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Are you tired after studying hard?American
country music will take you away for a while. The guitars and songs will take
you to mountains and fields there.
Country music talks about everyday life and
feelings. It's the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and basic.
Country music developed in the Southern
United States. It was the folk music of the American countryside. Many of the
songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops(庄稼) or
death.
Rural life can be hard, so the words
are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it
became more popular. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and
they made them into records.
When
people 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 wellknown
and people still play it today.