The FORGOTTEN Creators of Country Music

Country music, often seen as a white rural American music genre, has roots deeply woven into various musical traditions, many of which were significantly shaped by African-Americans. When country music started as a genre, it found inspiration from a wide range of musical styles, including many Black ones. This African-American influence is prominent within numerous aspects of this music genre, starting from the choice of instruments and songs to the vocal and instrumental techniques.
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[@DanFreeman723]

My Dad Played Country & Blues all his life. He leaned toward country though. He grew up on it & could play hundreds of songs. He swore all the greats were black & not white in his day.

[@tesmith47]

Remember what kwame Nkruma said, it is simply a matter of power. The powerful take whatever they want, and then LIE ABOUT IT!!😮

[@yeehaw3792]

Jimmy Rogers, Hank williams, Bob Wills, Chet Atkins were all kings. Stop acting like we stole EVERYTHING.

[@russelllarkin5665]

Ask them who were their teachers!!!! I will wait!!!!

[@SkullKnight-rd5dj]

​@@yeehaw3792 but you did though look at everywhere you go you tell everyone to go back where they come from but you keep moving to those peoples lands yawl only know how to take

[@yeehaw3792]

@@SkullKnight-rd5dj Bro you are speaking English right now. Sit down.

[@user-vy2gw4uv1o]

You also forgot that the Banjo was made in Africa out of a need to pass along messages to others. The drums 🥁 were outlawed in Africa and in America because whites couldn't interpret them. The Banjo is a drum 🥁 with strings . You play the Banjo and flip it over it becomes a drum 🥁 which became a clever way to send messages.

[@pay_attn]

yeee haaaw, we are EVERYTHING

[@petegarrido5406]

Yet your culture has been eviscerated by the globalists .

[@kinoakir9085]

Hating on Caucasian people while using all their stuff! Television, movies, shoes, cars, sports, modern clothes, video games, cell phones, internet, computers, sports, planes, money, even the English language, even having a job, anything that has to do with capitalism and MANY other things. Music wouldn't even exist without Caucasian folks.

[@pay_attn]

@@kinoakir9085 Your level of delusion should be studied

[@kinoakir9085]

@@pay_attn Those are facts. Just look them up!

[@DaTruthTeller504]

We Black-Lalwïźyànans here in Louisiana also created the Źydéçò music culture genre which is our version of Country music here in Louisiana.

[@donaldewert2332]

Most people have now heard of Linda Martell but there was another black female country singer named Ruby Falls who started out in Milwaukee. While in Nashville she had four records chart on Billboard country charts.

[@xnx2158]

I didn't know any of this! I don't listen to country music so i never thought to look into it. Thank you for covering this topic, love your channel!

[@GodofPainBelial]

Thank you for sharing this awesome history and information.

[@ChristopherGronlund]

As always, a great episode. I worked with a woman who loved country music, but avoided going to [especially smaller] country shows down here in Texas. She knew she wasn't welcome in those clubs. She grew up singing gospel, had a lovely voice, and dreamed of singing country music. (I was fortunate to hear her sing.) It's criminal how many voices with more of a claim to shaping modern music have never been heard.

[@eddedream8586]

Hootie and the Blowfish came to my elementary school when I was in 3rd grade! This was in the 90s ive always lived blk men in country music ever since then!

[@rondmc44]

And, all we have left is Southern Soul, which is dying slowly outsde of Alabama, Mississippi , parts of Louisiana and Texas. I'm from South Carolina where what we got is Southern rock, and Trap Hip-Hop...

[@994lifewolmts]

Well done

[@CaringIndiv02]

That was the heart of the matter, pushing and discrediting, and railroading. They pushed Mr. Bailey for a mascot. The mentality. Then in turn saying him 'lazy'. Wow.😮 Talking about twisting.

[@cheriebrown5246]

I am a huge fan of Country Gospel Music. I’m a cowgirl at heart. Bout to put on my cowgirl boots and my Country Music playlist.

[@QueenLucifer777]

I really enjoyed this video as you did an excellent job in research.

[@music19151]

SALUTE !!! B1

[@artbuck7709]

Outstanding…

[@neilsoulman]

Excellent breakdown, only would not be complete without mentioning, soul singer, song writer turned country artist "OB McClinton" dubbed the chocolate cowboy. 1960s-80s, he was one of the most recognizable artists other then Charlie Pride during that season when the genre was still called country & Western, #OBMClintonFoundation

[@susanwilliams4953]

Well done!

