Valley,” music and words w/photo of cowboy band.ġ935 Possibly the first country music magazineįounded: WLS Stand-By! Founded in early 1935.ġ939 Song Hits magazine has a monthly “WesternĮditor” (Tex Ritter in the Sep 1939 issue).ġ943 Billboard published a new feature: “Americanįolk Tunes and Tunesters: Cowboy Songs, Hillbilly Tunes, Spirituals, Etc.” Songs included the articles “Meet Billy Hill” and “Red River Songs and articles about country artists. In movies including Sons of the Saddle (1930).ġ935 New song-lyric magazines feature country Songs and Snatches” in The Bookman, early reviews of folk and “hillbilly”ġ930 Ken Maynard became the first singing cowboy Jimmie Rodgers discovered and recorded in Tennessee by Ralph Peer, “Big Sprague of Texas recorded theįirst cowboy song, “When the Work’s All Done This Fall.”ġ927 Bristol Recording Sessions: Carter Family and One of the first American country music radio programs and aġ925 Birth of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.ġ925 Carl T. Service to farmers and subsequently sold it to the Prairie Farmerġ924 WLS began running the National Barn Dance,

(discovered by Ralph Peer on Okeh field trip looking for race music).ġ924 Sears founded the Chicago-based WLS as a

I put this timeline together as I researched my post series, “ Reflected Glory: The Birth of Country Music Journalism, 1930s-1950s“:ġ600’s First American folk music during the colonial period: Appalachian music and other regional styles spin off what would evolve into “country music.”ġ820 First cowboys and cowboy music as work songs.ġ920 First generation “hillbilly” musicians: firstġ922 First radio station to broadcast countryġ923 First commercially successful record ofĪppalachian folk music (called “hillbilly” music): Fiddlin’ John Carson

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