I know Garth Brooks and Shania Twain were popular in the '90s. I want to know when the country music's rise in popularity began and who started it.
2007-01-27 01:26:29 · 15 answers · asked by TLP 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Depends on when you are talking about...There are legends like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn who have been popular for decades...also, Kenny Rogers...and today, yes Garth Brooks and Shania Twain have most to do with it...
2007-01-28 04:30:11 · answer #1 · answered by Terry C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Country music has always been popular, The people who do not like country wouldn't know it till they come across a song that seems to make sense to them. Then all of a sudden they start wondering "when did country music gain popularity?" The fact is country music has had some of the best musicians in the world. George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Porter Wagoner,Little Jimmy Dickens, Merle Haggard, Waylon & Willie< Garth Brooks,George Strait etc etc...Country music will always be popular for the simple reason their are so many new acts that come in every year. I think for those that don't like country, or say that country put's them to sleep... They should take some time and actually listen to a song instead of hearing it...They will find country music is as good if not better than most other.
2007-01-27 09:44:45 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it started off with the Urban Cowboy craze in the early 1980's. The theme of my high school graduating class (1982) was "I was country when country wasn't cool." That had been a song the year before by Barbara Mandrell. It made me mad that they claimed that, because I was. They weren't. They were "country" only because it was cool at the time. I was the one who used to get made fun of for liking country, and now all of a sudden it's in, and the popular crowd is acting as if they liked it all along. Puh-leeze.
2007-01-27 09:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by cruztacean1964 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's always been big around here. It just depends on where you live and who you hang around with. Garth Brooks RULES!!!!
2007-01-28 21:00:53 · answer #4 · answered by ♫♪music dreamer♪♫ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the South it has always been popular, Then it evolved slowly in to what we laughingly call pop country
2007-01-27 09:49:15 · answer #5 · answered by Elaine814 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot of it was american idol, people singing country songs and likeing them, also alot more popular radio stations started playing country songs, like carrie underwood of dixie chicks and raskel flatts, also alot of movies like to use country music in there soundtracks cuz you can get a wide varityof songs form country
2007-01-27 09:35:53 · answer #6 · answered by italyguitarchick 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i guess keith urban and carrie underwood really rose the popularity level of country music. last year the rascal flats did pretty good too
2007-01-27 09:31:01 · answer #7 · answered by OMG_itz_YoU!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the sound of it started rocking up a little; bands like Alabama started that.
2007-01-27 09:37:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ever since male country singers started to wear tight jeans and female country singers started to look hotter then hell and....eve since they went from boring country to the newer poppy sound that is called pop country.
2007-01-27 09:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by PNUT 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's actually a very old genre so i wouldn't be suprised if it was popular in maybe like, the late 1800's
2007-01-27 09:36:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