[@napalmspears3016]

Funny how history repeats itself

[@Soufside_Slim]

Please do the Black American origins of Latin Jazz/Salsa next

[@pajewa]

Why is it called Latin Jazz, Jazz came first.

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

I learned that Latin Jazz/Salsa is a white washing of what was originally called Afro Cuban Jazz and one of it's pioneers Mario Bauza was outspoken in his day in calling out the white executives and white latino artists who plagiarized his style that was birthed in Harlem during the 1920s/1930s. There was also Frank Grillo aka Machito and percussionist Chano Pozo who learned Jazz and played with the greats like Dizzy Gillespie . It's a different genre but still the same old story.

[@pajewa]

@@thedrunkmonkshow I heard that also.

[@DaTruthTeller504]

@Soufside_Slim W.t.f. is Latin Jazz? Jazz was created here in New Orléans by us Black-LaLwizyànans rooted here in Louisiana. Jazz don't have anything to do with no Latin culture nor with no Lie-tinos.

[@DaTruthTeller504]

​@@thedrunkmonkshowW.t.f. is Latin Jazz? Jazz was created here in New Orléans by us Black-LaLwizyànans rooted here in Louisiana. Jazz don't have anything to do with no Latin culture nor with no Lie-tinos.

[@user-dj4os2up8c]

Tell'em, kiddo!

[@dana.j9062]

Just like how they colonized nations, the same thing happened with music ,culture, food...etc

[@kinoakir9085]

Lmao, everything you do is white! Music wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for white people. Jimmie Rogers created country music!

[@kinoakir9085]

Everything you do is white! Everything! The world is living in white culture. The white life has become the way of life all around the world 💪

[@kinoakir9085]

Jimmie Rogers invented country music! Music wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for white people.

[@yeehaw3792]

You speak our language and wear our clothes and use OUR inventions

[@kyleolin3566]

We have more in common than differences. Country is both black and white, utilizing banjo and black influences, as well as guitar, viola based instruments, piano, and white influences. It brought us together. Don’t let social conditioning divide us.

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

SUGGEST DO A SPECIAL MINI-DOC ON STONEY EDWARDS. He is virtually 4gotten today - although released half a dozen lps on CBS, mid to late 70s. Not many pic vids on Yt. He is my idols, I m white. He even covered ARE YIU SURE HANK DONE IT THIS WAY ...How ironical

[@cali-zclassicTVreviews5722]

it's not our influence it is what we created period!

[@kinoakir9085]

Lol, no. Jimmie Rogers.

[@monilaninetynine3811]

Black people are music

[@kinoakir9085]

Music wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for white people.

[@kinoakir9085]

Hating on Caucasian people while using all their stuff! Television, movies, shoes, cars, sports, modern clothes, video games, cell phones, internet, computers, sports, planes, money, even the English language, even having a job, anything that has to do with capitalism and MANY other things. Music wouldn't even exist without Caucasian folks.

[@rondmc44]

Thank you Charley, Darius, Ray, Beyonce and (ahem) Lionel......

[@BjtheLawyer_]

Black American culture is American culture. We created the food, the fashion trends, the music, popularized & dominated sports, inventions, & other art forms!

[@jaygold4467]

You invented nothing. Literally everything you have was invented by white people. Got modern plumbing?

[@jaygold4467]

Literally everything that black people have was invented by the white man. Facts.

[@raanangeberer1903]

But country music also takes a lot from traditional Irish and English folk music.

[@thanksmr.obvious6427]

lol inventions?? loool

[@BjtheLawyer_]

@@thanksmr.obvious6427 yeah it’s a lot of inventions that we weren’t taught in school. Just google Black American inventions & it’s there. Really easy to look up! We have made great contributions to American society!

[@deemcghee-piepie3089]

you should hear black bluegrass, I miss that not here anymore

[@BladeStar-uq6xe]

African Americans created pretty much Every type of Music! They created Swing, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Country, and Rock and Roll! All of it was started by Black artists! We wouldn't have music if it wasn't for the Great Black artists!

[@kinoakir9085]

Lmao, false. Music wouldn't exist if it wasn't for white people!

[@kinoakir9085]

Hating on Caucasian people while using all their stuff! Television, movies, shoes, cars, sports, modern clothes, video games, cell phones, internet, computers, sports, planes, money, even the English language, even having a job, anything that has to do with capitalism and MANY other things. Music wouldn't even exist without Caucasian folks.

