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There
are many kinds of music in the world, pop music, classical music, folk music
and so on. Do you know country music? It's a traditional kind of music from the
southern states of America. I like it very much! It will take me away for a
while after I am tired. The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and
fields.
Country
music usually talks of everyday life and feeling. It's like the spirit of
America, easy to understand, slow and simple.
Country
music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of
American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about
love, crops or death. The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in
country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family
parties.
But
it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the
radio, and they made them into records.
When
people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took
their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across
America.
John
Denver was one of America's most famous country singers in the 1970s. His song
Take Me Home, Country Roads is well-known and people still play it today.
