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Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.
Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong
I'm country to the bone.
They'd played "Sweet Home, Alabama" so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music ... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.
I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.
I grew up on country radio. You know I'm a sucker for that 'we got no money but we got love' crap.
The beer and the wurst were wonderful, but I was dying to be back in the South, where the livin' was easy, where the fish were jumpin', where the cotton grew high.
I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]
I've spent a lifetime in love with country music.
Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
Well, we play Country music; we're just not sure what country it is.
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.
Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
I'm a Southern girl.
Even though I know it's wrong, you turned my life into a country song and I keep playin' it, on repeat.
Melancholy, I repeated. I liked the way it sounded, like there was music hidden somewhere inside it. Kate Di Camillo, Because of Winn Dixie
I was raised in South Alabama in the woods, y'know? I'm country.
I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.
'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.
He was singing a hillbilly song that sounded half like a love song and half like a hymn.
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River ... And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
A region where the men love their women one beat shy of a heart attack. A corner of the world proving there are some things hotter in the South than the weather.
No such thing as a Dixiecrat.
I'm a member of a country club, country music is what I love.
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.
I've never turned my back on country music.
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
The South: Three-wheeled Piggly Wiggly shopping carts, grease-caked engine blocks, baby strollers with shredded black hoods, Soviet rocket parts, human skulls on spikes and orange-eyed Rottweilers on heavy chains breathing fire...
I am a country boy at heart.
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger.
- The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism
The South, to me, is fried chicken and catfish caviar
that's grits
and good-looking women.
I do love country music.
I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.
The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.
I'm not a country picker, really - I like a nice, beefy, raunchy sort of sound.
In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.
I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.
I grew up in the 1930s Great Depression when many families struggled to make ends meet, and in an area where old-fashioned country gospel music was popular. Later, as an adult with a more mature outlook on Christianity, I realized that a lot of that music was rather shallow.
I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
You might be a redneck if you're moved to tears every time you hear Dolly Parton singing I Will Always Love You.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.
I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.
I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.
Yes, I'm a real southern boy.
Doing a thing call the Hillbilly Rock, some say it came from Elvis down in Tennessee.
Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.
I'm a country girl; I like country music. That's what my car radio is on.
Everybody has a country side to them, as I do.
Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from.
Today the most outlaw thing you can possibly do in Nashville, Tennessee, is play country music.
Lonely as America, a throatpierced sound in the night.
I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
What is this Sweet Home Alabama? You have a baby. In a bar.
I'm really just a country boy.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
I've always had a love of country music.
Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
From the hell of the slave quarters would come some of the Deep South's great gifts to the continent: blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll, as well as the Caribbean-inspired foodways today enshrined in Southern-style barbeque joints from Miami to Anchorage.
Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.
I'm a country boy.
I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened.
I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.
There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.
Southerners...People partial to front porches, peaches, cool breezes, fast horses, sweet tea, bourbon, beautiful women and handsome men!
Nobody out-rednecks the great state of America.
I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?
I rap about Memphis and what a dangerous spot that is.
Janis Joplin is singing with Big Brother in the Panhandle and almost everybody is high and it is a pretty nice Sunday afternoon.
All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.
Oklahoma
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
I love being a part of the country-music community.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
Loony hillbillies destabilized by gross quantities of impure corn liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical sex;
O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.
Charleston, West "by gods" Virginia
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then turn around and come out with 'Feels So Right.' Go out and have fun and be those guys that like to party, then turn around and make every woman in America want Randy Owen.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
When I went to Memphis and Mississippi and Nashville, I learnt the blues is a whole way of life. I don't really have the blues, but I can appreciate the honesty and the simplicity of it.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.