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Exploring the World of Country Music

Test your knowledge of country music with this engaging quiz that covers key artists, songs, and influences in the genre.

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1 1 country hit since ________ in 1983.

2 Leading practitioners of this style were ________, Merle Haggard, Tommy Collins, Dwight Yoakam and Wynn Stewart, each of whom had his own style.

3 High in US, ________ and Canada Medium in United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand

4 Influenced by one-time West Coast residents ________ and Lefty Frizzell, by 1966 it was known as the Bakersfield sound.

5 Four country songs topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the 1980s: "Lady" by ________, which was the No.

6 In the same year, Hootie & the Blowfish vocalist ________ released his second solo album and country music debut, Learn to Live.

7 In 2005, country singer Carrie Underwood rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of ________ and became a multi-platinum selling recording artist and a multiple Grammy Award winner.

8 This influence was so great that ________ was quoted as saying "The music has gotten pretty bad, I think.

9 With his debut on the national country music scene in 1989, singer and songwriter ________ would usher in a new sound that would define much of country music for the 1990s and beyond.

10 Some of the popular singing cowboys from the era were ________, the Sons of the Pioneers and Roy Rogers.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences.
  • Tom Brumley's performance on "Together Again" for Buck Owens was called "one of the finest steel guitar solos in the history of country music".
  • The New York Times said Paul Hemphill's first book The Nashville Sound was "generally regarded as one of the best books on country music ever written".
  • Still Restless, a 2004 album by country band Restless Heart, was their first album of all-new material in fourteen years.
  • Smokey Mayfield, a ranch supervisor in the Texas Panhandle, once played the fiddle as a warmup act for country performer Tennessee Ernie Ford.
  • Ronnie Thompson, the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century, also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music.
  • American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline.
  • American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain.
  • Charlie Bowman was a major influence on the distinctive fiddle sound that helped shape and develop early country music in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Gord Bamford, a country music singer, was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival.
  • a critic reviewing country music artist Ronnie Milsap's 2006 album My Life observed that Milsap's voice remained "virtually unchanged" since his debut in the early 1970s.
  • after performing the theme to the 1963 film Hud, country music singer Darrell McCall decided to take up acting, appearing in three films during the 1960s.
  • singer-songwriter Gillian Welch met her musical partner David Rawlings at a successful audition for the only country band at Berklee College of Music.
  • the country music quartet The Oak Ridge Boys reached their highest ranking in 26 years on the Billboard 200 with the release of their 2009 album The Boys Are Back.
  • the Shreveport deejay Barney Cannon was particularly knowledgeable about the history of country music, his radio station KWKH-AM, and the former Louisiana Hayride.
  • with his number one single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", Leon Ashley became the first country music artist to write, record, release, distribute and publish his own material.
  • in 1960, country music artist Claude Gray bought the song "Family Bible" from Willie Nelson for $100.
  • despite a 26 minute length, the 1965 album The Return of Roger Miller won the Grammy award for best country album, and five additional Grammys for its track "King of the Road".
  • after seeing The Beverly Hillbillies and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In atop the Nielsen ratings, John Aylesworth created Hee Haw as a country variety show to combine the best of both genres.
  • at least one song written by Sonny Throckmorton was on the country music charts for almost every week between 1976 and 1980.
  • at the 25th CMA Music Festival in 1996, country music artist Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without taking a single break.
  • radio station WLWI in Montgomery, Alabama, founded in 1930 as WSFA, gave country music legend Hank Williams his start as a professional musician.
  • psychedelic rock group Circus Maximus was the launching point for the career of country musician Jerry Jeff Walker.
  • country music singer Buck Owens' son Buddy Alan is also a country music singer.
  • country music singer David Nail's single "Turning Home" was co-written by Kenny Chesney.
  • country music singer George Strait discovered his backup band, the Ace in the Hole, after responding to a flyer posted around the Southwest Texas State University campus.
  • country music singer Ty Herndon's grandmother Myrtle hosted a Gospel music radio show on WPRN and WPRN-FM in Alabama for more than 40 years.
  • country music singer Alan Jackson still likes bologna.
  • country music performer Roger Miller included his own recordings of two songs that he had written for Jim Reeves in the 1950s, on his 1966 album Words and Music.
  • Country-comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee.
  • country music singer-songwriter Roger Miller's third studio album, The 3rd Time Around, was the only record of his career to top the Country Album charts.
  • country music artist and Dead Reckoning Records co-founder Tammy Rogers was once a backing musician for Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood.
  • country music singer Colt Ford is a former professional golfer.
  • country music singer Darrell Clanton's single "I Forgot That I Don't Live Here Anymore" was boycotted by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
  • country singer Johnny Cash (pictured) covered the song "Johnny 99" by Bruce Springsteen and made it the title song of the album it appeared on.
  • country singer Philip Claypool's greatest chart success was a cover version of Bad Company's "Feel Like Makin' Love".
  • Mike Reid was a linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals before becoming a country music singer and releasing the single "Walk on Faith".
  • Norwegian evangelical preacher Aril Edvardsen performed in a country music band in his youth.
  • country musician Johnny Sea's spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire's protest song, "Eve of Destruction", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award.
  • country music songwriter Tim Nichols once worked in a factory, manufacturing buckets for KFC.
  • country music singer Easton Corbin's debut single "A Little More Country Than That" was co-written by Rory Lee Feek of Joey + Rory.
  • country music singer Jeremy McComb was once a tour manager for comedian Larry the Cable Guy.
  • country music songwriter Chris Waters, who has written songs for Tim McGraw, Terri Clark and Rhett Akins, is the older brother of singer Holly Dunn.
  • Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!".
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