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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 is simple music. It talks of everyday life and feelings. It's the spirit of America, easy to understand, slow and basic.
Country is a traditional kind of music from the southern states of America. It was the folk music of the American countryside. Many of the songs tell about the lives of farmers. They talk about love, crops or death.
Rurallife 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 songTakeMeHome,CountryRoadsis wellknown and people still play it today.
