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The History of Country Music

Narrated by Hairl Hensley

2 CD’s - Running Time 1hr 46 minutes

70 years Here in two audio CD's, is the history of country music, a fascinating story told by one of radio's premier announcers, Hairl Hensley.

Country music grew up in the mountains of Appalachia, in the cotton fields of Georgia and Mississippi, the car and truck plants in Detroit and in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. It was… and… is the music of the people.

Hairl Hensley tells of Jimmy Rodgers and the Carter Family; of Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb, whose music played in honky tonks… and Roy Acuff whose music was heard in Madison Square Garden; of the Girls of the Golden West, but also of Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire.

It all started on June 14, 1923, when Fiddlin' John Carson played "The Old Hen Cackled…"

ISBN# 1893537-14-5
Code: RT-112
Price: $15.95

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