54 relations: Academy Awards, Academy of Country Music, Answer song, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Billboard Hot 100, Billy Bob's Texas, Billy Walker (musician), Bob Wills, Capitol Records, Country music, Country Music Association, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Crazy Heart, Dot Records, Ernest Tubb, Fort Worth, Texas, G.I. Bill, George Jones, Guitar, Hank Williams, HighTone Records, Honky-tonk, Hospice, Hot Country Songs, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, J. D. "Jay" Miller, Jeff Bridges, Junior Brown, Keller, Texas, Ken Nelson (United States record producer), Kitty Wells, List of best-selling music artists, List of Country Music Hall of Fame inductees, List of country music performers, Lung cancer, MCA Records, Merle Travis, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Hills, Scott Cooper (director), Seven Decades, Steel guitar, Tex Ritter, The Wild Side of Life, Thomas Cobb (author), United States, United States Navy, Waco, Texas, Wanda Jackson, ..., Warner Bros. Records, Western swing, Wildwood Flower, World War II. Expand index (4 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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Academy of Country Music
The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California as the Country & Western Music Academy.
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Answer song
An answer song, response song or answer record, is, as the name suggests, a song (usually a recorded track) made in answer to a previous song, normally by another artist.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Billy Bob's Texas
Billy Bob's Texas is a country & western nightclub located in the Fort Worth Stockyards, Texas, United States.
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Billy Walker (musician)
William Marvin Walker (January 14, 1929 – May 21, 2006) was an American country music singer and guitarist best known for his 1962 hit, "Charlie's Shoes".
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Bob Wills
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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Country music
Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
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Country Music Association
The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.
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Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart is a 2009 American drama film, written and directed by Scott Cooper and based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb.
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Dot Records
Dot Records is an American record label founded by Randy Wood that was active between 1950 and 1979.
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Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music.
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Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth is the 15th-largest city in the United States and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas.
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G.I. Bill
The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).
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George Jones
George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American musician, singer and songwriter.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Hank Williams
Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.
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HighTone Records
HighTone Records was an American independent record label based in Oakland, California, United States.
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Honky-tonk
A honky-tonk (also called honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is both a bar that provides country music for the entertainment of its patrons and the style of music played in such establishments.
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Hospice
Hospice care is a type of care and philosophy of care that focuses on the palliation of a chronically ill, terminally ill or seriously ill patient's pain and symptoms, and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs.
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Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
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It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" is a 1952 country song written by J. D. "Jay" Miller, and originally recorded by Kitty Wells.
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J. D. "Jay" Miller
Joseph Denton "Jay" Miller (May 5, 1922 – March 23, 1996) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter from Crowley, Louisiana, whose Cajun, swamp blues, and swamp pop recordings influenced American popular culture.
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Jeff Bridges
Jeffrey Leon Bridges (born December 4, 1949) is an American actor, singer, and producer.
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Junior Brown
Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer.
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Keller, Texas
Keller is a suburban city in Tarrant County, Texas in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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Ken Nelson (United States record producer)
Kenneth F. "Ken" Nelson (January 19, 1911 – January 6, 2008) was an American record producer and A & R man for Capitol Records.
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Kitty Wells
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer.
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List of best-selling music artists
This list includes music artists with claims of 75 million or more record sales.
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List of Country Music Hall of Fame inductees
This is a list of inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Number of Inductees (counting groups as a single inductee): 136.
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List of country music performers
This is an alphabetical list of notable country music performers.
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Lung cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung.
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MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group (now Universal Music Group), which the label was part of until its dissolution in 2003.
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Merle Travis
Merle Robert Travis (November 17, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky.
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Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame was established in 1970 by the Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc.
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Oklahoma Hills
"Oklahoma Hills" is a song written by Woody Guthrie.
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Scott Cooper (director)
Scott Cooper (born April 20, 1970) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
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Seven Decades
Seven Decades is an album by Hank Thompson released on July 18, 2000.
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Steel guitar
Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument.
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Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John and grandsons Jason and Tyler).
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The Wild Side of Life
"The Wild Side of Life" is a song made famous by country music singer Hank Thompson.
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Thomas Cobb (author)
Thomas Cobb is an American novelist and author of the 1987 novel Crazy Heart which was adapted into the 2010 Academy Award winning 2009 film Crazy Heart.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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Waco, Texas
Waco is a city in central Texas and is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.
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Wanda Jackson
Wanda Lavonne Jackson (born October 20, 1937) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock-and-roll artist.
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Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros.
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Western swing
Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.
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Wildwood Flower
"Wildwood Flower" (or "The Wildwood Flower") is an American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Thompson_(musician)