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Country rock

For the geological term, see Country rock (geology)
Country rock (geology)

Country rock is a Geology term meaning the rock native to an area. It is similar and in many cases interchangeable with the terms basement and wall rocks....
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Country rock is a music

Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al genre

Genre

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other Art#Art forms or utterance....
formed from the fusion of rock

Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
with country music

Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
, with its country origins being initially referenced to the rockabilly

Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, and emerged in the early 1950s.The term rockabilly is a Portmanteau word of rock and hillbilly, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style's development....
music of the 1950s.

While such cross-pollination has occurred throughout the history of both genres, the term is generally used to refer to the wave of rock musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s who began to record country flavored records.

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Country rock is a music

Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
al genre

Genre

Rock music

Country music

Rockabilly

The Dillards

The Dillards are an American bluegrass music band from Salem, Missouri, consisting of Douglas "Doug" Dillard , Rodney "Rod" Dillard , Dean Webb , and Mitch Jayne ...
, The Byrds

The Byrds

The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
, Gene Clark

Gene Clark

Gene Clark, born Harold Eugene Clark was an United States singer-songwriter, and one of the founding members of the folk-rock group The Byrds....
, Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist. Parsons was a member of the International Submarine Band, The Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers....
, Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young Order of Manitoba is a Canada singer-songwriter, musician and film director.Young's work is characterized by deeply personal lyrics, distinctive guitar work, and signature falsetto tenor singing voice....
, Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith in Harris County, Texas, is an United States musician, songwriter, actor, record producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, perhaps best known for his time in the musical group The Monkees and on the TV series of the same name....
, The Grateful Dead, The Band

The Band

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
, Bob Dylan, Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
, Moby Grape

Moby Grape

Moby Grape is an United States rock music group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country music, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music....
and Area Code 615. These musicians grew up listening to early country and rockabilly music on the radio in the 1950s, and were also influenced by the emergence of rock & roll in the 1960s. The Beatles, particularly in their earlier recordings, were also recording songs with a strong country influence, such as "I'll Cry Instead

I'll Cry Instead

"I'll Cry Instead" is a John Lennon composition credited to Lennon/McCartney, and recorded by The Beatles for the soundtrack to their film A Hard Day's Night ....
", "I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party" is a song by The Beatles, written by John Lennon but credited to Lennon/McCartney. It was released on the album Beatles for Sale in the United Kingdom in 1964 in music and on the album Beatles VI in the United States in 1965 in music....
", "I'm A Loser

I'm a Loser

"I'm a Loser" is a song by The Beatles originally released on Beatles for Sale .The song's refrain sings, "I'm a loser, and I've lost someone who's near to me....
", "Baby's In Black

Baby's in Black

"Baby's in Black" is a song by The Beatles, co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released in the United Kingdom on Beatles for Sale and in the United States on Beatles '65....
" and Carl Perkin's

Carl Perkins

Carl Lee Perkins was an United States of America pioneer of rockabilly music who recorded most notably at Sun Records Studio in Memphis, Tennessee beginning in 1954....
"Matchbox

Matchbox (song)

"Matchbox" is a rock and roll and rockabilly song written by Carl Perkins and first recorded by him at Sun Records in December of 1956 and released on February 11, 1957 as a 45 single on Sun Records....
".

The term is also used for those who came after them, such as The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers was an early country rock band, best known for its influential debut album, 1969's The Gilded Palace of Sin. Although the group is most often mentioned in connection with country rock legends Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman, the group underwent many personnel changes....
, First National Band

First National Band

The First National Band was a short lived collaborative band led by former The Monkees Michael Nesmith which issued three albums in the country rock genre in 1970-1971....
, The Eagles, Little Feat

Little Feat

Little Feat is an United States Rock music formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboard player Bill Payne in 1969 in music in Los Angeles, California....
, Linda Ronstadt

Linda Ronstadt

Maria Linda Ronstadt , known as Linda Ronstadt, is an United States popular music Singing and entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety of genres have resonated with the general public over the course of her four-decade career....
, Poco

Poco

Poco is an United States country rock band originally formed by Richie Furay and Jim Messina following the demise of Buffalo Springfield in 1968....
, Pure Prairie League

Pure Prairie League

Pure Prairie League is an United states country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio, Ohio with Craig Fuller, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call....
, The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers is an United States rock and roll musical group. They have sold over 22 million albums in the United States from the 1970s to the present....
, The Marshall Tucker Band and Barefoot Jerry

Barefoot Jerry

Barefoot Jerry was a Nashville, Tennessee-based Southern rock and progressive Country band active from 1971-1977. It was composed of area studio musicians under the tutelage of Wayne Moss, lead guitarist of Area Code 615 , and other 615 alumni....
, as well as many musicians that they influenced, such as those in the alternative country

Alternative country

Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of country music genre that tend to differ from Mainstream or pop music country music....
movement.

Country rock

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