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Thread #127734 Message #2853087
Posted By: michaelr
01-Mar-10 - 11:03 AM
Thread Name: American Folk / Country: Dividing Lines
Subject: RE: American Folk / Country: Dividing Lines
What is Country and Western?
That would be the marriage of old style (folk-derived) country music with the jazz-influenced, harmonically more sophisticated Western Swing (think Bob Wills).