nickelback producer Joey Moi at a county fair, and the three began entering the studio together. Unlike typical country music sessions, the group spent days polishing songs, in terms of production, the band modeled their sound on bands such as Nickelback, Shinedown, and Three Days Grace, while Moi aimed for each song to resemble hair metal group Def Leppard in structure. Kelley likes to think of his career not as a career, Country music is always evolving and will continue to evolve, he told FORBES magazine. Florida Georgia Lines first EP, released December 14,2010, is a 6-song EP produced with Wesley Walker, all of the songs were written by either Hubbard or Hubbard and Kelley. The EP consists of the songs Youre Country, Now That Shes Gone, Man I Am Today, Never Let Her Go, Black Tears, the song Black Tears was also on Jason Aldeans 2012 album Night Train
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Anything Goes (Florida Georgia Line album)
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Anything Goes is the second studio album by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It was released on October 14,2014, by Republic Nashville, the release of the album was announced August 15 from Central Park in New York City on Good Morning America. The album was produced by Joey Moi and its first single, Dirt, became Florida Georgia Lines sixth number one hit when it peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Anything Goes has received mixed reviews from critics and he awarded the album 3 stars out of 5. The album debuted at one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 197,000 copies. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 1,2014, as of June 2015, the album has sold 858,000 copies in the US. In Canada, the album debuted at two on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 16,000 copies. The albums track listing was announced on August 15
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Cruise (song)
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Cruise is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It was released in August 2012 as the first single from their extended play Itz Just What We Do and it was written by group members Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard with Joey Moi, Chase Rice, and Jesse Rice. It is included on their first album for Republic Nashville, Heres to the Good Times, Cruise is the best-selling country digital song of all time in the United States as of January 2014. The song is considered the foremost example of the genre of music termed bro-country. The recording by Florida Georgia Line reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on its initial release, a couple of months later, a remix by rapper Nelly was released, and the song then re-entered the top 10. The song reached a peak of No.4 on the Hot 100 chart in its 34th week, the song also logged 24 weeks at No.1 on Hot Country Songs, longer than any other song in the charts 70-year history. The Nelly remix, produced by Jason Nevins, was released to iTunes on April 2,2013 and to pop radio on April 16,2013. The remix was played at the end of Nellys music video for Hey Porsche, in total, all versions of the songs have sold over 7 million in the US by September 2014. The song was written by the two member of Florida Georgia Line, Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard, together with Joey Moi, Chase Rice and Jesse Rice. According to Chase Rice, they were writing a different song, when Kelley started to strum a chord and hummed another melody and they decided to drop the song they were writing to write Cruise instead, which they finished in 45 minutes. The song is a mid-tempo in the key of B-flat major with a chord pattern of B♭-F-Gm7-E♭. It is about a woman that the male narrator wants to cruise with in his pick-up truck. Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the four stars out of five. Matt Bjorke of Roughstock also gave the song a favorable review, however, lyrically, he thought that the song is ass-backwards. Cruise is credited with the rise of bro-country, a trend in country music starting in 2013 that entails rock- and rap-influenced country by male artists. To Rosen, it exemplifies the genre of bro-country, music by and of the tatted, gym-toned and its themes of women and driving are noted by critics to typical of the genre of bro-country, with its perceived objectification of women the target of criticism. Some country purists also thought it too influenced by hip-hop, pop and rock to be country music, the music video was directed by Brian Lazzaro and premiered in August 2012. It was filmed outside Nashville, and featured the duo driving and performing against an American flag backdrop at a colorful paint party, Cruise debuted at No.54 on the U. S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of August 11,2012
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Billboard (magazine)
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Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries. It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events and it is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows, Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegens interest in 1900 for $500, in the 1900s, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows. It also created a service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the industry as the jukebox, phonograph. Many topics it covered were spun-off into different magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment so that it could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was passed down to his children and Hennegans children, until it was sold to investors in 1985. The first issue of Billboard was published in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1,1894 by William Donaldson, initially, it covered the advertising and bill posting industry and was called Billboard Advertising. At the time, billboards, posters and paper advertisements placed in public spaces were the means of advertising. Donaldson handled editorial and advertising, while Hennegan, who owned Hennegan Printing Co. managed magazine production, the first issues were just eight pages long. The paper had columns like The Bill Room Gossip and The Indefatigable, a department for agricultural fairs was established in 1896. The title was changed to The Billboard in 1897, after a brief departure over editorial differences, Donaldson purchased Hennegans interest in the business in 1900 for $500, to save it from bankruptcy. That May, Donaldson changed it from a monthly to a paper with a greater emphasis on breaking news. He improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London and he also re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment like fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville and burlesque shows. A section devoted to circuses was introduced in 1900, followed by more prominent coverage of events in 1901. Billboard also covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics and it had a stage gossip column covering the private lives of entertainers, a tent show section covering traveling shows and a sub-section called Freaks to order. According to The Seattle Times, Donaldson also published articles attacking censorship, praising productions exhibiting good taste
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This Is How We Roll
