Country Rock is a combination of contemporary Rock music with a more traditional American style of Country. The basic foundation of Country Rock is acoustic rhythm guitars with electric lead guitar work, pedal steel guitar, harmonica, snare-active drumming, close harmony vocals, falsetto notes, and distinctive Country rhythms. The genre originated in the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, spearheaded by Gram Parsons, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, and Eagles, partly as a reaction to the Nashville Sound, which had been perceived as…
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