[@johnhogan9114]

​@@kinoakir9085cell phones and the Internet was created by blacks.please enlighten me on if it wasn't for whites we wouldn't have music

[@MrMonopolistic]

#NeelyFullerJr

[@carollewis2174]

I love your channel. Excellent Presentation. I love your storytelling and research. We, Black People are a Great and Brilliant People. Yes. We Black People are the soul, innovation, and creation of all segments of American society,and the world . All origins---are from Black people - music-the arts, sports, engineering, architecture, mathematics, science, politics, theology, law, military, the environment, civil rights. Our contributions, are unlimited and ongoing----our branches, reach out and touch everybody globally.🎉 I love our history.

[@patrickalther-xc6rg]

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[@blade8989]

Vghhh

[@tawnyarhorer5017]

'promo sm' 🤗

[@JosephKeenanisme]

Edward Phillips is a Blues musician with a channel here on You Tube. He'll not only play a song but a lot of times give a bit of history on the song or one of the people associated with it. Not plugging intentionally plugging his stuff but there's at least enough blues songs out there to make a country blues album. A bunch of rich english rock stars made money off the songs of a bunch of blues guys that most people have never heard of :(. I'm white and I can tell you that country music is racist as shit. You have to be blind, deaf, and lobotomized not to see that blatant history.

[@rgordon9511]

This is not right....her black hair is gone, her skin color has gotten lighter & lighter. She is sending the message, Black, Get Back.......

[@patrickalther-xc6rg]

John Jackson from Rappahannock County, Virginia. Labeled ablues singer but he justas

[@reds8152]

Music has no color. Just notes 🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@michaelwood8071]

Music is old. It’s as old as us. Easily 10,000 years old. Country music traces its roots to all cultures. Black, white, Asian. Because after a hard day of working in the field people would eat and relax in the evening, stories would be told and they would be more easily remembered if set to music. Might be a banjo, drums, fiddle or wind instruments. The stories were about hardship, pain and loss but also hope, triumph and joy.

[@warrenlewis3977]

Stop lying, Country music does NOT trace it's origins to ALL cultures. It's a Black creation just like ALL OTHER American music genres.

[@mclametta9873]

As I see it, Country music also largely drew influence from folk tunes played by Irish, Scottish etc immigrants. Just listen to melody patterns of Irish folk and compare that with folk played in the American territory. Compare e.g. Salt Creek and any Bluegrass tune with an Irish Reel.

[@michaelwood8071]

@@warrenlewis3977 if that’s the case then tell me why Kentucky bluegrass and Appalachian mountain music sound like scotch Irish reels. It’s because they derive from there and yes they are just as much a part of country or western music as anything else.

[@warrenlewis3977]

@@michaelwood8071 Nobody listens to Bluegrass or Appalachian mountain music. You can have it.

[@lonewolftrucker99ky90]

All country music is white blues

[@williammorrill946]

Only "Black Roots" I see in Country Music are attached to the bleached-blonde singers' hair.

[@shawtyred1511]

???

[@michaelallen8112]

African (Hamited?? More like Israelites people. We are not ,Hamites

[@paulgentile1024]

Not

[@leilda1651]

Lol country music wasn't invented by black people rock and roll was country was invented by man name jammie rogers they are Africa roots in country music but lot came from the irish in the scottish

[@kinoakir9085]

Music wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for white people.

[@neilsoulman]

You werent listening, he mentions the singing breakman "Jimmie Rodgers, Memphis Yodel and also his Colaberation with Louie Armstrong on Yodel #9

[@leilda1651]

@neilsoulman ok and Louie Armstrong wasn't country he was jazz.

[@kinoakir9085]

Everything they do is white. Music wouldn't even exist without white people.

[@kinoakir9085]

@@leilda1651 Everything they do is white! Music wouldn't even exist without white people.

[@tararobinson6023]

That banjo is American made. An AFRICAN Banjo has NOTHING to do with Black American music...period

[@MarieJones-eb7bi]

Another I*norant bw

[@tararobinson6023]

@@MarieJones-eb7bi 😘

[@MarieJones-eb7bi]

@@tararobinson6023 dito❤️

[@eddedream8586]

When Africans were stolen and made slaves in America I'm pretty sure they still knew how to play the instrument and passed it down for generations 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@neilsoulman]

The American Banjo was invented by Afro-Caribean slaves in the 18th century, it was modeled after the Akonting, an African instrument formed from a hollowed out gourd, the info is well noted and highly documented, why are you in denial?

[@briandillon8041]

Stop saying whiteness.