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This Is How We Roll is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line with fellow country music singer Luke Bryan. It is the single from Florida Georgia Lines debut studio album, Heres to the Good Times. Cole Swindell assisted the artists in writing the song, a remix, featuring Jason Derulo and Bryan was released on June 6,2014. The music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld and premiered in March 2014. This Is How We Roll, was released in November 25,2013. It reached number one on the Hot Country Songs chart for the ending of March 28,2014. It also peaked on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at number 15 for the ending of April 26,2014. After it was released to radio, the song received significant airplay to enter the Country Airplay chart at number 25 for the ending of March 1,2014. It continued climbing the chart and peaked at number 2 in May 2014, the song reached its first million sales mark in April 2014, and its second in September 2014. It was certified Platinum by the RIAA on May 1,2014, as of January 2015, the song has sold 2,276,000 copies in the US. The song is featured in the video game WWE 2K15, list of number-one country singles of 2014
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Sun Daze
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Sun Daze is a song recorded by American country music duo Florida Georgia Line. It is the single from their second studio album, Anything Goes. Thematically, the song is about a man who plans to participate in recreational activities, including flip cup, sexual intercourse. The group members told the magazine that “It still kinda bumps and it’s still got a guitar line and it’s got the whistles going. You can’t not shake your head to that song, it’s just a simple song, man. We just try to be transparent in the way we write. There’s nothing better than just kicking back, whatever ‘Sun Daze’ is for that person—staying home, making a drink, playing basketball, whatever it may be. The song received mixed to negative reviews from several critics, hannah Smith for Vinyl Mag says this song incredibly catchy in the worst way. There’s nothing wrong with party songs, but there comes a time when an artist needs to evaluate the direction their career is heading, no one wants to hear middle-aged people singing about getting laid and stoned, which this song addresses multiple times. Jen Swirsky of Country Music Chat gave the song a positive review, writing Love it or hate it. Perhaps witty on subjects that may still be a little too liberal for country music, Country Weekly reviewer Tammy Ragusa was more moderate, praising the reggae influences of the instrumentation while criticizing the lyrical content. She said that their attempts to establish themselves as bad boys, gratuitously dropping in overt references to getting laid. She also wrote that This is the kind of thing that sells and garners airplay, the single has been a commercial success for the duo, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and #1 on the Country Airplay chart. The song was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 29,2015 and as of April 2015, the music video was directed by Marc Klasfeld and premiered in October 2014. Footage from the 2014 installment of WWE Night of Champions is shown in the video, an event which Florida Georgia Line served as guest commentators for as a means of cross-promotion
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J. D. Souther
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John David Souther or J. D. Souther is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. He has written and co-written songs recorded by such as Linda Ronstadt. Souther was born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Amarillo, as a musician and songwriter, he was greatly influenced in his formative years by fellow Texas rock and roll icon, Roy Orbison. After moving to Los Angeles, California, in the late 1960s, he met musician and songwriter, Glenn Frey, Souther and Frey formed a folk duo called Longbranch Pennywhistle. Their lone album was released in 1970 on Jimmy Bowens Amos Records, after recording an eponymous solo album in 1972 Souther teamed up with Chris Hillman and Richie Furay to form the Souther Hillman Furay Band. The group released two albums, but creative tensions and lack of sales led to the bands demise. Souther is probably best known for his abilities, especially in the field of country rock. He co-wrote some of the biggest hits for the Eagles, including Best of My Love, Victim of Love, Heartache Tonight, and New Kid in Town. How Long, which appears on the Eagles Long Road Out of Eden, was written by Souther and he wrote Run Like a Thief which appeared on Home Plate by Bonnie Raitt in 1975. A collaboration with his old friend James Taylor called Her Town Too reached #11 on the Hot 100 and he wrote the song Wishing on Another Lucky Star, featured on the soundtrack of the movie Permanent Record. Souther co-wrote Doin Time For Bein Young, a song performed by James Intveld for the soundtrack of the 1990 Johnny Depp movie Cry-Baby, on October 14,2008, Souther released If the World Was You, his first new release in 25 years. In the fall of 2009, he released a follow up album entitled Rain - Live at the Belcourt Theatre, featuring a blend of old. On May 31,2011, Souther released Natural History, featuring new versions of his songs recorded by other artists, on October 9,2012, he released Midnight in Tokyo, an EP that was recorded live. On June 14,2013, Souther was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and called a principal architect of the Southern California sound, Souther played the character of John Dunaway in the third season of the television drama Thirtysomething and Ted in the film Postcards from the Edge. He appeared in the audiobook of Jimmy Buffetts A Salty Piece of Land, Souther played Jesse James in the television movie Purgatory in 1999 and Jeffrey Pommeroy in My Girl 2. Souther also appeared in the 2012 mystery thriller Deadline and he had a recurring role in the first season of country music drama series Nashville, which premiered in October 2012 and he reprised his role in a 2017 episode of the fifth season. Souther married Alexandra Sliwin in March 1969, but divorced in 1972 and he dated Linda Ronstadt and Stevie Nicks in the 1970s. Judee Sills song Jesus Was a Crossmaker was written for Souther, in December 2002, Souther moved from the Hollywood Hills, California, to Nashville, Tennessee
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Nash Country Weekly
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Nash Country Weekly was an American lifestyle weekly magazine about country artists and their music. It was in circulation between April 1994 and May 2016, the magazine was established in 1994. It focused on country music stars and events, and regularly featured exclusive interviews with recording artists, Country Weekly also cosponsored the CMT/TNN Country Weekly Music Awards, at the time the only nationally televised country music awards show that allowed fans to vote for the winners. In February 2009, Country Weekly reverted to a weekly magazine, the magazine also dropped subscriptions at that point, and changed its logo. The magazine was renamed Nash Country Weekly in June 2015, as a means of co-branding with Nash FM, Nash Country Weekly closed its print publication in April 2016
