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Lee Hazlewood - Mother Country Music

The end of Prohibition in 1933 forced many musicians out of the illegal drinking clubs and into the open. Jazz adapted its style for wider appeal, tailoring itself to the dance hall in the form of big bands and swing. Bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Paul Whiteman led the change.

R&B, characterised by the rolling guitar rhythms... became big business in the US in the early 1950s. Country music also became increasingly commercial... A mixture of black rhythm and blues and white country music produced the dominant style of the new decade, rock 'n roll.

The regular beat and youth targeted lyrics appealed to teenagers, and the first music charts, which appeared in the US in the late 1940s and in Britain in 1952, confirmed the genre’s popularity... The evolution of music, Blues, jazz and the rise of popular music.


Lee Hazlewood - Mother Country Music
  • Composed by: Joe Nixon
  • Vocals by: Lee Hazlewood
  • Genre: Pop

"Lee Hazlewood's collaborations with Sinatra as well as his solo output in the late 1960s and early 1970s have been praised as the sound often described as cowboy psychedelia or saccharine underground."

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